It's apparently not that automatic if it's quiet for years, and then starts spitting out tweets oddly relevant to the election.
Also, with regards to your first point, yeah, we do want to know what kind of people we're voting for. But Bill Clinton is someone we voted for (past tense), he's not running in this election. And Trump's father isn't running either.
Do you really think "Trump's father is awesome!" (BTW, no, he was a racist shithead) "Clinton's husband was controversial!" (Uh, whatever) adds anything to the current political discourse?
But the Hillary campaign is flailing wildly as she loses, so they will claim anything, no matter how contradictory.
Perhaps you could point out the contradiction. The Clinton campaign has claimed Trump is linked to Russia, and even made it clear he's a dangerous nut (something we can all agree on), but they've never, ever, claimed Trump is going to start a war with Russia.
I think it's "If you're using Chrome under Windows 10, and someone tries to hack you using, say, a hacked plugin, Chrome will be able to sandbox this. In any other configuration, you're screwed."
So a guy and gal* are on their third date, they're on the cusp of sex and the guy says she's not on the pill and the gal says "It's OK, I'm on the shot".
Does he believe her?
This is what happens now.
And if the guy was on the pill, and the gal was too, then this conversation wouldn't be happening. But right now the guy can't be, so we can't eliminate the ability of both partners to prevent something unwanted from happening nearly as effectively as we'd otherwise be able to do. (Sure, the guy can put on a condom, but by doing so he'd be telling the gal he doesn't trust her by default, which perhaps he might try to explain away with an even more awkward discussion about STDs, either way ruining the mood.)
* gal used because it seems silly to be cute about "guy" but then use a juvenile term for "woman". But, hey, now I've made this post even more awkward, and probably ruined the mood...
Speak for yourself. (Honestly, isn't it time we retired this stereotype? It doesn't really make any sense anyway, all of my fellow software developers where I work are married with children anyway.)
No, we haven't learned that because it's barely true. Most women are mostly happy with the pill, once they've found the right one. They're happy to have control over their periods, and they're very happy to have control over their reproductive capabilities. Yes, there are some negative aspects, but the majority of women appear to accept them in exchange for the positive side.
Now, in fairness, for men the stakes are a little lower. Our bodies will not be out of commission for nine months as a result of mistimed sex. We don't have a hormonal cycle that causes problems for us at only moderately predictable times of the month. But... on the other hand, having to support an unwanted child, or a child with an unwanted long term partner, isn't something many men are eager to do. So there are still pros, and for many men those will outweigh the cons.
The intention here is to give men the same control over their reproductive system that's currently offered to women, so we don't have as high a risk of having a child when we're in no position to support it. I think that's great, personally.
Chromebooks are pretty high quality and worth considering especially given the price. From experience:
ChromeOS is a nice idea but the web isn't there yet and Google's (slow) integration of Android, to a certain extent, is a surrender in recognition of that fact.
I wasn't impressed with Crouton. Well, know, wait, that's unfair: what Crouton does is impressive, but it's one of those things where you think "This is what you want", and you get it, and you realize that wasn't really what you wanted. Crouton offers a way to get a user session from Ubuntu (or whatever) to co-exist with your ChromeOS session, but it only really works if you want one of the major desktops on an older version of Ubuntu. And when you finally get it working, you end up asking yourself "Why? Why not have full Ubuntu, rather than just a user session?" and then you say "Ah, but this lets me switch between ChromeOS and half assed Ubuntu" and then you slap yourself and say "Why the f--- would you want ChromeOS if you're running Ubuntu anyway?"
So... the next step is chrx. chrx is a tool to actually install Ubuntu on your Chromebook - I mean, properly, not a subset. The process feels a little like installing Slackware on a Gateway 2000 PC from the late 1990s, which is odd because Chromebook hardware is more standardized, but, well. You'll need to patch your Chromebook's BIOS, for example. Oddly it's to support something called "Legacy boot", which raises an obvious question.
chrx does allow you to partition the laptop's SSD so you can keep ChromeOS for those occasions it might be useful. But otherwise you get to install either pure Ubuntu, or (the default) a modified version called GalliumOS which has its own "optimal" desktop. I'm running the latter, with Cinnamon, and it mostly works, except the multimedia keys don't do anything (so I can't adjust the volume easily), and the mousepad is always "tap to click" for some reason. Like I said, it's like installing Slackware on a 1990s PC.
If you have patience, a Chromebook is a good idea. Like I said, very high quality hardware for the price. But you need patience.
If I am selling holiday packages to Vietnam, I would want to not advertise to the Vietnamese.
