The difference between 1863 and now: Obama has actually tried to rule by decree 4 times, and each time was slapped down by the supreme court as in each instance they were "a clear abuse of power."
How were we supposed to know he was going to pull this crap.
You could have listened to those "wingnut conservatives" who were reporting that he was going to be worse than your fondest nightmare. Oh...and if you're getting your news from NPR, ABC, CBS, NBC or CNN...I'm sure you enjoyed the wall-to-wall coverage about how Obama was the second coming, and Romney evil...with fangs and stuff. Of course we can't forget that the IRS helped Obama along by you know, blocking tea party groups from launching non-profit organizations. And it appears that one goes much further up the chain. Oh and who can forget about Benghazi too right? I mean it was some guy in California who made a video that cause it. Oh wait...no...almost a year afterwards we're finding out that the DOJ, and Whitehouse both covered that one up as well. Never mind, they're both "phoney scandals."
Here, let's help everyone out. "Chicago politics." Your mainstream media is complicit in this.
Probably not. Taken a good look recently on how much red tape you need to go through for even the most simple building projects in the US? Hell at my place down in Florida, it took me nearly 2 years go get a live oak cut down. That was *after* it had been hit by lightening, caught on fire, was infested with ants, and was leaning on the neighbors house.
A lot of computers are now being shipped with TPM's SOLDERED onto the motherboard
Well no. You're going to be pretty hard pressed to find any consumer level, even business level machines with a soldered in TPM module. They're meant to be replaceable if they fail.
No you're not missing anything. Even UEFI can be turned off on nearly every motherboard out there, my mobo from my new build early this year has UEFI and I could turn it off if I want. Right there in the menu selections. Though most good consumer boards also support TPM as an option. As you said, just don't buy the module. Even the mid-range MSI board I recently picked up supports it.
If you want tens of thousands of video cards, you are going to have to make a deal with a manufacturer.
Yeah...no. If I wanted 5000-10000 video cards tomorrow, I'd call up Ingram Micro and say "this is what I want" and they'd get me X pricing per-unit in bulk(orders over 6k units get special pricing). I *have* ordered quantities of things like HDD's, and videocards in the 2500-5000 unit range in the last decade. I couldn't have 8000 cards tomorrow, but I could have every videocard in every warehouse that they own in North America for me in three days, expedited.
At least that is an attempt at treatment. I am speaking about someone dying because they had to decide between a painkiller and an antibiotic.
That happens in Canada too, though more frequent in the UK.
In the USA if left to the states the whole middle of the country would have no health care for those that could not afford it. Neither would the south.
And people said the same thing about Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the entire east coast of Canada. Well, now Ontario(which was the economic engine of Canada) is no longer, it's Alberta. And all the rest on that. The biggest problem you guys in the US have is stifling regulations that prevent development of new businesses.
I have a set of Samsung 830 SSDs (128GB and 256GB sizes) that have been going strong for about twelve months now
Only 12 months? I've got a first generation SSD that's going on 4 years now of continuous uptime. I've yet to have a single problem with it, let alone cell issues that some people have had.
I just wish Bethesda would leverage the talent at id to produce quality *stable* games. Through around 80 hours of playing Rage, I think I had 1 maybe 2 crashes/hangs. I get more than that per *hour* playing Skyrim or Fallout: NV.
Perhaps you've got a system issue then, and by that I mean it's most likely driver related. Both NV and Skyrim are exceptionally temperamental with video drives. There was a case back with I think the 260 or 250ish series that slowed loading in skyrim to a crawl. I can easily go 10-15 hours before crashing in Skyrim, and that's with a 108 mods loaded. NV wasn't a Bethesda game, it was an Obsidian game. The biggest problem with that game though was they pushed the engine to the absolute limit, and that lead to a lot of issues with stability. Most of what was in FOSE for scripting extensions was included out of the box with NV.
Although sucks to be everyone else at id software.
Considering that ID has been sucking towards the bottom for awhile, it shouldn't matter. Really the only hope they had for continued existence was getting bought out by Zenimax(aka Bethesda).
The other option of course being what we have in the USA that people simply die from lack of treatment.
I hope you realize that this happens in the "socialized system" too. Happens in Canada, happens in the UK, and so on. We have several shining cases of people being transferred around, and around, and around to different hospitals so they can get emergency life saving treatment...only to die in the ambulance after the 3rd hospital is shut down.
I don't know if it's funny or sad, that you guys in the US are just now catching on that this was a freaking disaster. I said that a few years ago, and the/. crowd blasted me for it. Stupid to ignore someone who lives under such a system already. Let me point out again, that in Canada the Health Act at the federal level can fit on a couple of 8x10 sheets of paper, in a standard font. What's that monstrosity down in the US now? 1200, 1500 pages or something?
Pft. Idiots, the entire lot of you for sucking at the great and grand idea that federal level control is the way to do it. State/Provincial control is the only way to do it.
Do you have some evidence of such? Because I haven't seen a damned bit of this ZMGBLOATZ! you speak of.
