Looks like the Canadians, who were only too happy to take in Muslim 'refugees' from the Middle East, were far less enthusiastic about Trump-hating 'Muricans coming over, despite the initial red carpet rollout that they had during the transition.
If Trudeau wins the next election, we'll need a wall on the Northern border as well.
Actually, why doesn't Canada simply adapt the US dollar as their currency? As it is, the currencies are neck & neck in value, many US companies also operate in Canada, the 2 countries share the same ISD code, sending mail to Canada is like sending mail to the US in that one just has to mention the code of the Canadian province in question (unlike sending mail to Australia or UK). For all that matters, the US & Canada could be like the EU (sans the regulations) when it comes to being a single economic entity.
WRONG. People are CHOOSING to leave because of the tax rates. Force is a completely different concept and generally involves violence or the the threat of violence in this context.
If somebody cannot afford something, then following a path that gets him/her out of that expense is being forced: it's not a choice!
Violence is not the only image of force: extortion is. If somebody is living somewhere and paying $1000 as rent, and the rent is suddenly jacked up to $2000, then that person is forced to leave, even if no violence is involved in him arriving at the decision.
This is precisely why cryptocurrency was invented - to skirt the law and avoid moral responsibilities. Its sole purpose is as an enabler of criminal activity.
Just fucking ban this fake monopoly money bullshit already.
If that's the case, why are companies like JP Morgan Chase and RBS using Ethereum as a blockchain in various projects?
How North Korea is getting around the sanctions is less important than the who is helping them do it. Aside from the often mentioned China, it's Iran - who has ready money for any nuclear technology that Pyongyang would be willing to give them - and Pakistan, who was one of the enablers of North Korea's nuclear program.
Depressing as it sounds particularly due to its potential fallout in Seoul, war seems to be almost inevitable in Korea right now. All the conversations about whether they can strike Guam or Seattle or Los Angeles is irrelevant: everybody knows that they can strike Seoul and aside from the Koreans, kill thousands of Americans, and not just troops on the DMZ. Congress needs to rescind the 80s law that bans assassinations of foreign leaders, and then the US needs to stage an internal coup to remove Kim Jong Un & family.
In the 90s, they could have used the highest frequency DEC Alphas of the day to do the heating. Has the Itanium been EOLed, or is it still around? If it is, and if they can get a discount from Intel, they could use that for the heat generation
"Leaks" about Apple products are just hyped up press releases.
Not just that, leaks about those products are another reason to buy up existing iPhones like 7, 6s while they are still around. Before the newer phones are out that get rid of the home button, and lord knows what else. Not to mention a $400 hike in the prices of the phones.
When Firefox introduced the concept of staging RSS feeds on the Bookmarks browser, that became a must have for me in terms of news. As a result, any websites I follow for news, I do on FireFox. Previously, I did that on Internet Explorer as well, but Edge very helpfully got rid of that.
I do use Chrome/Chromium but to exclusively follow Google specific sites, like YouTube, or for things like certain financial transactions where the apps are inadequate.
The issue is not that he's right about something, but that he criticizes everything, w/o ever having a viable alternative. It's like people who rant that 'politics suck' but refuse to support people they most agree w/ b'cos 'they have no chance of winning'. He doesn't have to start a company or anything himself: he can put together a concept, get together w/ any startup and agree w/ them on a marketing plan that helps that company produce something that satisfies all his requirements while at the same time having a business model that keeps them afloat.
But his problem is that he's an all or nothing guy - 'my way or the highway'. TiVo uses a Linux based box to do DVR and pause live TV: his solution is to come up w/ GPL3 and an 'anti-TiVoization' clause that makes it potentially impossible for any company like TiVo to make money while still being in compliance w/ both his license and content producers' copyrights. All the projects that FSF/GNU have come out w/ have been half baked, and largely unfit for human consumption, unless the consumer happens to have grown up on lisp and emacs. Hey, let him or someone who likes him produce a tablet that has Replicant and an entire slew of AGPL services, and I'll happily eat my words, w/ a generous side-dish of crow!