I can see why you wouldn't want to advertise to people in Vietnam, but why wouldn't you want to advertise to Vietnamese people? There'd be a disproportionately high number who'd want to visit their birthplace or the birthplace of their parents, surely?
And in this case, if I was advertising a property in a neighbourhood that is not popular with Hispanic people according to the demographic study conducted, why would I spend hundreds or thousands of dollars advertising to them?
Perhaps because it's unlikely that situation would ever occur, or rather, it would only occur because of reasons that have nothing to do with them being hispanic. The only thing I can think of would be income, given hispanics have an average lower income than whites, in which case, why not target income instead of "race"?
Ultimately though targeting race in adverts is, except in very rare cases, going to make existing racial problems worse.
Sanders said nothing of the sort. He complained about the DNC not giving him a fair shot in the Democratic Primaries, but he never accused Clinton of rigging the election.
The majority of states are in Republican hands. Republicans, literally, count most of the votes in this country. They've also been at the forefront of voter suppression efforts trying to ensure traditionally democratic groups - such as car less, urban voters - have roadblocks Republican voters have already cleared. The idea that Clinton has any undue influence over the election is laughable.
Those are pretty minor compared to what concerns most people about Trump (or Clinton, for that matter.)
There's a lot of people voting in this election who are voting for Clinton solely because she's up against Trump. If Trump wasn't a factor, they'd vote third party, in order to tell the Democratic party that it needs to move left to attract their support. Rubio is inoffensive and a fairly decent honorable man (I'm actually voting for him in the Senate race, this isn't a hypothetical "sure, you say it now, but..." - in part because he's shown leadership on difficult issues, and in part because his opponent is a useless sack of crap.) Likewise, despite the handicap of the last name, I don't think Clinton would stand a chance against Jeb Bush.
Clinton is only leading the polls because she's running against Trump. Trump horrifies virtually everyone outside of the alt-right, the old South, and those who have done no research whatsoever. And it tells you how unpopular Clinton is that even many of the people horrified by Trump are voting for him.
She's awful, though in fairness, who isn't in this election? The main thing going for Clinton that the others don't have is that 99% of the allegations constantly made against her are complete fiction, but frankly, that other 1% is pretty shitty.
It has a removable battery, and a headphone jack. You can't have those in a modern Web 3.0 Internet of Things Cloud based web browser engine, that's soooo 2015.
"Show runner" is rarely listed in the credits. Usually some other role that applies to the person who is the show runner is listed, such as Creator.
I like the fact they can be really misleading. Producer sounds like it's the "boss", but actually it's often an underling who has to get the stars coffee and make sure they're in good hotel rooms. Remember Jeremy Clarkson beating up his producer? He wasn't beating up his boss, he was beating up someone who worked for him. Executive Producer? Probably - though not always - some guy at the studio who approved funding the show.
The term has existed for decades. Producers and directors frequently change from show to show - writers too. Directors have a little creative input but work from a script he or she has little say in. The Producer's job is to make sure the Director can do his or her job. And an "Executive producer" is the person who fronts the cash, they rarely have any creative involvement at all.
None of those describe the person who owns the show creatively, who approves the scripts, determines the core storylines, manages the show's bible, etc. That person is the showrunner.
The only confusion here from what I can see is that for some reason it's rarely a job title shown in the credits. Usually - though not always - the showrunner is also the show's creator, so they just gets listed under that title. Vince Gilligan, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul's showrunner, is listed as "Creator", for example.
You may not have intended it, but your allegations are a searing indictment of Republicans (or whoever came up with the law you're describing), not of Democrats. There's absolutely nothing whatsoever wrong with rewarding people for voting. Voting is a civic duty, and a government with a "mandate" determined by a minority of those governed has no mandate at all. A law making it illegal to reward people for merely voting is at odds with that principle.
This story isn't about laws intended to stop rewarding people for voting. it's about laws intended to stop rewarding people for voting for a particular candidate, or punishing them for voting against that candidate. That's a legitimate law. Not something that punishes people for rewarding others for doing their civic duty.
Well, clearly they'd be making money hand over fist if it wasn't for Vine;-)
Must admit I'm baffled by the uproar on Twitter. It was never that popular a service, and it sucked when your timelines were stuffed by autoplaying Vines, as they were when the service started and it was still novel.
And you ought to be free to make such decisions for your private associations. You ought not to be free to impose such restrictions on other property owners.
Unless the HOA has the rule at the time every single person in the neighborhood has moved in, then no, it shouldn't be able to make that decision.
HOAs are not democratic governments. They are only allowed to enforce the rules in their charters, and given the power they have, and the ease with which that power ends up being controlled by a tiny group of people, it's absolutely right they're limited in that way.
