... and sadly, the 'other partys' plan to "fix climate change" was to sell "carbon credits" to big polluters, so they could pollute even more, but pay for the privilege.
Funny you should mention that, I just heard a story on NPR the other day about how the city of Memphis sold its public parks to a private group, so they could legally remove the Confederate statues.
It's their platform, and you are not directly paying to access it.
I can buy that mentality from the anti-Net Neutrality set, who believe the internet is a place for private businesses to engage in the private exchange of monies for private purposes and profit.
What blows my mind is when I hear some leftists make this argument (and they do, quite often, especially in regards to the censorship of speech they find unfavorable), then claim to believe that privately-owned service providers do not have a right to throttle or limit access to content, despite being engaged in a similar form of business, because they believe the internet is a public utility.
Like, be consistent with your values or shut the fuck up.
Generally speaking, those "searching for unicorns" requirements are all about giving corporations an excuse to replace American workers with H1-B foreigners for pennies on the dollar.
Can you run an app in an app? You bet your ass you can - hell, with a virtualization app like VirtualBox, you can run a whole operating system and corresponding apps... within an app!
Seriously, though, "Web browsers aren't apps" is the worst semantic argument I've seen in a long time.
So, what your saying is that Uber riders have to pay more, and my taxes no longer subsidize their drivers (through food stamps, etc.)? The free market gets to work?
A podcast client is a bit more than a web browser with RSS support...They want to be able to stream or download it. They want to be able to speed up / slow down playback. They want to support both audio and video podcasts. They want cross-device placement/bookmark sync. They want intelligent downloading so they don't blow their data caps (particularly with cell data).
Um, doesn't Chrome do pretty much all of that?
Stream or download? check.
Change playback rate? can be accomplished via html code or in-app (like a media player)
Audio and video? Yup, web browsers do that.
Cross-device bookmark sync? Hello, Google!
Intelligent Downloading? Again, can be handled by either the browser or OS, depending.
That's a bit more than just a web browser with RSS support.
Or... it's exactly what modern web browsers do. Changing playback rate is about the only questionable thing there.
The bottom line is that Russia meddled to help Trump beat Clinton. There is plenty of evidence that isn't even disputed by the conservative wing of the media, or the GOP for that matter.
Clearly, you are a troll that is either delusional or in it for lulz. Either way, generally a drag on intelligent conversation and debate.
here's the last comment riley made referring to Fox news, before this one:
Comment Fox News is a beacon of journalistic integrity?? (Score 4, Insightful) 104 by riley on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @12:30AM (#55982167) Attached to: Rupert Murdoch Pushes Facebook To Pay For News To Guarantee Quality
And we are supposed to believe that the owner of Fox News is the guardian of quality information presented in an unbiased format? Really?
I'm sorry, who's a delusional troll? My guess would be the one with inconsistent positions.
Funny how concepts like States' Rights lose their importance when you don't like what the States are doing - but are a useful cover when you want to, say, destroy unions - or pander to racist voters.
... or force them to adhere to certain fuel economy standards...
"It's only a problem when I disagree with the action."
Liberal here. Willing to agree to voter ID laws under 3 conditions:
1. Election days are national holidays. 2. Same day registration everywhere. 3. The ID is 100% free.
None of these compromise the security you are looking for. However, no conservative will agree because they do prevent actual voters from being disenfranchised, which is actually what they want.
Prove me wrong.
I'm a conservative in the Libertarian sense, and I think that's exactly how federal elections should function. Sure beats spending millions of dollars on useless "security" programs that do nothing but line someone's pockets with tax dollars.
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It sounds like you're too self-centered to care about anybody but yourself (and your precious guns).
People can care about more than one thing, you know.
... and sadly, the 'other partys' plan to "fix climate change" was to sell "carbon credits" to big polluters, so they could pollute even more, but pay for the privilege.
I, too, would like to visit this alternate Earth.
Basically a more advanced metal detector.
... aaaand now I'm trying to figure out how to rig it for finding gold nuggets in the earth...
I only put stickers on my honeypot.
Funny you should mention that, I just heard a story on NPR the other day about how the city of Memphis sold its public parks to a private group, so they could legally remove the Confederate statues.
It's their platform, and you are not directly paying to access it.
I can buy that mentality from the anti-Net Neutrality set, who believe the internet is a place for private businesses to engage in the private exchange of monies for private purposes and profit.
What blows my mind is when I hear some leftists make this argument (and they do, quite often, especially in regards to the censorship of speech they find unfavorable), then claim to believe that privately-owned service providers do not have a right to throttle or limit access to content, despite being engaged in a similar form of business, because they believe the internet is a public utility.
Like, be consistent with your values or shut the fuck up.
