No it is not "completely, utterly" false. It was, in fact, effectively a half-vote for Trump in this situation, and he did say "effectively". It's just off on magnitude. And. there really was no reason to bring mathematics into it, just arithmetic.
Nixon was pretty damn unpopular by the time they got to impeaching him.
This will not happen until polls say the anti-establishment wing of the Republican party is for it. And since they were either A) dumb enough to fall for Trump's bullshit or B) just wanted to make things explode, all Trump has to do is fool them again in case A), or threaten to blow more shit up for case B).
The congress is almost entirely Party before country and own-ass before Party.
I won't tell you not to hold your breath though, I like the color blue.
Mathematically half-true. You had three options that had three different possible effects. Add a vote to Trump, add a vote to Clinton, or fail to alter the vote total. Choosing the latter has precisely half anti-Trump effectiveness as choosing the second.
Of course, the GP was not voting in a swing state, which means I don't have any criticism for them, as long as it was actually a solid swing state and not a state like MI where it was potentially close enough to matter even though the polls indicated it would not be... one should err on the side of caution in those cases.
A sociopath starts trying to impeach their president before he takes up office
...but a well prepared citizen informs themselves of the mechanics of the law when an incoming president is so likely to commit offenses meriting it. It's called preparation.
It's a waste of time, though... no matter how much they argue, the congress will not have th guts to impeach for even the most blatant offenses, and frankly, we're probably better off with the chaos of Trump than the under-the-radar-crazy of Pence.
I would add, Clinton won the popular vote, so that's a rather large number of people right there.
I don't blame them. We could easily have some analogue to the Flint water crisis replicate itself nationally, given what will likely be done to the EPA and business regulations.
Personally I have given completely up on the low-information voter. They can go screw the country up all they want. I'll leave if/when it looks like they are starting to try to prevent me from doing so and there is a better place to live. As it is, I'm relatively isolated and don't have other people less well off than me close enough to personally feel the hurt that is to follow. So, they can clean up their own mess, or not -- I'll just dodge through the cracks. I do feel sorry for those without that option, but I've never been emotionally connected enough to society to even consider watering the tree of liberty with my own blood... which is sadly the only currency history seems to suggest is effective. I think I can manage to squeeze out the rest of my estimated lifespan in this manner, especially given it is probably irredeemably shorter as of last night.
I think South Park nailed it when Garrison opened a speech::"I hate you all. Seriously I detest every single one of you"... because I've seen that look on Trump's face right before he starts speaking.
The country just elected a guy who used a high-pressure marketing scheme to defraud low-information entrepreneur wannabees out of their rather meager life savings, Tom Vu style. Welcome to the kleptocracy, folks. Investment advice for those who have no conscience about speeding our progress from kleptocracy to military dictatorship: invest in private security firms. Currently they will get a boost protecting money from new legal marijuana farms which by law cannot be deposited in banks for fear of seizure, and has to be kept around as cash, as many states passed legalization. Next step they'll be hired on by the new class of alpha male as a status symbol and later beefed up when they actually need them to protect themselves from their angry impoverished victims. But hey, at least crime will be democratized, among that stratum of society.
Sexism, as generally defined in the literature, can only be applied down a power gradient, and there is still enough of a gradient for that definition to be in play. The correct word in this case would be bias or prejudice.
Also don't fool yourself into thinking there are less than a tiny number of women who were voting solely due to Hillary's gender. They may say that, but it is just a convenient excuse to not get involved in a giant explanation of all the things that made her a vastly better choice for the country than Trump, which anyone who got their news outside the fever swamp would have known about.
A lot of people lost lifespan last night for sure.
America went to the fridge, read the expiration date on the spoiled milk, smelled the spoiled milk, and said "eh, best way to know if it is spoiled is to chug the whole thing down."
My only hope is that Trump opponents realize how fragile our country is, and don't put any additional stress on it while it collapses. This will both hold them blameless as republicanism is exposed as a fraudulent ideology, and increase the changes enough pieces survive so that after this disaster there is still enough left to glue back together.
Consider yourself lucky... hardware interfaces generally tend still be relatively well documented... still not to the standards of yesteryear but a much better sector, because you may be able to tolerate a few mystery registers here and there but you actually need to know what bits raise what gate to get the thing to work. The product documentation I have to work with in the networking sector these days blows chunks. So many "foo enable: enables foo" entries in the manuals it's just enraging, and library APIs seem to have lost any concept of what it means to fully document... nothing to say what's threadsafe or unsafe to acquire with certain locks held... you're lucky to be able to find out whether or not a function may block.
Of course, the vendors all offer "training," but that mostly amounts to a slightly more technical sales presentation.
I seriously doubt a low-order error in the sea level throws the models off to the point of them being worthless.
By that that line of reasoning, we should just throw out all our measuring devices because they all probably have a tiny systematic error built into them, and forget the whole concept of centimeters.
