Yeah, normally every president waits until he's sworn in before he starts doing anything. Since Trump started preparing for things in advance, the people he hired started work as well, w/o necessarily running a parallel policy. Flynn originally denied that he discussed the lifting of sanctions, and later changed that to 'he didn't recall whether that came up'. Worst case scenario - even if he did, nothing unlawful or even unethical about it: it's this administrations prerogative to change the policy towards Russia, just like it was Obama's prerogative to change the policy towards Israel
Was this that great document that got splashed on Buzzfeed and cited on CNN, thereby earning the latter Trump's permanent stamp of 'Fake News' and crashing their reputation among all but the most loony on the Left such as you?
Interesting you should say this. One of my friends and his family was planning to visit the UK last fall, but after a stabbing jihad attack in London, he canned that plan and went to the Canadian Rockies instead.
Most of the posters on/., as well as members of 'The Resistance' are pissed that people from countries like Somalia, Yemen, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Sudan and Syria are being stopped from coming to the US. They should put their money where their mouth is and go to one of these countries on vacation, instead of talking places like Sri Lanka or New Zealand or other such places
Flynn was named the National Security Advisor in the transition team, so meeting w/ envoys of other countries to discuss the agenda would have been part of his job description. In other words, him meeting the envoy of one of the world's 2 other superpowers would have been pretty high on his list.
The OP's post is just a carryover of Democrat bitterness over losing the elections, and trying to illegitimize the role of Wikileaks here by tying it to Russia. Even though Assange has stated that Russia was not the source of his leaks. In fact, unlike in the physical world where only national spy agencies might have certain capabilities, in the cyber world, anybody can hack email systems. Particularly ones protected by passwords that are 'password'
USA doesn't want tourists visiting the country
or business people doing trade deals
I'm sure the tourists from the Middle East are big spenders in the United States. Perhaps the sheiks running the OPEC oil cartel spend money as tourists? I'm sure they go to Disney World and east ginormous hamburgers. [/sarcasm]
The countries listed don't exactly have the oil rich sheikhs, despite all being Arab Muslim countries (except Iran).
The court that just halted it has a record of being overturned 4 out of 5 times in the Supreme Court. The President does have absolute power here. Trump gets attention when he goes to the restroom, and people on his side have been dismayed that he's been stepping on positive stories, such as the tax cut yesterday. As for the translators and the pilots, exemptions can be granted, but there have been cases of translators being caught being spies for the enemy.
This point exactly. I get a pretty good life out of my iPhone 7, and usually just charge it overnight. During the day, if I'm not using it, I leave it charged. If I need to use it, I just unplug it normally and plug it back when done. In the car, if for any reason I needed to use it, I'd keep it plugged in charged. While I could use it as an iPad, I don't. Nor do I use it to navigate - I have my car GPS. I use this phone mainly for FaceTime/WhatsApp
Your second point is an interesting one. As it is, Apple is trying to standardize on USB Type C, so dropping the charging port would enable them to stop supporting the Lightning connector standard as well. If you want a headphone, they'll suggest the earbuds, and if you want to charge, then the wireless charge. So no reason to have that, and that makes it easier for you to dive into the pool w/ your phone and continue that conversation w/ your girlfriend (I'll ignore that you're on/.)
One thing: even for Apple, you can use a standard power adaptor: just carry your micro-USB to lightning adaptor w/ you whenever you go, and have it handy, if charging is something you need to do frequently.
Having said all that though, reading this story, my iPhone 7 is probably my last phone - until it drops dead. It had one thing that my old 5s doesn't - Apple Pay, and it also had one thing when I first got it that nothing else at the time had - FaceTime. Today, WhatsApp has video calling as well, so I don't have a compelling need for an iPhone, aside from Apple Pay
I recently upgraded from a 5s to a 7. I passed on the 5s to my niece, so I don't have that option. I'd assume a lot of people would, not just could, hand over older but perfectly good phones to family members or relatives
That would be a Samsung only patent that Apple can't copy: Samsung could successfully sue them in the International Court of Justice in the Hague if they try it
This absolutely!!! Even though Classic Shell was originally designed for Windows 8, I found that it works even better w/ Windows 10 once it's on there, and one has the choice of making it look like 7, XP or even NT. Every time I get any Windows 10 box, I install Classic Shell, and I'm good to go.
