Prior to 2001, the federal justice department had a policy that it would not pursue capital punishment in states which did not have their own death penalty. Given that, and Ferguson's 300 year sentence, there would be no reason for federal prosecutors to step in.
The *AAs use the word stealing when they talk about duplicating - copyright infringement produces two copies of the same work, the original owner hasn't lost anything. The parent is talking about accepting money to perform work, then not doing that work. His employer has lost money in the scenario, and received nothing in return.
While this probably would not be called stealing in court, you can see, I hope, that the one thing is more similar to stealing than the other.
Political capital is... Well I think sometimes it's used as a way to describe political favors, but most of the time it's a way of describing the good will of the electorate. A person who wins an election by a large margin is said to have a lot of political capitol, because that implies that a lot of people are supporting that person. Other politicians will more easily acquiesce to that person's agenda in order to curry favor with his supporters.
Trump did not win the election by a large margin (or any margin), and polls show that he's unpopular and his popularity is continuing to decline. So you would typically say that his political capitol is low. However, the fact that the election was such a surprise works to his advantage, particularly among Republicans - it showed that there is an mostly unknown, or at least unpolled, group of people of significant size who are associated with the right and who vote in an unpredictable way. So the fact that polls show Trump is unpopular isn't necessarily good enough to cost him his capitol. He will likely have substantial, but cautious, support among Republican politicians unless and until they lose in the midterms.
which side is more organized and sends a cohesive voice nightly or hourly?
Is that a trick question? I don't know. Until recently I would have said the Republican party - excluding the president, they still have much higher party discipline than the Democrats. Including the president, who has no discipline, it's more ambiguous. (See what I did there? Two different definitions of the word discipline? I made a joke at Trump's expense, I'll bet I'm the first one to do that.)
Also: Rush Limbaugh is saying that the democratic party is one of his arms? That seems more delusional than usual for him.
'"They" have figured out that the regulations "they're" always pushing for...' Who is "they"? That's a rhetorical question, this is obviously another smear on liberals. The great enemy.
Setting aside the fact that "they" are not a monolithic entity, so "they" don't exist, there is another way to read the summary above: where it says that these startups don't pursue mainstream medical business opportunities because "it can take more than a decade to make a return" you could read that as an issue with the regulations in place - we should be doing more to accommodate the silicon valley get-rich-quick business model. Or, you could read that as an issue with their business model - if they want to make money where other peoples' lives are on the line, they should be adapting their business model to meet the regulations designed to protect those lives.
In other words, maybe demanding massive returns in five years or less isn't the best way to approach every problem?
If you haven't used OpenELEC: it works... fine? I guess? I haven't seen any weird loading times or menu bugs. These are somewhat lessor issues though - the big thing that you're going to notice is that you can't change the SSH password. It's "openelec" for everyone.
Given that this is intended for HTPCs, SSH is the primary way you're going to be addressing any bugs you do run into, or any other customizations that you'd like to do (like setting up a remote control, for example). I also found it to be the easiest way to get media onto storage attached to my OpenELEC device. Since SSH can't be secured, this is going to leave you turning it on and off again constantly, any time you want to do something. And forgetting about it, of course, and leaving it on for long stretches.
In an election as close as that one, you can pick any factor and say, "This is why I lost." And it's true every time you say it, because changing one little thing would have flipped the results.
So: yes to Russian interference, yes to voter suppression, yes to the email thing, yes to pizzagate, yes to Comey's stunt, yes to the fact that she got pneumonia at an inopportune time. All of them are each individually the reason why she lost.
What is this nonsense? Who called it a treaty? Where are you getting this from?
Do you even know what a treaty is? Do you know what an agreement is? Do you know what the constitution actually requires? It doesn't say: "The President is congress' little bitch and has to get approval before he says anything to anyone." Under the present circumstances that may be an unfortunate truth, but it is a truth.
No, the gripe is a legitimate one. The way RT's scoring works, a mediocre movie that everyone agrees is mediocre will get a very low score, while a really bad movie which appeals to a small number of people will get a better score. A controversial movie will get a score in the middle, and the top end has the same problem as the bottom - scoring is more about agreement between critics than it is about how much the critics like or dislike the film.
It's not a great system. Does anyone know why Rotten Tomatoes seems to be the popular one, while others (like Metacritic) are less often cited?
