it is exceedingly difficult to seize a person's home
As it should be...
Now David might be a slime ball, but you don't want a situation where it is really easy to take someone's home.
A man's home is his castle, everyone needs a place to live, regardless of any other considerations.
The real fault lies in the money going into David's personal checking account, that shouldn't have been allowed to happen. Dollar amounts of this size should be in a business account with controls on how much can be taken out without 2 signatures.
I would love if you were right, but unfortunately I think you are not. As mentioned before, smartphone updates are being delayed or denied by carriers, and that is not illegal nor have I heard of any serious intention of making it so.
Just because it has been that way in the past doesn't mean it won't change going forward.
Like I said, I have a longer view than 5 minutes from now. The world is changing and slowly people who are not "techies" are waking up to the security concerns of unpatched systems. One of these days, maybe 5 years from now, maybe 15... they'll change the rules to enforce security on the Internet.
The only real way to secure the Internet is to control what connects to it. The days of being online and anonymous (at least to the Government) will end, sooner or later. They will use who controls the pipes to enforce this.
Right now, I have three choices for high speed Internet in my home. Verizon FIOS, AT&T Fiber, and Time Warner Cable. Do you SERIOUSLY not believe those three companies would refuse to play ball with the US Government if ordered to do so by law?
You are claiming that it will be illegal to connect an unpatched computer to the internet in the future, but you apparently are too stupid to realize that patching the computer usually involves connecting it to the internet.
The grand irony is that while you call me an idiot, you don't even understand that you're actually the fool.
Clearly an "unpatched" computer will try and connect, be blocked by the ISP, and directed to run Windows Update (or whatever is similar).
Of course the ISP is going to allow Windows Update to run.
I have a 3,800 sqft house, 5 people live here, and I live in Texas where we use AC 9 months out of the year...
I have gas heat as well, gas hot water, gas cooking, gas clothes drying, etc.
The power bill is $100 in December and $400 in summer, it averages about $250 year round. It is mostly air conditioning, but it used to be much worse before I replaced the HVAC 3 years ago. I had a few $700 bills in August, but the new HVAC fixed those.
Yes and in the 18th century the required political skills were a lot different than today. It's why the rise of the professional politician emerged, because experience has value.
Then you are completely and totally brainwashed and you're beyond hope...
You will always be a subject to those in power because you are unable to think for yourself.
Bernie has problems with taxes, free everything, and he wouldn't be tough on foreign policy.
There are parts of Bernie I like and parts of Trump I like. There isn't ANYTHING about Hillary that I like.
For example, I'm all for single-payer health care. But I'm also for redoing our trade deals and standing up to the bullies of the world and reminding them that we are not a kitty cat.
I think most people bought a new computer when a new version of Windows came out, or perhaps a year or so AFTER a new version of Windows came out.
With Microsoft offering free upgrades to Windows 10, I think that took a lot of wind out of the PC sales... (see what I did there?)
It is a shame that MS can't find a middle ground between "free" and "$119" for the price of Windows. If they charged $29 to upgrade, some people would pay it, some would not, and some would buy a new computer.
Side note: The days of having just 1 computer for many people are over. The cost to upgrade Windows on multiple computers is nuts for 1 person.
I sub to Office 365 because it gives me 5 installs of Office (really 10, they are pretty flexiable) for $70 a year.
That price also includes 5 OneDrive accounts, Skype minutes, and more...
If they raised the price to $120 a year and let me install Windows onto 5 (or really 10) computers, I'd probably take them up on that. That would be $10 per year, per computer, which I'd be comfortable with if it let me install whatever version of Windows I wanted.
Side note 2: Microsoft, let people install what they want. 99.9% of everyone will take the latest version, but there ARE reasons to have 1 machine on something older.
I would tend to agree, and I would much prefer him over Hillary Clinton...
Reality is somewhere in between Trump and Sanders, I'd love to see the two of them together.
Clinton is just not helpful to the situation, nothing would change under her, she has no leadership, no vision, nothing. Just more gridlock, more debt, more suffering...
we should all at least agree the the top job should be filled by someone who has at least some political experience.