The ReactOS project should make Classic Shell its default UI, instead of trying to reinvent that wheel
Precisely. Aero was good enough, but for some reason, they need to come up w/ this? Like there is a shortage of the 'make it look sleek' features on their platforms? To the extent there is, it's self inflicted starting from the Windows 8 saga
Throughout the 90s, nobody even thought about Islam: everybody assumed that since the Cold War was over, we would live happily ever after. That despite things like the First WTC bombing, the Khobar Towers bombing, the Embassy bombings in Kenya & Tanzanya, the USS Cole and finally 9/11.
And since 9/11, there have been more that 30,000 deadly Jihad attacks worldwide, this before there were any US troops in Afghanistan or Iraq. Yeah, there were US troops in KSA, but that was at the behest of the Saudi government in response to Saddam Hussein's 1991 occupation of Kuwait. People make the same assumptions you do b'cos they know nothing about the Islamic doctrines of Jihad, and the necessity to keep spreading Islamic law worldwide until Islam becomes supreme
Actually, this is a problem w/ Apple and Microsoft's news apps. I've deleted them from my phones. In Windows 8, Microsoft had a somewhat good system where you could enter any news site that you wanted, and get the news only from there, but they got rid of that flexibility in Windows 10.
Actually, the 'alt-right' is real, but not in the way that Leftist clowns like to depict it. It's a genuine fissure on the Right
Traditional Conservatism - of the type that the Bushes and the GOP establishment loved - was the international, free trade, open borders & immigration, service Wall Street policies across the board. Also, they were stuck in the Cold War era, and Russia simply succeeded the Soviet Union as the #1 enemy. For those who think it's a personality issue w/ Putin, they were not supportive of Yeltsin either. But even though Communism was dead - at least in terms of losing the Soviet Union and all of Eastern Europe, they pretended that Communism was still the major ideological enemy. Granted, it's making a strong showing in the US w/ Sen Warren and in the UK w/ Jeremy Corbin, but it's not the threat to the rest of the world the way it was during the Cold War. Islam has replaced it in that aspect, but the traditional Conservatives are still cozy w/ the likes of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Islamic countries.
The Alt Right has for the first time put a lot of these sacred cows to the slaughter (being a Hindu, I don't like this analogy, but it's all I can think of at the moment). They recognize that Islam is the biggest threat to the West, which is why they're not obsessed w/ Russia in the way that the Republican establishment is. They recognize that trade deals like NAFTA haven't worked for the US, and are happy to revisit it. They are the only ones looking at H1B abuse: the traditional Conservatives want to service the businesses that want them, while the Liberals want the future votes of the new citizens. They are the ones questioning whether NATO is still relevant, given its inclusion of Turkey, which is on the Islamic side of this conflict.
While Trump may have moved this a bit, and Bannon is key in getting a lot of alt right policies in, the party as a whole hasn't yet shifted that way, except maybe in the Rust Belt states that Trump won this time around. Hopefully, by the next elections, they succeed in taking over the GOP, and purging the likes of McCain, Graham, Collins and so on.
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Yeah, normally every president waits until he's sworn in before he starts doing anything. Since Trump started preparing for things in advance, the people he hired started work as well, w/o necessarily running a parallel policy. Flynn originally denied that he discussed the lifting of sanctions, and later changed that to 'he didn't recall whether that came up'. Worst case scenario - even if he did, nothing unlawful or even unethical about it: it's this administrations prerogative to change the policy towards Russia, just like it was Obama's prerogative to change the policy towards Israel
Was this that great document that got splashed on Buzzfeed and cited on CNN, thereby earning the latter Trump's permanent stamp of 'Fake News' and crashing their reputation among all but the most loony on the Left such as you?