If a theater critic can find nothing but flaws in every play, then yeah, it's worth a shot. Or else, just stop watching them, and find another line of work. It's one thing for a critic to like some things and dislike others, but that's not what Stallman does. As an example, look at his criticism of all Linux distros that have any popular following: the only ones he endorses are fringe ones like gNewSense, Trisquel and so on.
Stallman would have us all live like the Amish, while he himself plays in a time warp in the 70s, where everybody worked on teletype terminals on really arcane software. Computing has advanced eons since then, but he's still stuck there. People are not going to abandon things like FaceBook & Twitter - flawed as they are in terms of freedom of expression - when those things have not only helped people keep in touch w/ each other w/o bringing down phone lines, but also, have helped people in critical situations like in Harvey & Irma.
THIS!!! Absolutely THIS!!! I'd have a lot more respect for him had he and his FSF actually built a total GNU based system, complete w/ (say) Replicant, gnu, gnustep or gnome, gnu Network, gnu Social, and all the other good stuff listed in the GNU page. Create a package, then create a tablet/phone/netbook that can work these, price it something that would cover both the costs as well as the FSF union, and then market it. If it's a phone, it can use SIMs from anybody, except the legacy CDMA guys, it can use WiFi. Heck, he can even build around it some AGPL 3.0 services that can be sold packaged w/ that to offer IP calls, both audio and video. In fact, build a whole ecosystem around it, and sell it!!!
Instead, he comes up w/ stupid slogans and names for products he doesn't like, like iBad. Reason: for all his denials, he just hates capitalism and the free market (just check out Stallman.org for his latest cause de jour, which today happens to be the 9/11 assassination of President Allende of Chile & his replacement by Pinochet. Looking forward to his denunciation of the death sentence of Socrates next week.) He's incapable of either organizing nor backing a company that could transform his supposed dreams into reality (as Red Hat's former CEO Bob Young once said, Stallman knows how to treat his friends as his enemies).
And it's not like Corporate America would shun the likes of him either. If anything, Corporate America has shifted far left today - its backing of DACA, Paris Accord, support to Antifa, et al. Although I'm sure he'll still find reasons to find fault w/ them, just like he did w/ common Linux distros
The phone is a Lumia 550 - one of the 3 models that came preloaded w/ Windows 10 Mobile. It's W10M that's giving me these issues, not WP8.1. Namely, no more WiFi. Most WP8.1 phones are not upgradable to W10M and should be fine
(g) is the reason I originally bought this phone. But if I'm travelling, particularly outside the US, I'd rather use something like WhatsApp's audio calling or video calling to avoid international roaming charges, but now, that's impossible w/ WiFi gone. I've reset my phone, and staged it to be ready to be handed to anyone who just needs a dumb phone w/ a good texting app and a good driving mode. Which would be your (i)
(k) - again WiFi would need to work, unless you have real unlimited mobile data. I had Speedtest as one of the apps
No, I haven't. Windows' Phone companion is completely redundant if I connect my Lumia to the laptop via USB, and the integration seems to have come apart. Like if I open up the 'Messaging' app on the desktop, it doesn't show or download my text messages from the phone, like it used to. That one used to be handy, in case I wanted to type SMS messages on my laptop while chatting w/ people. It's almost like the converse of what MS did to Nokia w/ Elop, Samsung seems to be doing to Microsoft }:-) Getting them to internally sabotage their existing Windows phone platform to make it completely unusable by current users, so that they are forced to look at Galaxies (which the MS store now sells) or iPhones.
I've not tried VLC: does it support playlists? Even if it does, I doubt an iPod player, like my car's, will be able to read it while I'm driving. The 2017 model of my car has a nav unit that supports both CarPlay and Android Auto, but the current 2014 model that I have just supports an iPod player.
That model - my first smartphone - came w/ Windows Phone 8.1 and is not upgradable, so it comes w/ not just Bing Maps, but HERE maps and HERE directions as well. It certainly was great for that purpose!
Any old iPhone would still functionally be an iPod, so if you had moved on and still have it around, you can use it in your car, particularly if it has an iPod player in the navigation unit. That way, one can navigate b/w songs while they drive.
