If the politician ran on a platform of sexual freedom for all, and worked with a political party that did the same, fine. That's consistent, even ethical, behavior. However, when a politician is the leading figure in a party that has pushed to prevent gay marriage, restrict abortion, gladly bans sex toys in some states, etc, etc, etc, then I expect the politician to live a private life more in line with his party's platform.
Similarly, a guy who gets married, then proceeds to cheat on his wife, and then pays hush money to keep everyone from finding out... is a guy who has no moral compass. If he wants to have a bunch of different fuck-buddies, why is he married? And if his wife is OK with it, then why the big deal trying to keep the whole thing a secret? Why not simply get her on record saying "I really don't care, y do u?"... but that isn't what's going on here. Instead he's acting like he didn't do any of that stuff. He denies the affairs (hard to buy since he's on his third wife and he clearly cheated on his 2nd with the one he's got now). He denies the payoffs. But the evidence is pretty clear that there were payoffs and he knew about them.
Finally, if he's doing a good job in office? Well, maybe you think this bozo is hitting all the right notes, but I don't. In fact, I think his incredibly poor judgement in his personal life spills WAY over into his performance in office. It's possible that there's a guy out there with incredibly poor judgement in his personal affairs who would be a whiz at running the country... but this ain't that guy.
I don't care who he fucks, if he's a private citizen. But he seems to care a lot about us knowing who he fucks and whether he paid some of them to keep quiet about it. But a President who can't stay married to the same lady, and fucks around on the ones he is married to? Sounds like a scumbag with pretty bad judgment and no real moral compass. Not someone I think should be the "leader of the free world". And the evangelicals who voted for him are the same people who keep bleating about "sanctity of marriage", so if nothing else this stuff needs to be on the front page just to point out what a bunch of lame hypocrites those folks are.
Who, exactly, despises Elizabeth Warren? Republicans, obviously. But is there a mass of centrists and left-leaners that don't like her? If so, I'm not aware of it.
You cucks keep saying that if Hillary runs again that Trump will win for sure... I love that. I think she is a lying crooked scumbag almost to the same level as he is, but after a few years of Trump being president even I'd have to take a long hard look at being willing to vote for her to keep him from being re-elected. At least she'll appoint a handful of cabinet members who aren't complete shitheads and would nominate people for the Supreme Court that I could get behind. She did win the popular vote after all and only lost the EC by a slim margin (in terms of a few states that were very close). The only reason Trump won, and the only reason Republicans have a majority in the House is because of that ultimate gerrymander known as the Electoral College-- which is a holdover from wanting to give slave owners an "equal" say in the federal government. I get that there may not have been a federal government without this compromise, but the EC is a clear subversion of the will of the People from a time when most of the actual people in the USA weren't even allowed to vote.
The fact that Donald Trump managed to wrangle the Republican nomination in the first place is a clear sign that said party is a complete mess. If Dotard's friends in Russia hadn't managed to hack the DNC and get all those incriminatory emails out, I'm guessing that more voters would have turned out for Hillary. But now, instead of just the vague threat that Chump will win we have his actual record to think about. I have to think that the more apathetic left-leaning voters in 2016 stayed home because they didn't think it would matter-- the polls all showed Hillary winning. The idea that the Orange Buffoon would win seemed farfetched. But now? Even Hillary could probably win in 2020.
Of course, I hope she doesn't seek the nomination and that if she does that the Democrats choose someone else. They need some fresh faces at the forefront. They would do well, in my opinion, to pick some relatively unknown person with a zero-controversy background and fairly left-wing bona fides in terms of policy ideas. Of course, it would be sort of fun to see them run Warren. She would drive Trump insane. He'd be incapable of speech other than babbling the word "Pocahontas" incessantly.
Most votes were not FOR Trump, but rather, AGAINST Hillary, and they refuse to believe that.
Actually... most votes were for Hillary. She won the popular vote by some 3 million votes. Problem for her was: they were in the wrong states. But who's stupid, again?