What about all the Xbox games that Microsoft has? There's nothing stopping anyone from developing games for Xbox, and that's not going to Steam
Countries that this administration wants to block people from, and which 'The Resistance' is against?
Interesting you should say this. One of my friends and his family was planning to visit the UK last fall, but after a stabbing jihad attack in London, he canned that plan and went to the Canadian Rockies instead.
Most of the posters on /., as well as members of 'The Resistance' are pissed that people from countries like Somalia, Yemen, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Sudan and Syria are being stopped from coming to the US. They should put their money where their mouth is and go to one of these countries on vacation, instead of talking places like Sri Lanka or New Zealand or other such places
Flynn was named the National Security Advisor in the transition team, so meeting w/ envoys of other countries to discuss the agenda would have been part of his job description. In other words, him meeting the envoy of one of the world's 2 other superpowers would have been pretty high on his list.
The OP's post is just a carryover of Democrat bitterness over losing the elections, and trying to illegitimize the role of Wikileaks here by tying it to Russia. Even though Assange has stated that Russia was not the source of his leaks. In fact, unlike in the physical world where only national spy agencies might have certain capabilities, in the cyber world, anybody can hack email systems. Particularly ones protected by passwords that are 'password'
If you see parallels b/w Trump and Hitler, then even describing your historian status as 'amateur' is being flattery
USA doesn't want tourists visiting the country or business people doing trade deals
I'm sure the tourists from the Middle East are big spenders in the United States. Perhaps the sheiks running the OPEC oil cartel spend money as tourists? I'm sure they go to Disney World and east ginormous hamburgers. [/sarcasm]
The countries listed don't exactly have the oil rich sheikhs, despite all being Arab Muslim countries (except Iran).
The court that just halted it has a record of being overturned 4 out of 5 times in the Supreme Court. The President does have absolute power here. Trump gets attention when he goes to the restroom, and people on his side have been dismayed that he's been stepping on positive stories, such as the tax cut yesterday. As for the translators and the pilots, exemptions can be granted, but there have been cases of translators being caught being spies for the enemy.
This point exactly. I get a pretty good life out of my iPhone 7, and usually just charge it overnight. During the day, if I'm not using it, I leave it charged. If I need to use it, I just unplug it normally and plug it back when done. In the car, if for any reason I needed to use it, I'd keep it plugged in charged. While I could use it as an iPad, I don't. Nor do I use it to navigate - I have my car GPS. I use this phone mainly for FaceTime/WhatsApp
Your second point is an interesting one. As it is, Apple is trying to standardize on USB Type C, so dropping the charging port would enable them to stop supporting the Lightning connector standard as well. If you want a headphone, they'll suggest the earbuds, and if you want to charge, then the wireless charge. So no reason to have that, and that makes it easier for you to dive into the pool w/ your phone and continue that conversation w/ your girlfriend (I'll ignore that you're on /.)
One thing: even for Apple, you can use a standard power adaptor: just carry your micro-USB to lightning adaptor w/ you whenever you go, and have it handy, if charging is something you need to do frequently.
Having said all that though, reading this story, my iPhone 7 is probably my last phone - until it drops dead. It had one thing that my old 5s doesn't - Apple Pay, and it also had one thing when I first got it that nothing else at the time had - FaceTime. Today, WhatsApp has video calling as well, so I don't have a compelling need for an iPhone, aside from Apple Pay
Ain't that how electric toothbrushes even today charge - the ones that don't come w/ a battery, but instead w/ a charging stand? I have one from Braun
I recently upgraded from a 5s to a 7. I passed on the 5s to my niece, so I don't have that option. I'd assume a lot of people would, not just could, hand over older but perfectly good phones to family members or relatives
How does one know how to align such a phone w/ a microwave?
