The mainstream media (always reliable) informs me that the Koch brothers are the root of all evil. Thus we can reason that any act of Obama (who the MSM assure me is flawless) which looks evil is really the fault of the Koch brother. Also Bush. QED.
I was never willing to connect the Kinect for my Xbone. But the joke's on me: I've since discovered I don't like playing games with a console controller, so the only reason I'll use my Xbone again is if there's a game that plays best through the Kinect. Still hoping for that.
(I really wanted to like the Forza game, as I'm tired of my PC driving games where I just use the arrow keys, but even after a few hours I couldn't guess what laws of physics the game was modeling. Wow, what a stinker.)
Sure, you have a point, but that's just semantics of "opportunity". Does the rich kid have the same as the poor, the smart kid the same as the stupid? But what's the goal: to have one system with the same rules for all, or to have an equitable outcome from the system?
I fund this characterization amusing, because it's usually the right who says "better justice than fairness, better righteousness than justice".
Vastly fewer troops, though. We used to have a significant presence there after GW1. I'm not blaming Obama in that way yet - the goal was deterrence of the likes of Kim Jong Ill, not so much Putin.
"Big-L Libertarians" are a bunch of crazies, from all over the left-right spectrum (thus the two axes model). But mainstream conservative though is very much aligned with "classic liberalism" now - empowering individual liberty - while the mainstream left seems to value doing things for the benefit of the collective, "collective rights" (fuck you Justice Breyer, and the like. So "small-L libertarians", sure.
But that's just another way of saying "equality of opportunity vs equality of outcome".
The objective of the war was to destroy Iraq's WMDs. The things you listed were made-up-after-the-fact justifications.
That was never the goal. That was the BS propaganda. Don't believe everything^W anything you see on the news. We didn't even hear the term "WMD" until Blair said that the UK wouldn't join us without a UN mandate.
The UN resolution that served as the peace treaty that ended the first Gulf War included a requirement that Saddam destroy all his WMDs and provide proof that he had done so. That proof hadn't been provided, so, bingo, pretext for war. Whether Iraq actually had any WMDs was only relevant to ginning up emotional support: the propaganda mill. It was never actually important.
BTW, it's no more important that Iraq have pro-American policies than that France does. Democracies are more open to trade and less open to war, so we benefit regardless. It's far easier for a dictator to find purely personal gain in expanding his territory regardless of sanctions, as we see in Ukraine now, for example.
When the number was 6 million, the breakdown was roughly 3 million new on Medicaid, 2 million thanks to the "stay on your parents plan till 25" stuff, 1 million new exchange plans (and many, many million who lost their company plans).
The major benefits seen so far could have been accomplished without the exchanges - just expand Medicaid and the "still a child at 25" thing would have gotten us 80% of the benefit without the downside of costing so many their company plans.
But then, the goal was never to help insure people. In most states, the exchanges have cost far more to set up than in would have cost to simply provide charity for everyone who managed to sign up! Charity doesn't require a bill too long for anyone to read before voting on it.
A conservative is incapable of understanding what racism means. Seriously. Ask them to define it and they get a convoluted bundle of CRAP.
Conservative: racism is discriminating based on race. For example, college admissions are racist if they use different requirements for different races.
Liberal: racism is the absence of penalizing whites. For example, college admissions aren't racist as long as they penalizes whites; if they penalize Asians more than whites, that's still not racism, since whites are still penalized in some way.
Both are simple: one seeks equality at the start of the process, the other equality at the end of the process, and both think the other hates equality, like almost everything else in the conservative/liberal divide.
The Iraq war achieved all of it's objectives: * Got our troops out of Kuwait, and anywhere else too close to Mecca * Removed Saddam, both ending his destabilizing influence in the region, and showing other tin-pot dictators that the US should be feared. * Allowed Iraq to achieve democracy (the Iraqis did the hard part, of course, but the removal of the dictator was the needed first step.