I never said it would fix the problem. I am simply attempting to clarify the situation regarding statements about what is and is not deprecated. If Google were to switch to a library using v1, then at least Firefox users could turn on Shadow DOM support, which is available as an experimental feature. And as it stands, Firefox has Shadow DOM enabled in the nightly build, so I would assume "it's coming soon". As it stands, I'm not sure how one tests FF + YouTube with the experimental Shadow DOM enabled since YouTube is using a deprecated version of Shadow DOM.
Given that Google have had Polymer 2.0 in general release since March 15, 2017, and they're currently on Polymer 3.0... perhaps they should feel some sense of urgency in getting one of their flagship web properties up to date? That's an awful long time to sit on a library that relies on an API that was deprecated back in April of this year.
They throw "v1" in there because "v0" is deprecated and the version of Polymer that Google is using on YouTube uses v0. https://www.chromestatus.com/f...
No one said Shadow DOM is deprecated. The point is that Polymer 1.0, which is being used on YouTube uses on Shadow DOM v0, which is deprecated. They could update their version of Polymer to 2.0 or higher and rely instead on Shadow DOM v1, which is not deprecated. https://www.chromestatus.com/f...
Don't be a fucking idiot. Black people who get skin cancer are more likely to die from it than white people, for starters. They are less likely to get it in the first place thanks to an extra dose of melanin, but they still get it at a pretty good clip. And some "Black" people are extremely light-skinned (thanks to having white ancestors), so that's much less melanin helping them out. Think about it. President Obama is "Black" right? But he actually has more "white" genes in his body than "Black" thanks to his mother and her mitochondrial DNA. If he's being safe he'll wear sunscreen, even though he's Black.
Big fucking deal. The whole issue is going to go the way of broadcast TV in the next decade-- if not sooner. Fucking landline holdover nonsense.
Unless they can figure out how to spoof numbers in my (mental) contacts list, I never answer my "phone". In fact, my "phone" isn't even really a phone anymore, it's a VOIP device. My other "phone" is an extremely powerful computer that I carry in my pocket that has at least three apps on it for transmitting video and audio to people I want to talk to in real time.
If homeopathy shit can be sold in stores (especially in the medicine section), then why shouldn't phone scams that rely on called ID spoofing be legal too? Frankly, if you're dumb enough to fall for this shit you ought to have your voting privileges revoked.
I was going to mention the move away from the Apple II era where they weren't just open, they basically encouraged tinkering by regular consumers... and you're right, they did hold on for quite a while to having model lines that were more user-serviceable.
What the fuck are you talking about? Miniaturization has nothing to do with certain aspects of serviceability... I don't need any special tools to replace the battery on my current phone... the back snaps off and the battery is right there, along with a memory card and SIM card slots. And my phone cost at least 1/2 the price of an iPhone with similar specs.
Apple has been doing this since 1984 when they debuted this approach with the original Macintosh. And as long as they never consistently crack 30% marketshare for their devices, there will always be a supply of people who can be lulled in by the marketing hype.
It's the same situation in a different jurisdiction. Because of all the trade treaties and agreements, many world governments are, for all intents and purpose, entangled to the point that we might as well have a "world government"... there is significant reciprocity between the jurisdictions that mutually benefit both (or at least benefit the ownership class in both areas). The real question here isn't why Trump is so angry at the EU, but why the US DOJ and FTC aren't aggressively pursuing the same type of case against Google.
Um, why would Germany fear Russia? Russia would have to go through at least two other countries to get to Germany. Germany is surrounded by other countries that are not a military threat to it at this point. And while Russia might be able to conquer Belarus and Poland to get to Germany... why the hell would it want to? They're much better off selling them fuel than they are setting off WWIII.
Remember when the prime rate was routinely in the double digits? Yeah, me neither. In the 80s and 90s prime never went below 5%. Since then it's rarely been above 5%. You want to be paid interest on your savings account? Blame the Fed, not the banks. But for most of the past two decades the government has decided that liquid savings are useless, perhaps as a way to help push people into retirement accounts and equities funds and home buying. Plus, if we make savings account unattractive, that boosts spending, which keeps people employed. I'm not taking a position on whether these policy decisions are right/wrong, just saying that you need to look at the bigger picture.