Sure, I've got a few PC's that run 2nd generation atom CPU's, with every upgrade in firefox with "something special" the load, rendering, and startup time increases. Sometimes it increases by a lot. It can be quite annoying, say with 4 tabs open you'll see the browser slow to a crawl. Sometimes even stall out on loading javascript itself right from a site. This doesn't happen with Chromium or Chrome.
Sometimes, just sometimes people want a straight up simple browser. Sadly FF is following the path of netscape and IE in terms of feature creep.
Oh noes...a neocon bias. I mean just look, you've got all those other newspapers with a liberal bias including the NYT, and I hear nary a complaint. Then again, considering how hard and fast liberal papers are devaluing that's kind of moot isn't it? Take a look at the boston globe.
So if the police break in your house, without a warrant, and find evidence of a crime, well sorry that evidence, and anything resulting from it, can't be used.
Depends on how far they can push the plain view doctrine. Especially since you guys in the US don't have the right to privacy in your own home.
Yeah that's nice, except I'm not being a prick. Rather I'm pointing out that your post has no basis in reality. Nor did I say that local journalists aren't needed(reading is an issue on/. these days apparently). To point out the reality of this all? Bloggers are today's local expert journalists. The general newspaper and TV media threw themselves on the spear of "easy news" all on their own, and people have been leaving in droves for a very good reason.
Wonder why that in the US that somewhere around 21% of the public find reporters trustworthy.
Yeah, that's nice, except very few papers do investigative journalism anymore. They all use stringer stories from one of the large media companies, which you can read on *insert dozen other newspapers*. There's a reason why it's dying, and it's because it's become a monoculture.
Except that there really isn't anything wrong with Windows8, except the damned awful UI. If they'd included a classic shell, there wouldn't even be half as much whining over it.
Reminds me of Bruce Nuclear. That went on, and on, and on, and on, after they shut it down for refurbishment and replacing the reactors to a more modern design. And it wasn't the NIMBY's, it was the environmentalists making the NIMBY's froth all over the place. And it was the environmentalists spear heading it all in the courts too.
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And Obamacare doesn't have death panels either...oh wait.
The difference between 1863 and now: Obama has actually tried to rule by decree 4 times, and each time was slapped down by the supreme court as in each instance they were "a clear abuse of power."
How were we supposed to know he was going to pull this crap.
You could have listened to those "wingnut conservatives" who were reporting that he was going to be worse than your fondest nightmare. Oh...and if you're getting your news from NPR, ABC, CBS, NBC or CNN...I'm sure you enjoyed the wall-to-wall coverage about how Obama was the second coming, and Romney evil...with fangs and stuff. Of course we can't forget that the IRS helped Obama along by you know, blocking tea party groups from launching non-profit organizations. And it appears that one goes much further up the chain. Oh and who can forget about Benghazi too right? I mean it was some guy in California who made a video that cause it. Oh wait...no...almost a year afterwards we're finding out that the DOJ, and Whitehouse both covered that one up as well. Never mind, they're both "phoney scandals."
Here, let's help everyone out. "Chicago politics." Your mainstream media is complicit in this.
Probably not. Taken a good look recently on how much red tape you need to go through for even the most simple building projects in the US? Hell at my place down in Florida, it took me nearly 2 years go get a live oak cut down. That was *after* it had been hit by lightening, caught on fire, was infested with ants, and was leaning on the neighbors house.
A lot of computers are now being shipped with TPM's SOLDERED onto the motherboard
Well no. You're going to be pretty hard pressed to find any consumer level, even business level machines with a soldered in TPM module. They're meant to be replaceable if they fail.
I must be getting old. I actually remember a time when /. had at least somewhat technically savvy people.
No you're not missing anything. Even UEFI can be turned off on nearly every motherboard out there, my mobo from my new build early this year has UEFI and I could turn it off if I want. Right there in the menu selections. Though most good consumer boards also support TPM as an option. As you said, just don't buy the module. Even the mid-range MSI board I recently picked up supports it.
If you want tens of thousands of video cards, you are going to have to make a deal with a manufacturer.
Yeah...no. If I wanted 5000-10000 video cards tomorrow, I'd call up Ingram Micro and say "this is what I want" and they'd get me X pricing per-unit in bulk(orders over 6k units get special pricing). I *have* ordered quantities of things like HDD's, and videocards in the 2500-5000 unit range in the last decade. I couldn't have 8000 cards tomorrow, but I could have every videocard in every warehouse that they own in North America for me in three days, expedited.
You already have that option. Buy it on iTunes or Amazon.
Hahaha...
HAHAHAHAHA....
Yeah, try that from oh say Canada, or really any European country.
Because they're charging the same price as a paperback, or hardcover, sometimes even more.
Good point, now let me ask. So Americans, Obama is better than Bush...right? Right? Haha. Congratulations, you elected Carter II for two terms.
At least that is an attempt at treatment. I am speaking about someone dying because they had to decide between a painkiller and an antibiotic.