Bans on AirBNB need to be addressed through the democratic process.
Well, you're paying for what we computer people call "The Microsoft premium". As we all know, Microsoft's products aren't just designed to be powerful, but to have a design aesthetic that makes them just a little bit special compared to the competition. Apple has always been known for their powerful, but pedestrian, beige or gray thrown together boxes, with no thought given to how a device should look or feel or its usability. Whereas people buy Microsoft not just for the quality, but to own something a little special and little different from the boring old me-too machines from everyone else. A machine that looks friendly, and is friendly.
It's an ethos that may mean Microsoft only gets 2-3% of the market with its Lumia phones, or Zune music players, or Surface tablets, but it ends up getting the right 2-3%, discerning customers willing to pay more for a better product, who'll eventually influence those around them to do the same thing.
For more details, see my blog, Brave Plasma-sphere.
Jobs had little or nothing to do with the Lisa. In fact, the Mac was considered a rival project within Apple, even though it built upon significant amounts of the Lisa's R&D.
If Putin doesn't want 1941 to happen again - or rather, don't want to be embroiled again in a terrible war, - why is his regime trying to make enemies of the most powerful nations in the world?
As little as four years ago, Russia was a moderately respected nation about which our major beefs were homophobia and an apparently state sponsored murder of a former citizen on foreign soil. Now it's government is lying about its involvement in shooting down planes full of civilians, building giant bombs, and, whether the Russian government hacked US emails or not, Putin's assets have certainly been out in front making use of the leaked materials in an obvious effort to smear the likely winner of the current US election - from "reporting" on emails depicted as critical of Clinton sent by her friends that were actually forwarded news articles to publishing doctored copies with faked headers in an attempt to make Clinton look like a racist.
This is not the behavior of a country worried about war. It's the behavior of a demagogue eager to make war more likely.
If you mean FORTRAN, COBOL, et al by "real language", yeah it might have been once except for the fact the PC's implementation (CAPS "LOCK" is actually CAPS REVERSE SHIFT ON LETTERS) is broken too. Anyone who just wants a useful capitalization button has been SooL for a while.
The "Search" key on Chromebooks can be search, it can be Caps Lock if you want that, or it can be Control or Alt. Google has made it configurable.
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It's apparently not that automatic if it's quiet for years, and then starts spitting out tweets oddly relevant to the election.
Also, with regards to your first point, yeah, we do want to know what kind of people we're voting for. But Bill Clinton is someone we voted for (past tense), he's not running in this election. And Trump's father isn't running either.
Do you really think "Trump's father is awesome!" (BTW, no, he was a racist shithead) "Clinton's husband was controversial!" (Uh, whatever) adds anything to the current political discourse?
Perhaps you could point out the contradiction. The Clinton campaign has claimed Trump is linked to Russia, and even made it clear he's a dangerous nut (something we can all agree on), but they've never, ever, claimed Trump is going to start a war with Russia.
I think it's "If you're using Chrome under Windows 10, and someone tries to hack you using, say, a hacked plugin, Chrome will be able to sandbox this. In any other configuration, you're screwed."
So a guy and gal* are on their third date, they're on the cusp of sex and the guy says she's not on the pill and the gal says "It's OK, I'm on the shot".
Does he believe her?
This is what happens now.
And if the guy was on the pill, and the gal was too, then this conversation wouldn't be happening. But right now the guy can't be, so we can't eliminate the ability of both partners to prevent something unwanted from happening nearly as effectively as we'd otherwise be able to do. (Sure, the guy can put on a condom, but by doing so he'd be telling the gal he doesn't trust her by default, which perhaps he might try to explain away with an even more awkward discussion about STDs, either way ruining the mood.)
* gal used because it seems silly to be cute about "guy" but then use a juvenile term for "woman". But, hey, now I've made this post even more awkward, and probably ruined the mood...
Speak for yourself. (Honestly, isn't it time we retired this stereotype? It doesn't really make any sense anyway, all of my fellow software developers where I work are married with children anyway.)
No, we haven't learned that because it's barely true. Most women are mostly happy with the pill, once they've found the right one. They're happy to have control over their periods, and they're very happy to have control over their reproductive capabilities. Yes, there are some negative aspects, but the majority of women appear to accept them in exchange for the positive side.
Now, in fairness, for men the stakes are a little lower. Our bodies will not be out of commission for nine months as a result of mistimed sex. We don't have a hormonal cycle that causes problems for us at only moderately predictable times of the month. But... on the other hand, having to support an unwanted child, or a child with an unwanted long term partner, isn't something many men are eager to do. So there are still pros, and for many men those will outweigh the cons.