Arguably, Iraqi democracy inspired the Arab Spring - it certainly played a role. Sounds like the war was a good idea to me: we achieved all of our objectives. Did you confuse the propaganda reasons for the war with the actual goals?
Hahaha. The old "I'm right, and any argument you make against me is flawed because you're wrong, and thus none of your data or arguments are trustworthy" rhetoric. Begging the question while poisoning the well.
Gold's value as an industrial metal is quite small. The features you mention make it a good choice for specie-based currency. Having value in that it's well suited for use as currency is not intrinsic value, it's value-as-currency.
The have's think they work hard, so they antagonize the have-not's who question the system. They convince themselves that the have-not's are just "lazy"
That's the opposite of strong values: that's hypocrisy. Those with a strong moral compass and strong values recognize hard work wherever they find it. Those who lucked into money don't, and are thus mistaken about "lazy".
The problem you complain about stems from the lack of moral commitment, not an excess of it.
I've never met anyone who falls into the "class divide" mindset/trap you mention who wasn't themselves "lazy". It's excuse-making, or worse it's a line swallowed whole from others' excuse making.
put the CSR on a USB stick, plug it in, and sign it from that machine. In this way you never have to worry about external threats potentially gaining access to your private key
Ever heard of Stuxnet? Connecting via sneakernet is much like connecting via a normal network: you need the machine itself to be secure. Sure, limiting connectivity limits attack vectors, and that helps. But it won't help against an attacker who understands your architecture, and targets you specifically.
I don't mind the model of "extended free trial, then you have to subscribe", in fact I think that's great. What I fund scummy is when you're stuck with all the microtransactions, and can't just subscribe to be free of them.
There's a world of difference though between "pay for content" and "pay to win". For years, Turbine was a shining example of doing it right in DDO (and probably LOTR online), where the free-to-pay portion was most of the low-level content and some of the mid-high level content, and mostly you paid to unlock new quest lines (permanently, for all characters on your account) and new race/class options (again, permanently). Sure, you couldn't get to max level on the free content alone (well, not in any sane way), but it was far more than just a limited trial. You could play for weeks and get a real feel for whether it was worth subscribing, or pay per quest line if your didn't want to subscribe. Pay-for-content is good.
Now it's different (not sure what changed in corporate management), and you can just buy your character up to max level (which is bizarre for an MMO without much endgame). It has gradually become pay-to-win.
There are a bunch of smaller Korean MMOs focused on PvP with pay-to-win mechanics where a duel between high-level characters can basically go on until one player runs out of cash. Pay-to-win is somewhat scummy, but if you're playing with friends it really doesn't matter,
The third model, and the sleaziest one, is "pay-to-progress", where you get one "turn" per day, but can buy turns. I see those games as just scams, but at least they're upfront about it.
When I was young, we had a pre-printed pad on the fridge for keeping track of chores and errand and whatnot. It was pre-printed: Things to remember: 1. The Alamo 2. _________________ 3. _________________ 4. _________________ (etc).
But seriously, we really didn't want to get involved in WWII until it was far too late. Prevention is simply cheaper than emergency care, even in world politics. But it's been long enough that we've forgotten now, and while we'll save a few bucks gutting our military, it will cost us more if there's a major war in Asia, even if we don't get involved directly, when the global economy craters for a decade.
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The mainstream media (always reliable) informs me that the Koch brothers are the root of all evil. Thus we can reason that any act of Obama (who the MSM assure me is flawless) which looks evil is really the fault of the Koch brother. Also Bush. QED.
WTF? Are you even responding to the right post?
I was never willing to connect the Kinect for my Xbone. But the joke's on me: I've since discovered I don't like playing games with a console controller, so the only reason I'll use my Xbone again is if there's a game that plays best through the Kinect. Still hoping for that.
(I really wanted to like the Forza game, as I'm tired of my PC driving games where I just use the arrow keys, but even after a few hours I couldn't guess what laws of physics the game was modeling. Wow, what a stinker.)