This is also why we, as consumers, are forced to suffer through slipshod products... Only the most desperate, corner-cutting, incautious teams can compete in a market that's all about who released first, and advertising hype. It's the 80's Chinese manufacturing (which eventually improved) problem all over again. Cheapest/fastest to market, made by the hungriest employees most focused on short-term gains, always wins.
Most programmers I know can pick up a new tech in about two weeks and be average at it automatically then gain mastery of it over time. There's no need to have a tutorial because there are plenty out there already.
One thing I'd point out is that older programmers are more used to learning either directly from printed manuals (which used to be thorough) or other print material.
The trend, in contrast, has been towards videos. These can't be easily searched or cross-referenced.
I'd say improving documentation of newer systems to match the quality of documentation older programmers expect would be a great project.
To the point about vernacular, older coders would probably find enjoyable a mildly sarcastic resource that cronicals the evolution of terminology -- especially cases where words flipped meaning entirely (e.g. "foreign code" used to mean calling outside a language. Lately that's now "native code").
D.C. Republicans en masse aren't quite stupid enough to think Trump will be satisfied as a figurehead... based on his history he'll have his arm in the cookie jar elbow deep within the first week in office, and the stank of the resulting scandals from a Trump administration would be ruinous. Now would they have the guts to impeach him? Probably not, but if they did, then they'd be stuck with that cook Pence which would be its own flavor of awful for them,
The pro-trump (or anti-clinton-damn-the-consequences) factions, however, will staple legs on any story they see as beneficial, and there's not much the establishment can do to stop them.
Right now I'm just wondering if this disruption in the media cycle will be enough to unlatch the bomb bay on whatever anti-Trump oppo research was being saved for days before the election date.
By the same token, links could be taken over by bad actors at any time, or might delete content that was relevent to the reason they were linked in the first place.
I kinda wonder if Wikipedia should *only* link to wayback content (just with a one-click option for a live/updated link and maybe an option to perform an edit to update it to a more recent wayback copy), because it is more in the spirit of the wiki audit-trail. Of course, that would probably require adding more resources at wayback.
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No it is not "completely, utterly" false. It was, in fact, effectively a half-vote for Trump in this situation, and he did say "effectively". It's just off on magnitude. And. there really was no reason to bring mathematics into it, just arithmetic.
Mathematics is not confined to boolean logic systems. Neither is electoral politics.
If you're going to be anti-intellectual, I'll speak you you as an anti-intellectual:
Fuck off.
It's utterly hilarious that in thrashing about for some advantage Trump had as an actual candidate, you picked realistic promises.
Given sufficient cause I would expect them to
Nixon was pretty damn unpopular by the time they got to impeaching him.
This will not happen until polls say the anti-establishment wing of the Republican party is for it. And since they were either A) dumb enough to fall for Trump's bullshit or B) just wanted to make things explode, all Trump has to do is fool them again in case A), or threaten to blow more shit up for case B).
The congress is almost entirely Party before country and own-ass before Party.
I won't tell you not to hold your breath though, I like the color blue.
TLDR: "I have no idea how coalitions actually work in the real world, I just expect the real world to do what I want it to."
Mathematically false
Mathematically half-true. You had three options that had three different possible effects. Add a vote to Trump, add a vote to Clinton, or fail to alter the vote total.
Choosing the latter has precisely half anti-Trump effectiveness as choosing the second.
Of course, the GP was not voting in a swing state, which means I don't have any criticism for them, as long as it was actually a solid swing state and not a state like MI where it was potentially close enough to matter even though the polls indicated it would not be... one should err on the side of caution in those cases.
Those people shouldn't be doing that. But then, I have not run into any of these supposed people IRL.
They tried pinning that tail on Donald
That donkey already had that tail. They just tried to get people to realize it.
And this differs from Democrats how?
Democrats usually play to the level where the Republicans have lowered the bar, because they'd get clobbered otherwise.
The difference is who is lowering the bar.
A sociopath starts trying to impeach their president before he takes up office
...but a well prepared citizen informs themselves of the mechanics of the law when an incoming president is so likely to commit offenses meriting it. It's called preparation.
It's a waste of time, though... no matter how much they argue, the congress will not have th guts to impeach for even the most blatant offenses, and frankly, we're probably better off with the chaos of Trump than the under-the-radar-crazy of Pence.
I would add, Clinton won the popular vote, so that's a rather large number of people right there.
I don't blame them. We could easily have some analogue to the Flint water crisis replicate itself nationally, given what will likely be done to the EPA and business regulations.
Personally I have given completely up on the low-information voter. They can go screw the country up all they want. I'll leave if/when it looks like they are starting to try to prevent me from doing so and there is a better place to live. As it is, I'm relatively isolated and don't have other people less well off than me close enough to personally feel the hurt that is to follow. So, they can clean up their own mess, or not -- I'll just dodge through the cracks. I do feel sorry for those without that option, but I've never been emotionally connected enough to society to even consider watering the tree of liberty with my own blood... which is sadly the only currency history seems to suggest is effective. I think I can manage to squeeze out the rest of my estimated lifespan in this manner, especially given it is probably irredeemably shorter as of last night.