The intention here is to give men the same control over their reproductive system that's currently offered to women, so we don't have as high a risk of having a child when we're in no position to support it. I think that's great, personally.
Chromebooks are pretty high quality and worth considering especially given the price. From experience:
ChromeOS is a nice idea but the web isn't there yet and Google's (slow) integration of Android, to a certain extent, is a surrender in recognition of that fact.
I wasn't impressed with Crouton. Well, know, wait, that's unfair: what Crouton does is impressive, but it's one of those things where you think "This is what you want", and you get it, and you realize that wasn't really what you wanted. Crouton offers a way to get a user session from Ubuntu (or whatever) to co-exist with your ChromeOS session, but it only really works if you want one of the major desktops on an older version of Ubuntu. And when you finally get it working, you end up asking yourself "Why? Why not have full Ubuntu, rather than just a user session?" and then you say "Ah, but this lets me switch between ChromeOS and half assed Ubuntu" and then you slap yourself and say "Why the f--- would you want ChromeOS if you're running Ubuntu anyway?"
So... the next step is chrx. chrx is a tool to actually install Ubuntu on your Chromebook - I mean, properly, not a subset. The process feels a little like installing Slackware on a Gateway 2000 PC from the late 1990s, which is odd because Chromebook hardware is more standardized, but, well. You'll need to patch your Chromebook's BIOS, for example. Oddly it's to support something called "Legacy boot", which raises an obvious question.
chrx does allow you to partition the laptop's SSD so you can keep ChromeOS for those occasions it might be useful. But otherwise you get to install either pure Ubuntu, or (the default) a modified version called GalliumOS which has its own "optimal" desktop. I'm running the latter, with Cinnamon, and it mostly works, except the multimedia keys don't do anything (so I can't adjust the volume easily), and the mousepad is always "tap to click" for some reason. Like I said, it's like installing Slackware on a 1990s PC.
If you have patience, a Chromebook is a good idea. Like I said, very high quality hardware for the price. But you need patience.
I can see why you wouldn't want to advertise to people in Vietnam, but why wouldn't you want to advertise to Vietnamese people? There'd be a disproportionately high number who'd want to visit their birthplace or the birthplace of their parents, surely?
Perhaps because it's unlikely that situation would ever occur, or rather, it would only occur because of reasons that have nothing to do with them being hispanic. The only thing I can think of would be income, given hispanics have an average lower income than whites, in which case, why not target income instead of "race"?
Ultimately though targeting race in adverts is, except in very rare cases, going to make existing racial problems worse.
Sanders said nothing of the sort. He complained about the DNC not giving him a fair shot in the Democratic Primaries, but he never accused Clinton of rigging the election.
The majority of states are in Republican hands. Republicans, literally, count most of the votes in this country. They've also been at the forefront of voter suppression efforts trying to ensure traditionally democratic groups - such as car less, urban voters - have roadblocks Republican voters have already cleared. The idea that Clinton has any undue influence over the election is laughable.
Well, actually, Melania Trump has said he can be easily manipulated by C-list celeb gossip show hosts...
(But yeah, if the Republican leadership thought he was a manipulable puppet, why haven't they started yet?)
Those are pretty minor compared to what concerns most people about Trump (or Clinton, for that matter.)
There's a lot of people voting in this election who are voting for Clinton solely because she's up against Trump. If Trump wasn't a factor, they'd vote third party, in order to tell the Democratic party that it needs to move left to attract their support. Rubio is inoffensive and a fairly decent honorable man (I'm actually voting for him in the Senate race, this isn't a hypothetical "sure, you say it now, but..." - in part because he's shown leadership on difficult issues, and in part because his opponent is a useless sack of crap.) Likewise, despite the handicap of the last name, I don't think Clinton would stand a chance against Jeb Bush.
Clinton is only leading the polls because she's running against Trump. Trump horrifies virtually everyone outside of the alt-right, the old South, and those who have done no research whatsoever. And it tells you how unpopular Clinton is that even many of the people horrified by Trump are voting for him.
The unrelated investigation is apparently those into Anthony Weiner.
Which raises the question, I guess: was Weiner sending Hillary Clinton dick pics?
As someone posting to a nerd site, you should also point out Stein thinks Wifi may cause some sort of brain damage.
She's awful, though in fairness, who isn't in this election? The main thing going for Clinton that the others don't have is that 99% of the allegations constantly made against her are complete fiction, but frankly, that other 1% is pretty shitty.
It has a removable battery, and a headphone jack. You can't have those in a modern Web 3.0 Internet of Things Cloud based web browser engine, that's soooo 2015.