Generally speaking, those "searching for unicorns" requirements are all about giving corporations an excuse to replace American workers with H1-B foreigners for pennies on the dollar.
Seems legit, lol
Thanks for the clarification, when you put it that way it does seem like web browsers wouldn't be the appropriate software for such practices.
"app" is short for "application."
Literally all software is, by definition, an app.
Can you run an app in an app? You bet your ass you can - hell, with a virtualization app like VirtualBox, you can run a whole operating system and corresponding apps... within an app!
Seriously, though, "Web browsers aren't apps" is the worst semantic argument I've seen in a long time.
So, what your saying is that Uber riders have to pay more, and my taxes no longer subsidize their drivers (through food stamps, etc.)? The free market gets to work?
My kingdom for a mod point.
A podcast client is a bit more than a web browser with RSS support...They want to be able to stream or download it. They want to be able to speed up / slow down playback. They want to support both audio and video podcasts. They want cross-device placement/bookmark sync. They want intelligent downloading so they don't blow their data caps (particularly with cell data).
Um, doesn't Chrome do pretty much all of that?
Stream or download? check.
Change playback rate? can be accomplished via html code or in-app (like a media player)
Audio and video? Yup, web browsers do that.
Cross-device bookmark sync? Hello, Google!
Intelligent Downloading? Again, can be handled by either the browser or OS, depending.
That's a bit more than just a web browser with RSS support.
Or... it's exactly what modern web browsers do. Changing playback rate is about the only questionable thing there.
Fox News reports it differently.
The bottom line is that Russia meddled to help Trump beat Clinton. There is plenty of evidence that isn't even disputed by the conservative wing of the media, or the GOP for that matter.
Clearly, you are a troll that is either delusional or in it for lulz. Either way, generally a drag on intelligent conversation and debate.
here's the last comment riley made referring to Fox news, before this one:
Comment Fox News is a beacon of journalistic integrity?? (Score 4, Insightful) 104
by riley on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @12:30AM (#55982167) Attached to: Rupert Murdoch Pushes Facebook To Pay For News To Guarantee Quality
And we are supposed to believe that the owner of Fox News is the guardian of quality information presented in an unbiased format? Really?
I'm sorry, who's a delusional troll? My guess would be the one with inconsistent positions.
The elephant in the room is that politicians aren't representing the will of the electorate.
Understatement of the century, Bruh.
Yeah, but according to some, a simple common sense solution like this is apparently "racist" these days.......
The irony being, of course, that claiming a certain race is incapable of getting a photo ID is, in itself, racist.
The entire Russian operation, mostly after the election, was to sow discord and distrust
Judging by this conversation, I'd say they succeeded.
Therein lies the rub, doesn't it?
On the one hand, anonymous voting protects the voter from retaliation, but puts the entire process at risk of compromise.
"Named voting," conversely, puts the voter at risk but does a lot to secure the process.
Seems like paper ballots + presenting gov't issued photo ID to receive said ballot is a much better process in both ways.
Seriously?
Have you reported them to the authorities? Pretty sure such electoral subversion is a felony.
One needs only to look 2016 election when we should have Hillary but instead got TRUMP.
Except the fact that there's zero evidence that the Russians were supporting any particular candidate, right?
Since Obama knew about the "hacks" but did nothing, by your reasoning, Barack Obama colluded with the Russians to get Trump elected.
See how stupid that sounds?
God help this kid if he ever figures out who published the wildly popular PC game America's Army.
Daddy, what does false dichotomy mean?
See TFA.
Funny how concepts like States' Rights lose their importance when you don't like what the States are doing - but are a useful cover when you want to, say, destroy unions - or pander to racist voters.
... or force them to adhere to certain fuel economy standards...
"It's only a problem when I disagree with the action."
You are not seriously suggesting that Libertarians represent mainstream Conservatism in the United States in 2018, are you?
Nope, I was just responding to your generalization.
If everybody receives a check for $24k a year for doing nothing
... a gallon of milk would cost $400.
Liberal here. Willing to agree to voter ID laws under 3 conditions:
1. Election days are national holidays.
2. Same day registration everywhere.
3. The ID is 100% free.
None of these compromise the security you are looking for. However, no conservative will agree because they do prevent actual voters from being disenfranchised, which is actually what they want.
Prove me wrong.
I'm a conservative in the Libertarian sense, and I think that's exactly how federal elections should function. Sure beats spending millions of dollars on useless "security" programs that do nothing but line someone's pockets with tax dollars.
Congrats, you've been proven wrong.
surely there are metals in some form in the gunpowder.
Jesus, you don't even know the basic chemistry of gunpowder?
Methinks you don't have enough knowledge about the subject to really participate in this discussion.