Sure, you have a point, but that's just semantics of "opportunity". Does the rich kid have the same as the poor, the smart kid the same as the stupid? But what's the goal: to have one system with the same rules for all, or to have an equitable outcome from the system?
I fund this characterization amusing, because it's usually the right who says "better justice than fairness, better righteousness than justice".
Saddam had elections - he received 100% of the vote with 100% voter turnout! Putin's still working towards that goal.
Vastly fewer troops, though. We used to have a significant presence there after GW1. I'm not blaming Obama in that way yet - the goal was deterrence of the likes of Kim Jong Ill, not so much Putin.
"Big-L Libertarians" are a bunch of crazies, from all over the left-right spectrum (thus the two axes model). But mainstream conservative though is very much aligned with "classic liberalism" now - empowering individual liberty - while the mainstream left seems to value doing things for the benefit of the collective, "collective rights" (fuck you Justice Breyer, and the like. So "small-L libertarians", sure.
But that's just another way of saying "equality of opportunity vs equality of outcome".
The objective of the war was to destroy Iraq's WMDs. The things you listed were made-up-after-the-fact justifications.
That was never the goal. That was the BS propaganda. Don't believe everything^W anything you see on the news. We didn't even hear the term "WMD" until Blair said that the UK wouldn't join us without a UN mandate.
The UN resolution that served as the peace treaty that ended the first Gulf War included a requirement that Saddam destroy all his WMDs and provide proof that he had done so. That proof hadn't been provided, so, bingo, pretext for war. Whether Iraq actually had any WMDs was only relevant to ginning up emotional support: the propaganda mill. It was never actually important.
BTW, it's no more important that Iraq have pro-American policies than that France does. Democracies are more open to trade and less open to war, so we benefit regardless. It's far easier for a dictator to find purely personal gain in expanding his territory regardless of sanctions, as we see in Ukraine now, for example.
What a lot of crap.
When the number was 6 million, the breakdown was roughly 3 million new on Medicaid, 2 million thanks to the "stay on your parents plan till 25" stuff, 1 million new exchange plans (and many, many million who lost their company plans).
The major benefits seen so far could have been accomplished without the exchanges - just expand Medicaid and the "still a child at 25" thing would have gotten us 80% of the benefit without the downside of costing so many their company plans.
But then, the goal was never to help insure people. In most states, the exchanges have cost far more to set up than in would have cost to simply provide charity for everyone who managed to sign up! Charity doesn't require a bill too long for anyone to read before voting on it.
When government saves a life, Jesus punches a dolphin in the gills.
So does he ask his father to put the gills on the dolphin first, or how does that work?
Duh, they don't have gills now. When Jesus punches you, you stay punched. Poor dolphins have to come to the surface to breath now - thanks Obama!
A conservative is incapable of understanding what racism means. Seriously. Ask them to define it and they get a convoluted bundle of CRAP.
Conservative: racism is discriminating based on race. For example, college admissions are racist if they use different requirements for different races.
Liberal: racism is the absence of penalizing whites. For example, college admissions aren't racist as long as they penalizes whites; if they penalize Asians more than whites, that's still not racism, since whites are still penalized in some way.
Both are simple: one seeks equality at the start of the process, the other equality at the end of the process, and both think the other hates equality, like almost everything else in the conservative/liberal divide.
The NSA had a great track record of security and (internal) privacy while she was national security advisor. All the leaks happened after she left.
Do you think they wanted her for ethical advice?
The Iraq war achieved all of it's objectives:
* Got our troops out of Kuwait, and anywhere else too close to Mecca
* Removed Saddam, both ending his destabilizing influence in the region, and showing other tin-pot dictators that the US should be feared.
* Allowed Iraq to achieve democracy (the Iraqis did the hard part, of course, but the removal of the dictator was the needed first step.