No, we shouldn't...
I frankly think we need less of that, not more of it...
Now, this doesn't mean we need a bunch of idiots... strong interpersonal skills are important, as well as an eye and ear for history, but political experience is not required.
When our government was formed, the whole idea was to have citizen legislators...
People were not supposed to make politics a career... You were supposed to go serve for a bit, then go home back to the private sector.
Now everyone thinks you have to do this for 30 years before you're "ready". So you have a situation where Clinton has been in government for more than 3 decades...
She is so completely out of touch with the average person and so completely absorbed into the "bought and paid for" system that she cannot help the average person even if she wanted to.
At least Trump has a chance to. Do I think he is the best man for the job? No, not at all. But he is what we have to work with because too many people respond to what he says rather than reason and logic.
People are WAY too emotional, it will be our undoing.:(
Assuming you're right about that, what makes you think Trump will improve the situation?
Improve? He might... or might make it worse, or might not be a change at all...
But I know that if we elect another RNC or DNC "chosen one" that we'll get more and more of the same...
I'm so sick of it that I'm willing to take the chance. The more the media drones on about "how risky Trump is", the more I want him because they don't want their apple cart upset either.
I miss Walter Cronkite... I SO wish he was still at the anchor desk and that he could have an hour with Trump... The "news" has become an entertainment/control product, far removed from the old days of "just the facts".
Even if he doesn't simply set up his own gravy train
I fully support paying the President $50 million a year and each person in Congress $5 million a year. You would never hire a CEO of a major company and pay them $400K, it is silly. You work for who pays you, and right now a person in Congress gets about $200K from the public and millions from private donors. If the public paid them millions, they would become much more expensive to bribe and would be more inclined to work for who is paying them, the public.
Some public sector paychecks are equally too low and don't reflect the value of qualified people for those roles. When the head of the SEC is paid 3% of what the people who he is supposed to supervise are paid, you'll never get the right person for that job.
what specific actions do you think he will take to help
He will break with 70 years of assumed policy and take us in a new direction. That could be good or bad, but I'm willing to find out. In 6 months, we'll find out if enough Americans want to take that journey or not.
There's a reason even his own party want nothing to do with him, and it's not because he's been winning.
Yea, they are afraid he'll upset their gravy train...
The two parties are more interested in making sure it stays the way it is, than actually doing anything useful. Trump is a threat to that.
Many Republicans would rather see a Democrat elected who is bought and paid for and will do what she is told, rather than see someone actually change anything.
I don't know if the Donald is being genuine or just opportunistic, but his messages about loss of American jobs, unfair trade agreements, and corporate behavior is why so many people will put up with his other flaws.
This, a thousand times this...
Maybe Trump will do something, maybe he won't. I have no idea. But I know for darn sure Clinton won't, she is bought and paid for...
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it is exceedingly difficult to seize a person's home
As it should be...
Now David might be a slime ball, but you don't want a situation where it is really easy to take someone's home.
A man's home is his castle, everyone needs a place to live, regardless of any other considerations.
The real fault lies in the money going into David's personal checking account, that shouldn't have been allowed to happen. Dollar amounts of this size should be in a business account with controls on how much can be taken out without 2 signatures.
I would love if you were right, but unfortunately I think you are not. As mentioned before, smartphone updates are being delayed or denied by carriers, and that is not illegal nor have I heard of any serious intention of making it so.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
Just because it has been that way in the past doesn't mean it won't change going forward.
Like I said, I have a longer view than 5 minutes from now. The world is changing and slowly people who are not "techies" are waking up to the security concerns of unpatched systems. One of these days, maybe 5 years from now, maybe 15... they'll change the rules to enforce security on the Internet.
The only real way to secure the Internet is to control what connects to it. The days of being online and anonymous (at least to the Government) will end, sooner or later. They will use who controls the pipes to enforce this.
Right now, I have three choices for high speed Internet in my home. Verizon FIOS, AT&T Fiber, and Time Warner Cable. Do you SERIOUSLY not believe those three companies would refuse to play ball with the US Government if ordered to do so by law?