This is the best we could have hoped for, short of Netflix dedicating a lot of resources to fight this. He comes right out and says that killing Net Neutrality hurts small players and favors large companies. This is exactly what it does, and it certainly helps to have someone in his position spell it out in such plain language.
You may have missed the point: the tickets are not there for the customer, they're there for the theater chain. This company is trying to do something that the entire film industry hates, so in order to make that happen it needs to get all of the members of the industry on board. That means cutting in the movie theaters, even though they're contributing nothing to this.
The tickets are there so that everyone can pretend that the theaters are a relevant part of this deal, and possibly for legal reasons. It wouldn't surprise me if there were laws against that sort of thing.
I'm consistently impressed with how dedicated Africans seem to be to education. It perhaps over-emphasizes youth, but it does seem very forward thinking.
(Albeit, it's probably unreasonable to lump all of Africa together. I'm sure there are some African countries / groups who don't give a shit about education.)
The thing about the North Carolina bill was that the bathroom thing was just distraction - a clever way to get people talking about something trivial, while the real substance of the bill was about allowing for broader discriminatory practices. I'm not seeing that here. I've skimmed a few articles and as near as I can tell this one really does seem to be about bathrooms. Is that true?
If there's a better article which discusses exactly what this bill covers, could someone direct me to it?
Your Thunderbird link is ten years old. Here's one from two years ago showing increased usage over that time. An AC posted a link to an article talking about the Mozilla foundation dropping Thunderbird, here's a recent article showing that that's a mischaracterization - Thunderbird isn't going anywhere.
It's true that Firefox is losing market share, but so is everyone else relative to Chrome. It's still at #2 for desktop browsers, which is a pretty big deal even if the total share is small percentage-wise.
These rules are made by elected representatives, just indirectly - the FCC exists because congress created it to do this, and congress can overrule the FCC on any issue it chooses.
For the most part, I think that Slashdot's user moderation system is the best available on the internet. Not that it doesn't have significant flaws, just that most of how it works seems to be well considered (and I haven't encountered anything better). That includes the fact that people can't both mod and post to the same story. This aspect means that even when mods are partisan and want to upmod posts that they agree with and downmod the others, they still have to read what other people have written. There's some minimum degree of exposure to other viewpoints that mods have to go through before they can take sides in an argument. It's not a lot, but it's something.
The fact that the parent above made a ridiculous claim, "Who is rioting over speech they disagree with? It isn't Trump supporters." and got modded up for it isn't surprising - you can mod up a comment that you agree with and stop there, no need to keep reading or dig any deeper. Maybe that's why they modded it up and maybe it isn't, but the fact that the parent is now sitting at +5 doesn't leave me confused. However, in response to that I posted a link to an article about a literal, no-hyperbole, torch wielding mob of white supremacists chanting pro-Trump slogans. The post above this one got modded -1, Troll. Somehow, someone read far enough down in this thread to see my comment, read what I had written, and completely ignore it. Sometimes I wish the mods could post to the same stories they moderate, because sometimes I want an explanation.
Who? You? Or the torch-wielding mob of white supremacists? I guess it doesn't matter, I didn't see any mocking from either of you. All I saw was a guy on slashdot who's blind to the world, and a torch-wielding mob of white supremacists.
Well... your cell phone provider knows where you are and who you call, but it doesn't know anything about what you do on your computer or tablet (assuming you're connecting via your home network for those). This does feel more like a feature for attracting customers than a tool for spying, but I'm sure they're collecting information too.
You can get around the CC requirement on the App store, but you have to know how to do it. Basically, you need to create your Apple account from within the app store. If you create your account on the website or anywhere other than from within the App store or iTunes then you don't have the option.
Apple does have this information on their website, if you dig for it, but you won't find it anywhere when you're actually trying to get something from the App store.
Ideally no, VPNs are a stopgap measure. If you can't trust your ISP, and you can't choose a better ISP, then you've got to pick a VPN and hope that you can trust them instead. This is true for almost all of the United States, which I guess is what you were saying, but... asking which VPN to use is not what the question should be.
Are you saying that you don't need to activate iPhones in Europe at all? Or just that you don't need the SIM card? It's really the activation - registering with Apple - that we're talking about here. That's what DJI is doing.
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Prior to 2001, the federal justice department had a policy that it would not pursue capital punishment in states which did not have their own death penalty. Given that, and Ferguson's 300 year sentence, there would be no reason for federal prosecutors to step in.