That happens in Canada too, though more frequent in the UK.
In the USA if left to the states the whole middle of the country would have no health care for those that could not afford it. Neither would the south.
And people said the same thing about Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the entire east coast of Canada. Well, now Ontario(which was the economic engine of Canada) is no longer, it's Alberta. And all the rest on that. The biggest problem you guys in the US have is stifling regulations that prevent development of new businesses.
I have a set of Samsung 830 SSDs (128GB and 256GB sizes) that have been going strong for about twelve months now
Only 12 months? I've got a first generation SSD that's going on 4 years now of continuous uptime. I've yet to have a single problem with it, let alone cell issues that some people have had.
I just wish Bethesda would leverage the talent at id to produce quality *stable* games. Through around 80 hours of playing Rage, I think I had 1 maybe 2 crashes/hangs. I get more than that per *hour* playing Skyrim or Fallout: NV.
Perhaps you've got a system issue then, and by that I mean it's most likely driver related. Both NV and Skyrim are exceptionally temperamental with video drives. There was a case back with I think the 260 or 250ish series that slowed loading in skyrim to a crawl. I can easily go 10-15 hours before crashing in Skyrim, and that's with a 108 mods loaded. NV wasn't a Bethesda game, it was an Obsidian game. The biggest problem with that game though was they pushed the engine to the absolute limit, and that lead to a lot of issues with stability. Most of what was in FOSE for scripting extensions was included out of the box with NV.
Although sucks to be everyone else at id software.
Considering that ID has been sucking towards the bottom for awhile, it shouldn't matter. Really the only hope they had for continued existence was getting bought out by Zenimax(aka Bethesda).
The other option of course being what we have in the USA that people simply die from lack of treatment.
I hope you realize that this happens in the "socialized system" too. Happens in Canada, happens in the UK, and so on. We have several shining cases of people being transferred around, and around, and around to different hospitals so they can get emergency life saving treatment...only to die in the ambulance after the 3rd hospital is shut down.
I don't know if it's funny or sad, that you guys in the US are just now catching on that this was a freaking disaster. I said that a few years ago, and the /. crowd blasted me for it. Stupid to ignore someone who lives under such a system already. Let me point out again, that in Canada the Health Act at the federal level can fit on a couple of 8x10 sheets of paper, in a standard font. What's that monstrosity down in the US now? 1200, 1500 pages or something?
Pft. Idiots, the entire lot of you for sucking at the great and grand idea that federal level control is the way to do it. State/Provincial control is the only way to do it.
Do you have some evidence of such? Because I haven't seen a damned bit of this ZMGBLOATZ! you speak of.
Sure, I've got a few PC's that run 2nd generation atom CPU's, with every upgrade in firefox with "something special" the load, rendering, and startup time increases. Sometimes it increases by a lot. It can be quite annoying, say with 4 tabs open you'll see the browser slow to a crawl. Sometimes even stall out on loading javascript itself right from a site. This doesn't happen with Chromium or Chrome.
Sometimes, just sometimes people want a straight up simple browser. Sadly FF is following the path of netscape and IE in terms of feature creep.
Just think, youtube would also become an enabler of the said crime.
Oh noes...a neocon bias. I mean just look, you've got all those other newspapers with a liberal bias including the NYT, and I hear nary a complaint. Then again, considering how hard and fast liberal papers are devaluing that's kind of moot isn't it? Take a look at the boston globe.
So if the police break in your house, without a warrant, and find evidence of a crime, well sorry that evidence, and anything resulting from it, can't be used.
Depends on how far they can push the plain view doctrine. Especially since you guys in the US don't have the right to privacy in your own home.
Considering that they've been approving 100% of all warrants? Yeah, pretty sure there's a problem. Reminds me of the kangeroo courts...I mean human rights councils here in Canada. Which had a 100% conviction rate.
Yeah that's nice, except I'm not being a prick. Rather I'm pointing out that your post has no basis in reality. Nor did I say that local journalists aren't needed(reading is an issue on /. these days apparently). To point out the reality of this all? Bloggers are today's local expert journalists. The general newspaper and TV media threw themselves on the spear of "easy news" all on their own, and people have been leaving in droves for a very good reason.
Wonder why that in the US that somewhere around 21% of the public find reporters trustworthy.
Haha.
Yeah, that's nice, except very few papers do investigative journalism anymore. They all use stringer stories from one of the large media companies, which you can read on *insert dozen other newspapers*. There's a reason why it's dying, and it's because it's become a monoculture.
Eventually. But Windows 8 is quite toxic enough
Except that there really isn't anything wrong with Windows8, except the damned awful UI. If they'd included a classic shell, there wouldn't even be half as much whining over it.
Reminds me of Bruce Nuclear. That went on, and on, and on, and on, after they shut it down for refurbishment and replacing the reactors to a more modern design. And it wasn't the NIMBY's, it was the environmentalists making the NIMBY's froth all over the place. And it was the environmentalists spear heading it all in the courts too.