In the reporting I've read there is no mention of the fines increasing as time goes on-- only that they will be subject to a 5% revenue fine. The appeal of the current case could take years... by the time this is all settled, Google may well have found a way around Android, and starting this whole fight all over again.
If the EU wanted more than money (which it desperately can use), it could use many other legal mechanisms to resolve the issue. But why would they want to actually resolve the issue when they can soak Google and send the money to EU countries that could use the cash? I'm not trying to defend Trump here, by the way, because I don't see why he cares... except that he has some bizarre fixation on trade imbalances.
A new president? Or a new precedent? Because the USA already has a precedent in this exact situation -- Microsoft and IE.
Google probably makes a few more than $5b from the EU markets. But unless there is more to this than a fine, then DJT is right... it's just a money grab. The ruling as it stands doesn't flat out require them to change their business practices, just levies fines for non-compliance. And at a paltry 5% of their daily take in the EU. So they can continue this practice indefinitely and just pay the tax if they want.
I've been using Amazon Fire tablets for me, my wife, and kids for about two years now (at least). Yes, Amazon has their own app store (which is second-rate at best), but I've had no trouble installing apps from Google Play, just followed a simple tutorial on what to install from where and it runs side by side with the Amazon app store. I seem to recall one case where Amazon app store tried to update over a Google Play app, but in general the two have played well together. Never noticed any "slow down" and certainly not any app instability.
Of course, the Amazon platform is even more locked down from what I can tell, and I doubt Amazon is doing much better than Google when it comes to privacy, tracking and stuff... probably worse. Heck, the tablet is showing me a full screen ad every time I turn it on. But at least I got a quantified discount on my tablets because of that. With Google it sounds like they think they're giving Android users a discount by bundling, but what they're really doing (especially by bundling Chrome) is messing with market share. On my Amazon tablets I might put Gmail on there because that's a specific thing, but if I'm choosing my own browser, I'll go Firefox.
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If the politician ran on a platform of sexual freedom for all, and worked with a political party that did the same, fine. That's consistent, even ethical, behavior. However, when a politician is the leading figure in a party that has pushed to prevent gay marriage, restrict abortion, gladly bans sex toys in some states, etc, etc, etc, then I expect the politician to live a private life more in line with his party's platform.
Similarly, a guy who gets married, then proceeds to cheat on his wife, and then pays hush money to keep everyone from finding out... is a guy who has no moral compass. If he wants to have a bunch of different fuck-buddies, why is he married? And if his wife is OK with it, then why the big deal trying to keep the whole thing a secret? Why not simply get her on record saying "I really don't care, y do u?" ... but that isn't what's going on here. Instead he's acting like he didn't do any of that stuff. He denies the affairs (hard to buy since he's on his third wife and he clearly cheated on his 2nd with the one he's got now). He denies the payoffs. But the evidence is pretty clear that there were payoffs and he knew about them.
Finally, if he's doing a good job in office? Well, maybe you think this bozo is hitting all the right notes, but I don't. In fact, I think his incredibly poor judgement in his personal life spills WAY over into his performance in office. It's possible that there's a guy out there with incredibly poor judgement in his personal affairs who would be a whiz at running the country... but this ain't that guy.
According to President Trump "The electoral college is a disaster for democracy". https://twitter.com/realdonald...
I guess even a lying clock tells the truth by accident once in a while.
I don't care who he fucks, if he's a private citizen. But he seems to care a lot about us knowing who he fucks and whether he paid some of them to keep quiet about it. But a President who can't stay married to the same lady, and fucks around on the ones he is married to? Sounds like a scumbag with pretty bad judgment and no real moral compass. Not someone I think should be the "leader of the free world". And the evangelicals who voted for him are the same people who keep bleating about "sanctity of marriage", so if nothing else this stuff needs to be on the front page just to point out what a bunch of lame hypocrites those folks are.
Who, exactly, despises Elizabeth Warren? Republicans, obviously. But is there a mass of centrists and left-leaners that don't like her? If so, I'm not aware of it.