You are claiming that it will be illegal to connect an unpatched computer to the internet in the future, but you apparently are too stupid to realize that patching the computer usually involves connecting it to the internet.
The grand irony is that while you call me an idiot, you don't even understand that you're actually the fool.
Clearly an "unpatched" computer will try and connect, be blocked by the ISP, and directed to run Windows Update (or whatever is similar).
Of course the ISP is going to allow Windows Update to run.
I have a 3,800 sqft house, 5 people live here, and I live in Texas where we use AC 9 months out of the year...
I have gas heat as well, gas hot water, gas cooking, gas clothes drying, etc.
The power bill is $100 in December and $400 in summer, it averages about $250 year round. It is mostly air conditioning, but it used to be much worse before I replaced the HVAC 3 years ago. I had a few $700 bills in August, but the new HVAC fixed those.
That does not include the price of natural gas.
One source says that, a dozen more say 30+ cents, including Wikipedia which is sourced...
No, I want energy to be handled in a manner that reflects true costs, and encourages energy storage.
Good. Luck. With. That.
No one in Germany has a $1200 power bill.
That is actually likely a false statement. Someone in Germany does. YOU might not, but someone does.
I told you that now a few dozen times.
You can tell me anything you like, I have stopped listening to you because I don't believe you know what you're talking about.
You aren't going to convince me otherwise, too many of your prior posts have been completely and totally wrong.
Yes and in the 18th century the required political skills were a lot different than today. It's why the rise of the professional politician emerged, because experience has value.
Then you are completely and totally brainwashed and you're beyond hope...
You will always be a subject to those in power because you are unable to think for yourself.
Which country are you living in? The US averages $0.10/KWH and Germany Averages $0.15/KWH.
No it doesn't...
The US averages 12 cents per KWh.
Germany averages 33 cents per KWh.
A dozen different web sites support that, from Wikipedia on down.
As others pointed out Germany doesn't pay 3 times what we pay in the USA but they do pay a bit more.
Sigh... yes they do, multiple web sites on the Internet over and over say they do...
A few people on a message board trying to defend it doesn't make it so...
Average US price per KWh is 12 cents.
Average German price per KWh is 33 cents.
That is triple, the math doesn't lie...
Dumbshit, German users don't pay three times the price of energy.
Wanna bet?
https://www.ovoenergy.com/guid...
Germany - 35 cents per KWh
US - 12 cents per KWh
So you want everyone to pay three times the going rate for power? Or better yet, five times?
Germany will bankrupt itself trying to do this.
But at what price? Germany pays three times the price for power that the US does.
I don't really want a $1,200 power bill, thank you very much.
Bernie has problems with taxes, free everything, and he wouldn't be tough on foreign policy.
There are parts of Bernie I like and parts of Trump I like. There isn't ANYTHING about Hillary that I like.
For example, I'm all for single-payer health care. But I'm also for redoing our trade deals and standing up to the bullies of the world and reminding them that we are not a kitty cat.
I think most people bought a new computer when a new version of Windows came out, or perhaps a year or so AFTER a new version of Windows came out.
With Microsoft offering free upgrades to Windows 10, I think that took a lot of wind out of the PC sales... (see what I did there?)
It is a shame that MS can't find a middle ground between "free" and "$119" for the price of Windows. If they charged $29 to upgrade, some people would pay it, some would not, and some would buy a new computer.
Side note: The days of having just 1 computer for many people are over. The cost to upgrade Windows on multiple computers is nuts for 1 person.
I sub to Office 365 because it gives me 5 installs of Office (really 10, they are pretty flexiable) for $70 a year.
That price also includes 5 OneDrive accounts, Skype minutes, and more...
If they raised the price to $120 a year and let me install Windows onto 5 (or really 10) computers, I'd probably take them up on that. That would be $10 per year, per computer, which I'd be comfortable with if it let me install whatever version of Windows I wanted.