All the things you mentioned were fine, until the WiFi stopped working. I don't want to burn cellular data on it when I have WiFi at home already that this phone will no longer let me use. Microsoft can claim what it likes, but when it's disabled an essential part of a platform they are abandoning, they seem to be clearly telling current users happy w/ their phones to stop using it
Now that you mention it, I had forgotten about the Insider Program before I erased it. I have the 550 - the entry level W10M phone. I did participate in the insider program for Windows 10 before it debuted, but haven't touched it since
Of the 4 things you mention, I disagree about the camera - since I have an iPhone 7 as well. I don't know about its GPS, since I do have a navigation unit in my car. On the PDA thing, I just wish it had Franklin Covey in it, maybe integrated into Outlook (which comes w/ it)
On the music thing, I did have my entire collection of music downloaded from YouTube and on an SD card. It worked great at home for that purpose. However, in the car, which is where I most often listen to music, I hit the limits. Microsoft runs videos using the Movie app, instead of Groove, where it would have been more useful. I can use the steering controls to flip b/w songs, but the display doesn't show me what's playing. The car nav unit has a built in iPod player, but that can't be used by Windows. (When I participated in the Insider Program, I did have a suggestion to them to manage music audio & videos in one app, and home photos & videos in another, rather than mix them in the movie app. That way, I could have a playlist that included music videos.) Ultimately, I got an iPod nano just for the car, so that I can not only include playlists, but also see what's playing.
The uses that you listed are all good, but I wonder how the GPS would work if there was neither a SIM in, and the WiFi didn't work either. Actually, until a week ago, the phone seemed fine, until the WiFi hotspots suddenly stopped being listed. I had that phone on auto-upgrade - just upgrade whenever it's plugged in and ready for one, and the last one seemed to have blown it apart. Now, I could neither use WhatsApp, nor check emails, so that pretty much did it for me.
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Looks like the Canadians, who were only too happy to take in Muslim 'refugees' from the Middle East, were far less enthusiastic about Trump-hating 'Muricans coming over, despite the initial red carpet rollout that they had during the transition.
If Trudeau wins the next election, we'll need a wall on the Northern border as well.
Yeah, at this point, I just wonder which one is more irrelevant - Blackberry or Windows Phone?
So Vancouver is more expensive than Manhattan and San Francisco? That's somewhat hard to believe, even if I believe it.
Wonder what he'd have to say about the wanton halal bloodbath every year by Muslims on Eid ul Adha?
Actually, why doesn't Canada simply adapt the US dollar as their currency? As it is, the currencies are neck & neck in value, many US companies also operate in Canada, the 2 countries share the same ISD code, sending mail to Canada is like sending mail to the US in that one just has to mention the code of the Canadian province in question (unlike sending mail to Australia or UK). For all that matters, the US & Canada could be like the EU (sans the regulations) when it comes to being a single economic entity.
WRONG. People are CHOOSING to leave because of the tax rates. Force is a completely different concept and generally involves violence or the the threat of violence in this context.
If somebody cannot afford something, then following a path that gets him/her out of that expense is being forced: it's not a choice!
Violence is not the only image of force: extortion is. If somebody is living somewhere and paying $1000 as rent, and the rent is suddenly jacked up to $2000, then that person is forced to leave, even if no violence is involved in him arriving at the decision.
This is precisely why cryptocurrency was invented - to skirt the law and avoid moral responsibilities. Its sole purpose is as an enabler of criminal activity.
Just fucking ban this fake monopoly money bullshit already.
If that's the case, why are companies like JP Morgan Chase and RBS using Ethereum as a blockchain in various projects?
How North Korea is getting around the sanctions is less important than the who is helping them do it. Aside from the often mentioned China, it's Iran - who has ready money for any nuclear technology that Pyongyang would be willing to give them - and Pakistan, who was one of the enablers of North Korea's nuclear program.
Depressing as it sounds particularly due to its potential fallout in Seoul, war seems to be almost inevitable in Korea right now. All the conversations about whether they can strike Guam or Seattle or Los Angeles is irrelevant: everybody knows that they can strike Seoul and aside from the Koreans, kill thousands of Americans, and not just troops on the DMZ. Congress needs to rescind the 80s law that bans assassinations of foreign leaders, and then the US needs to stage an internal coup to remove Kim Jong Un & family.