The *AAs use the word stealing when they talk about duplicating - copyright infringement produces two copies of the same work, the original owner hasn't lost anything. The parent is talking about accepting money to perform work, then not doing that work. His employer has lost money in the scenario, and received nothing in return.
While this probably would not be called stealing in court, you can see, I hope, that the one thing is more similar to stealing than the other.
Political capital is... Well I think sometimes it's used as a way to describe political favors, but most of the time it's a way of describing the good will of the electorate. A person who wins an election by a large margin is said to have a lot of political capitol, because that implies that a lot of people are supporting that person. Other politicians will more easily acquiesce to that person's agenda in order to curry favor with his supporters.
Trump did not win the election by a large margin (or any margin), and polls show that he's unpopular and his popularity is continuing to decline. So you would typically say that his political capitol is low. However, the fact that the election was such a surprise works to his advantage, particularly among Republicans - it showed that there is an mostly unknown, or at least unpolled, group of people of significant size who are associated with the right and who vote in an unpredictable way. So the fact that polls show Trump is unpopular isn't necessarily good enough to cost him his capitol. He will likely have substantial, but cautious, support among Republican politicians unless and until they lose in the midterms.
Resorting to a false equivalence? That sounds like something a stupid person would say.
which side is more organized and sends a cohesive voice nightly or hourly?
Is that a trick question? I don't know. Until recently I would have said the Republican party - excluding the president, they still have much higher party discipline than the Democrats. Including the president, who has no discipline, it's more ambiguous. (See what I did there? Two different definitions of the word discipline? I made a joke at Trump's expense, I'll bet I'm the first one to do that.)
Also: Rush Limbaugh is saying that the democratic party is one of his arms? That seems more delusional than usual for him.
'"They" have figured out that the regulations "they're" always pushing for...' Who is "they"? That's a rhetorical question, this is obviously another smear on liberals. The great enemy.
Setting aside the fact that "they" are not a monolithic entity, so "they" don't exist, there is another way to read the summary above: where it says that these startups don't pursue mainstream medical business opportunities because "it can take more than a decade to make a return" you could read that as an issue with the regulations in place - we should be doing more to accommodate the silicon valley get-rich-quick business model. Or, you could read that as an issue with their business model - if they want to make money where other peoples' lives are on the line, they should be adapting their business model to meet the regulations designed to protect those lives.
In other words, maybe demanding massive returns in five years or less isn't the best way to approach every problem?
Thanks for laying that out, that was informative.
If you haven't used OpenELEC: it works... fine? I guess? I haven't seen any weird loading times or menu bugs. These are somewhat lessor issues though - the big thing that you're going to notice is that you can't change the SSH password. It's "openelec" for everyone.
Given that this is intended for HTPCs, SSH is the primary way you're going to be addressing any bugs you do run into, or any other customizations that you'd like to do (like setting up a remote control, for example). I also found it to be the easiest way to get media onto storage attached to my OpenELEC device. Since SSH can't be secured, this is going to leave you turning it on and off again constantly, any time you want to do something. And forgetting about it, of course, and leaving it on for long stretches.
In an election as close as that one, you can pick any factor and say, "This is why I lost." And it's true every time you say it, because changing one little thing would have flipped the results.
So: yes to Russian interference, yes to voter suppression, yes to the email thing, yes to pizzagate, yes to Comey's stunt, yes to the fact that she got pneumonia at an inopportune time. All of them are each individually the reason why she lost.
What is this nonsense? Who called it a treaty? Where are you getting this from?
Do you even know what a treaty is? Do you know what an agreement is? Do you know what the constitution actually requires? It doesn't say: "The President is congress' little bitch and has to get approval before he says anything to anyone." Under the present circumstances that may be an unfortunate truth, but it is a truth.
No, the gripe is a legitimate one. The way RT's scoring works, a mediocre movie that everyone agrees is mediocre will get a very low score, while a really bad movie which appeals to a small number of people will get a better score. A controversial movie will get a score in the middle, and the top end has the same problem as the bottom - scoring is more about agreement between critics than it is about how much the critics like or dislike the film.
It's not a great system. Does anyone know why Rotten Tomatoes seems to be the popular one, while others (like Metacritic) are less often cited?