Side note 2: Microsoft, let people install what they want. 99.9% of everyone will take the latest version, but there ARE reasons to have 1 machine on something older.
Oh, for some mod points....
Oh my lord... quoted for so much truths! :)
Sanders does not appear to have been bought.
I would tend to agree, and I would much prefer him over Hillary Clinton...
Reality is somewhere in between Trump and Sanders, I'd love to see the two of them together.
Clinton is just not helpful to the situation, nothing would change under her, she has no leadership, no vision, nothing. Just more gridlock, more debt, more suffering...
Those are different, they are technical skills.
A politician doesn't need to have been one before to have the skills for the job.
Running a large company, managing thousands of employees, etc. all develop the sorts of skills needed to be a leader.
What is needed is leadership, not "inside politics for 30 years".
George Washington was a General, a businessman, not a politician...
Say what you will, but I have NEVER seen pictures after a rollover crash like this with the passenger compartment so remarkably intact.
I don't care about the car, I care about the people inside it.
I've seen video of a Mercedes S-class wreck at 130 mph on the autobahn, it rolled three times.
The driver got out and walked away.
we should all at least agree the the top job should be filled by someone who has at least some political experience.
No, we shouldn't...
I frankly think we need less of that, not more of it...
Now, this doesn't mean we need a bunch of idiots... strong interpersonal skills are important, as well as an eye and ear for history, but political experience is not required.
When our government was formed, the whole idea was to have citizen legislators...
People were not supposed to make politics a career... You were supposed to go serve for a bit, then go home back to the private sector.
Now everyone thinks you have to do this for 30 years before you're "ready". So you have a situation where Clinton has been in government for more than 3 decades...
She is so completely out of touch with the average person and so completely absorbed into the "bought and paid for" system that she cannot help the average person even if she wanted to.
At least Trump has a chance to. Do I think he is the best man for the job? No, not at all. But he is what we have to work with because too many people respond to what he says rather than reason and logic.
People are WAY too emotional, it will be our undoing. :(
Assuming you're right about that, what makes you think Trump will improve the situation?
Improve? He might... or might make it worse, or might not be a change at all...
But I know that if we elect another RNC or DNC "chosen one" that we'll get more and more of the same...
I'm so sick of it that I'm willing to take the chance. The more the media drones on about "how risky Trump is", the more I want him because they don't want their apple cart upset either.
I miss Walter Cronkite... I SO wish he was still at the anchor desk and that he could have an hour with Trump... The "news" has become an entertainment/control product, far removed from the old days of "just the facts".
Even if he doesn't simply set up his own gravy train
I fully support paying the President $50 million a year and each person in Congress $5 million a year. You would never hire a CEO of a major company and pay them $400K, it is silly. You work for who pays you, and right now a person in Congress gets about $200K from the public and millions from private donors. If the public paid them millions, they would become much more expensive to bribe and would be more inclined to work for who is paying them, the public.
Some public sector paychecks are equally too low and don't reflect the value of qualified people for those roles. When the head of the SEC is paid 3% of what the people who he is supposed to supervise are paid, you'll never get the right person for that job.
what specific actions do you think he will take to help
He will break with 70 years of assumed policy and take us in a new direction. That could be good or bad, but I'm willing to find out. In 6 months, we'll find out if enough Americans want to take that journey or not.
There's a reason even his own party want nothing to do with him, and it's not because he's been winning.
Yea, they are afraid he'll upset their gravy train...
The two parties are more interested in making sure it stays the way it is, than actually doing anything useful. Trump is a threat to that.
Many Republicans would rather see a Democrat elected who is bought and paid for and will do what she is told, rather than see someone actually change anything.
500+ companies... half with his name on them...
4 bankrupties out of all of that...
How sure are you of your information?
I don't know if the Donald is being genuine or just opportunistic, but his messages about loss of American jobs, unfair trade agreements, and corporate behavior is why so many people will put up with his other flaws.
This, a thousand times this...
Maybe Trump will do something, maybe he won't. I have no idea. But I know for darn sure Clinton won't, she is bought and paid for...