You cucks keep saying that if Hillary runs again that Trump will win for sure... I love that. I think she is a lying crooked scumbag almost to the same level as he is, but after a few years of Trump being president even I'd have to take a long hard look at being willing to vote for her to keep him from being re-elected. At least she'll appoint a handful of cabinet members who aren't complete shitheads and would nominate people for the Supreme Court that I could get behind. She did win the popular vote after all and only lost the EC by a slim margin (in terms of a few states that were very close). The only reason Trump won, and the only reason Republicans have a majority in the House is because of that ultimate gerrymander known as the Electoral College-- which is a holdover from wanting to give slave owners an "equal" say in the federal government. I get that there may not have been a federal government without this compromise, but the EC is a clear subversion of the will of the People from a time when most of the actual people in the USA weren't even allowed to vote.
The fact that Donald Trump managed to wrangle the Republican nomination in the first place is a clear sign that said party is a complete mess. If Dotard's friends in Russia hadn't managed to hack the DNC and get all those incriminatory emails out, I'm guessing that more voters would have turned out for Hillary. But now, instead of just the vague threat that Chump will win we have his actual record to think about. I have to think that the more apathetic left-leaning voters in 2016 stayed home because they didn't think it would matter-- the polls all showed Hillary winning. The idea that the Orange Buffoon would win seemed farfetched. But now? Even Hillary could probably win in 2020.
Of course, I hope she doesn't seek the nomination and that if she does that the Democrats choose someone else. They need some fresh faces at the forefront. They would do well, in my opinion, to pick some relatively unknown person with a zero-controversy background and fairly left-wing bona fides in terms of policy ideas. Of course, it would be sort of fun to see them run Warren. She would drive Trump insane. He'd be incapable of speech other than babbling the word "Pocahontas" incessantly.
I can see where you think reading is hard. Because the summary is clearly referring to v0, which is deprecated, not v1 which is not.
Actually... most votes were for Hillary. She won the popular vote by some 3 million votes. Problem for her was: they were in the wrong states. But who's stupid, again?
I never said it would fix the problem. I am simply attempting to clarify the situation regarding statements about what is and is not deprecated. If Google were to switch to a library using v1, then at least Firefox users could turn on Shadow DOM support, which is available as an experimental feature. And as it stands, Firefox has Shadow DOM enabled in the nightly build, so I would assume "it's coming soon". As it stands, I'm not sure how one tests FF + YouTube with the experimental Shadow DOM enabled since YouTube is using a deprecated version of Shadow DOM.
Given that Google have had Polymer 2.0 in general release since March 15, 2017, and they're currently on Polymer 3.0... perhaps they should feel some sense of urgency in getting one of their flagship web properties up to date? That's an awful long time to sit on a library that relies on an API that was deprecated back in April of this year.
They throw "v1" in there because "v0" is deprecated and the version of Polymer that Google is using on YouTube uses v0. https://www.chromestatus.com/f...
No one said Shadow DOM is deprecated. The point is that Polymer 1.0, which is being used on YouTube uses on Shadow DOM v0, which is deprecated. They could update their version of Polymer to 2.0 or higher and rely instead on Shadow DOM v1, which is not deprecated. https://www.chromestatus.com/f...
Don't be a fucking idiot. Black people who get skin cancer are more likely to die from it than white people, for starters. They are less likely to get it in the first place thanks to an extra dose of melanin, but they still get it at a pretty good clip. And some "Black" people are extremely light-skinned (thanks to having white ancestors), so that's much less melanin helping them out. Think about it. President Obama is "Black" right? But he actually has more "white" genes in his body than "Black" thanks to his mother and her mitochondrial DNA. If he's being safe he'll wear sunscreen, even though he's Black.
Big fucking deal. The whole issue is going to go the way of broadcast TV in the next decade-- if not sooner. Fucking landline holdover nonsense.
Unless they can figure out how to spoof numbers in my (mental) contacts list, I never answer my "phone". In fact, my "phone" isn't even really a phone anymore, it's a VOIP device. My other "phone" is an extremely powerful computer that I carry in my pocket that has at least three apps on it for transmitting video and audio to people I want to talk to in real time.
If homeopathy shit can be sold in stores (especially in the medicine section), then why shouldn't phone scams that rely on called ID spoofing be legal too? Frankly, if you're dumb enough to fall for this shit you ought to have your voting privileges revoked.