Arguably, Iraqi democracy inspired the Arab Spring - it certainly played a role. Sounds like the war was a good idea to me: we achieved all of our objectives. Did you confuse the propaganda reasons for the war with the actual goals?
Indeed. The harshest insults don't need any emotion or colorful language, they're simply, obviously, true.
Hahaha. The old "I'm right, and any argument you make against me is flawed because you're wrong, and thus none of your data or arguments are trustworthy" rhetoric. Begging the question while poisoning the well.
Not even a little. Modern malware is largely OS indifferent. Windows XP had security issues, but that's a loooong time ago.
Did you reply to the right post?
Gold's value as an industrial metal is quite small. The features you mention make it a good choice for specie-based currency. Having value in that it's well suited for use as currency is not intrinsic value, it's value-as-currency.
The have's think they work hard, so they antagonize the have-not's who question the system. They convince themselves that the have-not's are just "lazy"
That's the opposite of strong values: that's hypocrisy. Those with a strong moral compass and strong values recognize hard work wherever they find it. Those who lucked into money don't, and are thus mistaken about "lazy".
The problem you complain about stems from the lack of moral commitment, not an excess of it.
I've never met anyone who falls into the "class divide" mindset/trap you mention who wasn't themselves "lazy". It's excuse-making, or worse it's a line swallowed whole from others' excuse making.
He didn't even call the Open SSL developers any names or anything and everything in the post was reasonable. I hope he isn't sick or something.
"OpenSSL is not developed by a responsible team."
Theo the Raanter is fine. Personal abuse and profanity is just noise. This was a truly cutting comment.
put the CSR on a USB stick, plug it in, and sign it from that machine. In this way you never have to worry about external threats potentially gaining access to your private key
Ever heard of Stuxnet? Connecting via sneakernet is much like connecting via a normal network: you need the machine itself to be secure. Sure, limiting connectivity limits attack vectors, and that helps. But it won't help against an attacker who understands your architecture, and targets you specifically.
You're never invincible. Don't get cocky, kid.
I don't mind the model of "extended free trial, then you have to subscribe", in fact I think that's great. What I fund scummy is when you're stuck with all the microtransactions, and can't just subscribe to be free of them.
There's a world of difference though between "pay for content" and "pay to win". For years, Turbine was a shining example of doing it right in DDO (and probably LOTR online), where the free-to-pay portion was most of the low-level content and some of the mid-high level content, and mostly you paid to unlock new quest lines (permanently, for all characters on your account) and new race/class options (again, permanently). Sure, you couldn't get to max level on the free content alone (well, not in any sane way), but it was far more than just a limited trial. You could play for weeks and get a real feel for whether it was worth subscribing, or pay per quest line if your didn't want to subscribe. Pay-for-content is good.
Now it's different (not sure what changed in corporate management), and you can just buy your character up to max level (which is bizarre for an MMO without much endgame). It has gradually become pay-to-win.
There are a bunch of smaller Korean MMOs focused on PvP with pay-to-win mechanics where a duel between high-level characters can basically go on until one player runs out of cash. Pay-to-win is somewhat scummy, but if you're playing with friends it really doesn't matter,
The third model, and the sleaziest one, is "pay-to-progress", where you get one "turn" per day, but can buy turns. I see those games as just scams, but at least they're upfront about it.
Yes. Yes it is. Bad component design in cars is shockingly common (as long as the flaws aren't evident in the first few months).
When I was young, we had a pre-printed pad on the fridge for keeping track of chores and errand and whatnot. It was pre-printed:
Things to remember:
1. The Alamo
2. _________________
3. _________________
4. _________________
(etc).
But seriously, we really didn't want to get involved in WWII until it was far too late. Prevention is simply cheaper than emergency care, even in world politics. But it's been long enough that we've forgotten now, and while we'll save a few bucks gutting our military, it will cost us more if there's a major war in Asia, even if we don't get involved directly, when the global economy craters for a decade.