"Show runner" is rarely listed in the credits. Usually some other role that applies to the person who is the show runner is listed, such as Creator.
I like the fact they can be really misleading. Producer sounds like it's the "boss", but actually it's often an underling who has to get the stars coffee and make sure they're in good hotel rooms. Remember Jeremy Clarkson beating up his producer? He wasn't beating up his boss, he was beating up someone who worked for him. Executive Producer? Probably - though not always - some guy at the studio who approved funding the show.
The term has existed for decades. Producers and directors frequently change from show to show - writers too. Directors have a little creative input but work from a script he or she has little say in. The Producer's job is to make sure the Director can do his or her job. And an "Executive producer" is the person who fronts the cash, they rarely have any creative involvement at all.
None of those describe the person who owns the show creatively, who approves the scripts, determines the core storylines, manages the show's bible, etc. That person is the showrunner.
The only confusion here from what I can see is that for some reason it's rarely a job title shown in the credits. Usually - though not always - the showrunner is also the show's creator, so they just gets listed under that title. Vince Gilligan, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul's showrunner, is listed as "Creator", for example.
You may not have intended it, but your allegations are a searing indictment of Republicans (or whoever came up with the law you're describing), not of Democrats. There's absolutely nothing whatsoever wrong with rewarding people for voting. Voting is a civic duty, and a government with a "mandate" determined by a minority of those governed has no mandate at all. A law making it illegal to reward people for merely voting is at odds with that principle.
This story isn't about laws intended to stop rewarding people for voting. it's about laws intended to stop rewarding people for voting for a particular candidate, or punishing them for voting against that candidate. That's a legitimate law. Not something that punishes people for rewarding others for doing their civic duty.
...that Oracle is the Donald Trump of the computer world.
Well, clearly they'd be making money hand over fist if it wasn't for Vine ;-)
Must admit I'm baffled by the uproar on Twitter. It was never that popular a service, and it sucked when your timelines were stuffed by autoplaying Vines, as they were when the service started and it was still novel.
Unless the HOA has the rule at the time every single person in the neighborhood has moved in, then no, it shouldn't be able to make that decision.
HOAs are not democratic governments. They are only allowed to enforce the rules in their charters, and given the power they have, and the ease with which that power ends up being controlled by a tiny group of people, it's absolutely right they're limited in that way.
Bans on AirBNB need to be addressed through the democratic process.
Holy God, did someone actually come up with something useful HOAs can do?
Well, you're paying for what we computer people call "The Microsoft premium". As we all know, Microsoft's products aren't just designed to be powerful, but to have a design aesthetic that makes them just a little bit special compared to the competition. Apple has always been known for their powerful, but pedestrian, beige or gray thrown together boxes, with no thought given to how a device should look or feel or its usability. Whereas people buy Microsoft not just for the quality, but to own something a little special and little different from the boring old me-too machines from everyone else. A machine that looks friendly, and is friendly.
It's an ethos that may mean Microsoft only gets 2-3% of the market with its Lumia phones, or Zune music players, or Surface tablets, but it ends up getting the right 2-3%, discerning customers willing to pay more for a better product, who'll eventually influence those around them to do the same thing.
For more details, see my blog, Brave Plasma-sphere.
Jobs had little or nothing to do with the Lisa. In fact, the Mac was considered a rival project within Apple, even though it built upon significant amounts of the Lisa's R&D.
If Putin doesn't want 1941 to happen again - or rather, don't want to be embroiled again in a terrible war, - why is his regime trying to make enemies of the most powerful nations in the world?
As little as four years ago, Russia was a moderately respected nation about which our major beefs were homophobia and an apparently state sponsored murder of a former citizen on foreign soil. Now it's government is lying about its involvement in shooting down planes full of civilians, building giant bombs, and, whether the Russian government hacked US emails or not, Putin's assets have certainly been out in front making use of the leaked materials in an obvious effort to smear the likely winner of the current US election - from "reporting" on emails depicted as critical of Clinton sent by her friends that were actually forwarded news articles to publishing doctored copies with faked headers in an attempt to make Clinton look like a racist.
This is not the behavior of a country worried about war. It's the behavior of a demagogue eager to make war more likely.
If you mean FORTRAN, COBOL, et al by "real language", yeah it might have been once except for the fact the PC's implementation (CAPS "LOCK" is actually CAPS REVERSE SHIFT ON LETTERS) is broken too. Anyone who just wants a useful capitalization button has been SooL for a while.
The "Search" key on Chromebooks can be search, it can be Caps Lock if you want that, or it can be Control or Alt. Google has made it configurable.