This is the best we could have hoped for, short of Netflix dedicating a lot of resources to fight this. He comes right out and says that killing Net Neutrality hurts small players and favors large companies. This is exactly what it does, and it certainly helps to have someone in his position spell it out in such plain language.
You may have missed the point: the tickets are not there for the customer, they're there for the theater chain. This company is trying to do something that the entire film industry hates, so in order to make that happen it needs to get all of the members of the industry on board. That means cutting in the movie theaters, even though they're contributing nothing to this.
The tickets are there so that everyone can pretend that the theaters are a relevant part of this deal, and possibly for legal reasons. It wouldn't surprise me if there were laws against that sort of thing.
I'm consistently impressed with how dedicated Africans seem to be to education. It perhaps over-emphasizes youth, but it does seem very forward thinking.
(Albeit, it's probably unreasonable to lump all of Africa together. I'm sure there are some African countries / groups who don't give a shit about education.)
The thing about the North Carolina bill was that the bathroom thing was just distraction - a clever way to get people talking about something trivial, while the real substance of the bill was about allowing for broader discriminatory practices. I'm not seeing that here. I've skimmed a few articles and as near as I can tell this one really does seem to be about bathrooms. Is that true?
If there's a better article which discusses exactly what this bill covers, could someone direct me to it?
Your Thunderbird link is ten years old. Here's one from two years ago showing increased usage over that time. An AC posted a link to an article talking about the Mozilla foundation dropping Thunderbird, here's a recent article showing that that's a mischaracterization - Thunderbird isn't going anywhere.
It's true that Firefox is losing market share, but so is everyone else relative to Chrome. It's still at #2 for desktop browsers, which is a pretty big deal even if the total share is small percentage-wise.
These rules are made by elected representatives, just indirectly - the FCC exists because congress created it to do this, and congress can overrule the FCC on any issue it chooses.
For the most part, I think that Slashdot's user moderation system is the best available on the internet. Not that it doesn't have significant flaws, just that most of how it works seems to be well considered (and I haven't encountered anything better). That includes the fact that people can't both mod and post to the same story. This aspect means that even when mods are partisan and want to upmod posts that they agree with and downmod the others, they still have to read what other people have written. There's some minimum degree of exposure to other viewpoints that mods have to go through before they can take sides in an argument. It's not a lot, but it's something.
The fact that the parent above made a ridiculous claim, "Who is rioting over speech they disagree with? It isn't Trump supporters." and got modded up for it isn't surprising - you can mod up a comment that you agree with and stop there, no need to keep reading or dig any deeper. Maybe that's why they modded it up and maybe it isn't, but the fact that the parent is now sitting at +5 doesn't leave me confused. However, in response to that I posted a link to an article about a literal, no-hyperbole, torch wielding mob of white supremacists chanting pro-Trump slogans. The post above this one got modded -1, Troll. Somehow, someone read far enough down in this thread to see my comment, read what I had written, and completely ignore it. Sometimes I wish the mods could post to the same stories they moderate, because sometimes I want an explanation.
Who? You? Or the torch-wielding mob of white supremacists? I guess it doesn't matter, I didn't see any mocking from either of you. All I saw was a guy on slashdot who's blind to the world, and a torch-wielding mob of white supremacists.
It isn't Trump supporters? Really? They were chanting “Russia is our friend" - it sure seems like they were Trump supporters.
Well... your cell phone provider knows where you are and who you call, but it doesn't know anything about what you do on your computer or tablet (assuming you're connecting via your home network for those). This does feel more like a feature for attracting customers than a tool for spying, but I'm sure they're collecting information too.
When everything is legal, there are no criminals.
You can get around the CC requirement on the App store, but you have to know how to do it. Basically, you need to create your Apple account from within the app store. If you create your account on the website or anywhere other than from within the App store or iTunes then you don't have the option.
Apple does have this information on their website, if you dig for it, but you won't find it anywhere when you're actually trying to get something from the App store.
Ideally no, VPNs are a stopgap measure. If you can't trust your ISP, and you can't choose a better ISP, then you've got to pick a VPN and hope that you can trust them instead. This is true for almost all of the United States, which I guess is what you were saying, but... asking which VPN to use is not what the question should be.
Are you saying that you don't need to activate iPhones in Europe at all? Or just that you don't need the SIM card? It's really the activation - registering with Apple - that we're talking about here. That's what DJI is doing.