In the 90s, they could have used the highest frequency DEC Alphas of the day to do the heating. Has the Itanium been EOLed, or is it still around? If it is, and if they can get a discount from Intel, they could use that for the heat generation
They are invaluable in Twitter, due to the 140 character limit. Of course, one could credibly say that Twitter is stupid
Why not Unicode? Especially when all the major platforms support a variety of languages using Unicode conventions! Everyone's not Slashdot!
I was wondering that as well. What if someone wants to include emojis in the message, which are now pretty mainstream?
Also, since when did Yelp become a 'Google rival'? I can understand that said about Bing or DuckDuckGo or Apple, but Yelp!? Nah!
"Leaks" about Apple products are just hyped up press releases.
Not just that, leaks about those products are another reason to buy up existing iPhones like 7, 6s while they are still around. Before the newer phones are out that get rid of the home button, and lord knows what else. Not to mention a $400 hike in the prices of the phones.
When Firefox introduced the concept of staging RSS feeds on the Bookmarks browser, that became a must have for me in terms of news. As a result, any websites I follow for news, I do on FireFox. Previously, I did that on Internet Explorer as well, but Edge very helpfully got rid of that.
I do use Chrome/Chromium but to exclusively follow Google specific sites, like YouTube, or for things like certain financial transactions where the apps are inadequate.
The issue is not that he's right about something, but that he criticizes everything, w/o ever having a viable alternative. It's like people who rant that 'politics suck' but refuse to support people they most agree w/ b'cos 'they have no chance of winning'. He doesn't have to start a company or anything himself: he can put together a concept, get together w/ any startup and agree w/ them on a marketing plan that helps that company produce something that satisfies all his requirements while at the same time having a business model that keeps them afloat.
But his problem is that he's an all or nothing guy - 'my way or the highway'. TiVo uses a Linux based box to do DVR and pause live TV: his solution is to come up w/ GPL3 and an 'anti-TiVoization' clause that makes it potentially impossible for any company like TiVo to make money while still being in compliance w/ both his license and content producers' copyrights. All the projects that FSF/GNU have come out w/ have been half baked, and largely unfit for human consumption, unless the consumer happens to have grown up on lisp and emacs. Hey, let him or someone who likes him produce a tablet that has Replicant and an entire slew of AGPL services, and I'll happily eat my words, w/ a generous side-dish of crow!
If a theater critic can find nothing but flaws in every play, then yeah, it's worth a shot. Or else, just stop watching them, and find another line of work. It's one thing for a critic to like some things and dislike others, but that's not what Stallman does. As an example, look at his criticism of all Linux distros that have any popular following: the only ones he endorses are fringe ones like gNewSense, Trisquel and so on.
Stallman would have us all live like the Amish, while he himself plays in a time warp in the 70s, where everybody worked on teletype terminals on really arcane software. Computing has advanced eons since then, but he's still stuck there. People are not going to abandon things like FaceBook & Twitter - flawed as they are in terms of freedom of expression - when those things have not only helped people keep in touch w/ each other w/o bringing down phone lines, but also, have helped people in critical situations like in Harvey & Irma.
THIS!!! Absolutely THIS!!! I'd have a lot more respect for him had he and his FSF actually built a total GNU based system, complete w/ (say) Replicant, gnu, gnustep or gnome, gnu Network, gnu Social, and all the other good stuff listed in the GNU page. Create a package, then create a tablet/phone/netbook that can work these, price it something that would cover both the costs as well as the FSF union, and then market it. If it's a phone, it can use SIMs from anybody, except the legacy CDMA guys, it can use WiFi. Heck, he can even build around it some AGPL 3.0 services that can be sold packaged w/ that to offer IP calls, both audio and video. In fact, build a whole ecosystem around it, and sell it!!!
Instead, he comes up w/ stupid slogans and names for products he doesn't like, like iBad. Reason: for all his denials, he just hates capitalism and the free market (just check out Stallman.org for his latest cause de jour, which today happens to be the 9/11 assassination of President Allende of Chile & his replacement by Pinochet. Looking forward to his denunciation of the death sentence of Socrates next week.) He's incapable of either organizing nor backing a company that could transform his supposed dreams into reality (as Red Hat's former CEO Bob Young once said, Stallman knows how to treat his friends as his enemies).