I think South Park nailed it when Garrison opened a speech: :"I hate you all. Seriously I detest every single one of you"... because I've seen that look on Trump's face right before he starts speaking.
The country just elected a guy who used a high-pressure marketing scheme to defraud low-information entrepreneur wannabees out of their rather meager life savings, Tom Vu style. Welcome to the kleptocracy, folks. Investment advice for those who have no conscience about speeding our progress from kleptocracy to military dictatorship: invest in private security firms. Currently they will get a boost protecting money from new legal marijuana farms which by law cannot be deposited in banks for fear of seizure, and has to be kept around as cash, as many states passed legalization. Next step they'll be hired on by the new class of alpha male as a status symbol and later beefed up when they actually need them to protect themselves from their angry impoverished victims. But hey, at least crime will be democratized, among that stratum of society.
Sexism, as generally defined in the literature, can only be applied down a power gradient, and there is still enough of a gradient for that definition to be in play. The correct word in this case would be bias or prejudice.
Also don't fool yourself into thinking there are less than a tiny number of women who were voting solely due to Hillary's gender. They may say that, but it is just a convenient excuse to not get involved in a giant explanation of all the things that made her a vastly better choice for the country than Trump, which anyone who got their news outside the fever swamp would have known about.
I thought Trump had a great NRA rating... what's going to stop people from getting guns? JOOC.
Lots of us "Deplorables" are sick and tired of people like you thinking you're so superior to us.
Have fun cleaning up your own mess. I won't be helping you with that.
A lot of people lost lifespan last night for sure.
America went to the fridge, read the expiration date on the spoiled milk, smelled the
spoiled milk, and said "eh, best way to know if it is spoiled is to chug the whole thing down."
My only hope is that Trump opponents realize how fragile our country is, and don't put any
additional stress on it while it collapses. This will both hold them blameless as republicanism
is exposed as a fraudulent ideology, and increase the changes enough pieces survive so
that after this disaster there is still enough left to glue back together.
Consider yourself lucky... hardware interfaces generally tend still be relatively well documented... still not to the standards of yesteryear but a much better sector, because you may be able to tolerate a few mystery registers here and there but you actually need to know what bits raise what gate to get the thing to work. The product documentation I have to work with in the networking sector these days blows chunks. So many "foo enable: enables foo" entries in the manuals it's just enraging, and library APIs seem to have lost any concept of what it means to fully document... nothing to say what's threadsafe or unsafe to acquire with certain locks held... you're lucky to be able to find out whether or not a function may block.
Of course, the vendors all offer "training," but that mostly amounts to a slightly more technical sales presentation.
I seriously doubt a low-order error in the sea level throws the models off to the point of them being worthless.
By that that line of reasoning, we should just throw out all our measuring devices because they all probably have a tiny systematic error built into them, and forget the whole concept of centimeters.
What weights more - a pound of ice or a pound of water?
The correct question is how much mass of ice versus water does it take to weigh a pound.
The answer depends on its altitude and its latitude.
This is also why we, as consumers, are forced to suffer through slipshod products... Only the most desperate, corner-cutting, incautious teams can compete in a market that's all about who released first, and advertising hype. It's the 80's Chinese manufacturing (which eventually improved) problem all over again. Cheapest/fastest to market, made by the hungriest employees most focused on short-term gains, always wins.
Most programmers I know can pick up a new tech in about two weeks and be average at it automatically then gain mastery of it over time. There's no need to have a tutorial because there are plenty out there already.
One thing I'd point out is that older programmers are more used to learning either directly from printed manuals (which used to be thorough) or other print material.
The trend, in contrast, has been towards videos. These can't be easily searched or cross-referenced.
I'd say improving documentation of newer systems to match the quality of documentation older programmers expect would be a great project.
To the point about vernacular, older coders would probably find enjoyable a mildly sarcastic resource that cronicals the evolution of terminology -- especially cases where words flipped meaning entirely (e.g. "foreign code" used to mean calling outside a language. Lately that's now "native code").
Wonder how long it took these AIs to discover XOR.
D.C. Republicans en masse aren't quite stupid enough to think Trump will be satisfied as a figurehead... based on his history he'll have his arm in the cookie jar elbow deep within the first week in office, and the stank of the resulting scandals from a Trump administration would be ruinous. Now would they have the guts to impeach him? Probably not, but if they did, then they'd be stuck with that cook Pence which would be its own flavor of awful for them,
The pro-trump (or anti-clinton-damn-the-consequences) factions, however, will staple legs on any story they see as beneficial, and there's not much the establishment can do to stop them.
Right now I'm just wondering if this disruption in the media cycle will be enough to unlatch the bomb bay on whatever anti-Trump oppo research was being saved for days before the election date.
By the same token, links could be taken over by bad actors at any time, or might delete content that was relevent to the reason they were linked in the first place.
I kinda wonder if Wikipedia should *only* link to wayback content (just with a one-click option for a live/updated link and maybe an option to perform an edit to update it to a more recent wayback copy), because it is more in the spirit of the wiki audit-trail. Of course, that would probably require adding more resources at wayback.