So do I, but I try not to talk about it in public. #MeToo
I was going to mention the move away from the Apple II era where they weren't just open, they basically encouraged tinkering by regular consumers... and you're right, they did hold on for quite a while to having model lines that were more user-serviceable.
What the fuck are you talking about? Miniaturization has nothing to do with certain aspects of serviceability... I don't need any special tools to replace the battery on my current phone... the back snaps off and the battery is right there, along with a memory card and SIM card slots. And my phone cost at least 1/2 the price of an iPhone with similar specs.
Just hand them a power brick to replace their underpowered or fading in-built battery? Yeah, that's fucking brilliant.
Apple has been doing this since 1984 when they debuted this approach with the original Macintosh. And as long as they never consistently crack 30% marketshare for their devices, there will always be a supply of people who can be lulled in by the marketing hype.
It's the same situation in a different jurisdiction. Because of all the trade treaties and agreements, many world governments are, for all intents and purpose, entangled to the point that we might as well have a "world government"... there is significant reciprocity between the jurisdictions that mutually benefit both (or at least benefit the ownership class in both areas). The real question here isn't why Trump is so angry at the EU, but why the US DOJ and FTC aren't aggressively pursuing the same type of case against Google.
Um, why would Germany fear Russia? Russia would have to go through at least two other countries to get to Germany. Germany is surrounded by other countries that are not a military threat to it at this point. And while Russia might be able to conquer Belarus and Poland to get to Germany... why the hell would it want to? They're much better off selling them fuel than they are setting off WWIII.
Remember when the prime rate was routinely in the double digits? Yeah, me neither. In the 80s and 90s prime never went below 5%. Since then it's rarely been above 5%. You want to be paid interest on your savings account? Blame the Fed, not the banks. But for most of the past two decades the government has decided that liquid savings are useless, perhaps as a way to help push people into retirement accounts and equities funds and home buying. Plus, if we make savings account unattractive, that boosts spending, which keeps people employed. I'm not taking a position on whether these policy decisions are right/wrong, just saying that you need to look at the bigger picture.
Amazon's tablets are very much Android devices. You can install any Android app on them you want... including Google Play.
In the reporting I've read there is no mention of the fines increasing as time goes on-- only that they will be subject to a 5% revenue fine. The appeal of the current case could take years... by the time this is all settled, Google may well have found a way around Android, and starting this whole fight all over again.
If the EU wanted more than money (which it desperately can use), it could use many other legal mechanisms to resolve the issue. But why would they want to actually resolve the issue when they can soak Google and send the money to EU countries that could use the cash? I'm not trying to defend Trump here, by the way, because I don't see why he cares... except that he has some bizarre fixation on trade imbalances.
A new president? Or a new precedent? Because the USA already has a precedent in this exact situation -- Microsoft and IE.
Google probably makes a few more than $5b from the EU markets. But unless there is more to this than a fine, then DJT is right... it's just a money grab. The ruling as it stands doesn't flat out require them to change their business practices, just levies fines for non-compliance. And at a paltry 5% of their daily take in the EU. So they can continue this practice indefinitely and just pay the tax if they want.
I've been using Amazon Fire tablets for me, my wife, and kids for about two years now (at least). Yes, Amazon has their own app store (which is second-rate at best), but I've had no trouble installing apps from Google Play, just followed a simple tutorial on what to install from where and it runs side by side with the Amazon app store. I seem to recall one case where Amazon app store tried to update over a Google Play app, but in general the two have played well together. Never noticed any "slow down" and certainly not any app instability.
Of course, the Amazon platform is even more locked down from what I can tell, and I doubt Amazon is doing much better than Google when it comes to privacy, tracking and stuff... probably worse. Heck, the tablet is showing me a full screen ad every time I turn it on. But at least I got a quantified discount on my tablets because of that. With Google it sounds like they think they're giving Android users a discount by bundling, but what they're really doing (especially by bundling Chrome) is messing with market share. On my Amazon tablets I might put Gmail on there because that's a specific thing, but if I'm choosing my own browser, I'll go Firefox.
This is anecdotal evidence to be sure.