That would be a Samsung only patent that Apple can't copy: Samsung could successfully sue them in the International Court of Justice in the Hague if they try it
You mean the @POTUS twitter account? He didn't - he used his own.
This absolutely!!! Even though Classic Shell was originally designed for Windows 8, I found that it works even better w/ Windows 10 once it's on there, and one has the choice of making it look like 7, XP or even NT. Every time I get any Windows 10 box, I install Classic Shell, and I'm good to go.
The ReactOS project should make Classic Shell its default UI, instead of trying to reinvent that wheel
They have!!! Didn't you see the news about them coming up w/ green screens, red screens and so on?
Think, and it will appear!!! That's what they mean by a 'language'
Aero itself was great, but this is re-inventing the wheel. Just put Classic Shell on your Windows 10, enable the Aero theme and you're good to go
Precisely. Aero was good enough, but for some reason, they need to come up w/ this? Like there is a shortage of the 'make it look sleek' features on their platforms? To the extent there is, it's self inflicted starting from the Windows 8 saga
Throughout the 90s, nobody even thought about Islam: everybody assumed that since the Cold War was over, we would live happily ever after. That despite things like the First WTC bombing, the Khobar Towers bombing, the Embassy bombings in Kenya & Tanzanya, the USS Cole and finally 9/11.
And since 9/11, there have been more that 30,000 deadly Jihad attacks worldwide, this before there were any US troops in Afghanistan or Iraq. Yeah, there were US troops in KSA, but that was at the behest of the Saudi government in response to Saddam Hussein's 1991 occupation of Kuwait. People make the same assumptions you do b'cos they know nothing about the Islamic doctrines of Jihad, and the necessity to keep spreading Islamic law worldwide until Islam becomes supreme
What exactly is a 'Paleocon'? I knew it as a Jew hating Conservative - the types that CNN once used to have - Bob Novak, Pat Buchanan and John Sununu
Oh yeah, the 21st century version of 'The Soviets were not true Communists'. That famous 'No true Scotsman' argument
Actually, this is a problem w/ Apple and Microsoft's news apps. I've deleted them from my phones. In Windows 8, Microsoft had a somewhat good system where you could enter any news site that you wanted, and get the news only from there, but they got rid of that flexibility in Windows 10.
Actually, the 'alt-right' is real, but not in the way that Leftist clowns like to depict it. It's a genuine fissure on the Right
Traditional Conservatism - of the type that the Bushes and the GOP establishment loved - was the international, free trade, open borders & immigration, service Wall Street policies across the board. Also, they were stuck in the Cold War era, and Russia simply succeeded the Soviet Union as the #1 enemy. For those who think it's a personality issue w/ Putin, they were not supportive of Yeltsin either. But even though Communism was dead - at least in terms of losing the Soviet Union and all of Eastern Europe, they pretended that Communism was still the major ideological enemy. Granted, it's making a strong showing in the US w/ Sen Warren and in the UK w/ Jeremy Corbin, but it's not the threat to the rest of the world the way it was during the Cold War. Islam has replaced it in that aspect, but the traditional Conservatives are still cozy w/ the likes of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Islamic countries.
The Alt Right has for the first time put a lot of these sacred cows to the slaughter (being a Hindu, I don't like this analogy, but it's all I can think of at the moment). They recognize that Islam is the biggest threat to the West, which is why they're not obsessed w/ Russia in the way that the Republican establishment is. They recognize that trade deals like NAFTA haven't worked for the US, and are happy to revisit it. They are the only ones looking at H1B abuse: the traditional Conservatives want to service the businesses that want them, while the Liberals want the future votes of the new citizens. They are the ones questioning whether NATO is still relevant, given its inclusion of Turkey, which is on the Islamic side of this conflict.
While Trump may have moved this a bit, and Bannon is key in getting a lot of alt right policies in, the party as a whole hasn't yet shifted that way, except maybe in the Rust Belt states that Trump won this time around. Hopefully, by the next elections, they succeed in taking over the GOP, and purging the likes of McCain, Graham, Collins and so on.