And it's not like Corporate America would shun the likes of him either. If anything, Corporate America has shifted far left today - its backing of DACA, Paris Accord, support to Antifa, et al. Although I'm sure he'll still find reasons to find fault w/ them, just like he did w/ common Linux distros
The phone is a Lumia 550 - one of the 3 models that came preloaded w/ Windows 10 Mobile. It's W10M that's giving me these issues, not WP8.1. Namely, no more WiFi. Most WP8.1 phones are not upgradable to W10M and should be fine
(g) is the reason I originally bought this phone. But if I'm travelling, particularly outside the US, I'd rather use something like WhatsApp's audio calling or video calling to avoid international roaming charges, but now, that's impossible w/ WiFi gone. I've reset my phone, and staged it to be ready to be handed to anyone who just needs a dumb phone w/ a good texting app and a good driving mode. Which would be your (i)
(k) - again WiFi would need to work, unless you have real unlimited mobile data. I had Speedtest as one of the apps
No, I haven't. Windows' Phone companion is completely redundant if I connect my Lumia to the laptop via USB, and the integration seems to have come apart. Like if I open up the 'Messaging' app on the desktop, it doesn't show or download my text messages from the phone, like it used to. That one used to be handy, in case I wanted to type SMS messages on my laptop while chatting w/ people. It's almost like the converse of what MS did to Nokia w/ Elop, Samsung seems to be doing to Microsoft }:-) Getting them to internally sabotage their existing Windows phone platform to make it completely unusable by current users, so that they are forced to look at Galaxies (which the MS store now sells) or iPhones.
I've not tried VLC: does it support playlists? Even if it does, I doubt an iPod player, like my car's, will be able to read it while I'm driving. The 2017 model of my car has a nav unit that supports both CarPlay and Android Auto, but the current 2014 model that I have just supports an iPod player.
Regardless, it'll be their loss }:-)
That model - my first smartphone - came w/ Windows Phone 8.1 and is not upgradable, so it comes w/ not just Bing Maps, but HERE maps and HERE directions as well. It certainly was great for that purpose!
Any old iPhone would still functionally be an iPod, so if you had moved on and still have it around, you can use it in your car, particularly if it has an iPod player in the navigation unit. That way, one can navigate b/w songs while they drive.
I did, until WiFi stopped working
All the things you mentioned were fine, until the WiFi stopped working. I don't want to burn cellular data on it when I have WiFi at home already that this phone will no longer let me use. Microsoft can claim what it likes, but when it's disabled an essential part of a platform they are abandoning, they seem to be clearly telling current users happy w/ their phones to stop using it
Now that you mention it, I had forgotten about the Insider Program before I erased it. I have the 550 - the entry level W10M phone. I did participate in the insider program for Windows 10 before it debuted, but haven't touched it since
Of the 4 things you mention, I disagree about the camera - since I have an iPhone 7 as well. I don't know about its GPS, since I do have a navigation unit in my car. On the PDA thing, I just wish it had Franklin Covey in it, maybe integrated into Outlook (which comes w/ it)
On the music thing, I did have my entire collection of music downloaded from YouTube and on an SD card. It worked great at home for that purpose. However, in the car, which is where I most often listen to music, I hit the limits. Microsoft runs videos using the Movie app, instead of Groove, where it would have been more useful. I can use the steering controls to flip b/w songs, but the display doesn't show me what's playing. The car nav unit has a built in iPod player, but that can't be used by Windows. (When I participated in the Insider Program, I did have a suggestion to them to manage music audio & videos in one app, and home photos & videos in another, rather than mix them in the movie app. That way, I could have a playlist that included music videos.) Ultimately, I got an iPod nano just for the car, so that I can not only include playlists, but also see what's playing.
The uses that you listed are all good, but I wonder how the GPS would work if there was neither a SIM in, and the WiFi didn't work either. Actually, until a week ago, the phone seemed fine, until the WiFi hotspots suddenly stopped being listed. I had that phone on auto-upgrade - just upgrade whenever it's plugged in and ready for one, and the last one seemed to have blown it apart. Now, I could neither use WhatsApp, nor check emails, so that pretty much did it for me.