I'm still confused... So in the UK what's a Kodi box and what is illegal about selling/having them?
Don't tell me it's some issue where folks are bypassing some tax/fee/license issue like rouge TV sets used to be in Britain where the government had roving trucks looking for the RF coming from old tube sets from residences who didn't pay the required fee for the right to watch TV...
Sometimes the ANI isn't what you send for the Caller ID data. It's like the difference between E-mail "from" and "Reply TO" headers.
There ARE valid reasons to do this slight of hand, so the phone company usually allows it from PBX operators.... At least the ones who don't abuse the privilege...
I'm sure that part of this SS7 ISUP signaling protocol is mirrored in SIP, but I left the Telco world right when SIP was getting started so I'm not well versed in the various protocols used to handle signaling in the SIP world.
Are they selling pirated SOFTWARE or hardware here?
And, what on earth does Kodi have to do with that? It is free (as in free to use) software that's even open source so unless Kodi is coming after them, what's the deal?
That annoyed me, implying that the fastest wifi speed meant the fastest Internet speed. I hate deceptive advertising crap like that.
That pretty much means you hate every ISP, cell phone carrier, car maker, drug maker and computer hardware maker in the world.. (Oh, and EVERY politician known to man, past and future.)
Man, you hate most of the world, but I can't disagree with you.
Typical... Scammers just provide spoofed data for the caller ID. Apart from having the right kind of trunk connection with ma bell (pretty much anything except a POTS line) you can set up the caller to receive just about ANY number. I had our PBX operator show me how once. He knew the White House switch board number so he used that to set up the PBX and called my cell phone. Voilà, I got a call from the White House! Great to amaze your friends or hide your true identity from the hapless person you want to abuse who depends on the caller ID.
Of course, none of this slight of hand actually keeps the Phone Company from knowing who to charge or from telling law enforcement who you are if presented the proper warrant....
Don't answer calls from unknown numbers. Problem solved.
My provider, Ooma, does a really good job of keeping an up to date listing of Telemarketing numbers, plus they allow you to deny any calls that don't provide a valid ANI. All I do is turn on their filters and I rarely get any unwanted calls. They are also cheap (after you buy the device that is).
The whole point is, it does not buy you anything. You may as well pray for your data — "just in case".
Late breaking news.... One of my array's drives actually failed yesterday during a routine Antivirus scan... Guess what? My array rebuilt automatically restoring redundancy using the hot standby, all while I was at work and couldn't do a thing about it. No data loss and full redundancy restored w/o any operator interaction. Seems it actually DID buy me something in this case..
Now to start my evil plan of slowly replacing the 1 Gig drives in my array with bigger ones and increasing the available space... One "hot spare" drive at a time.
You assume all those drives are the same, purchased at the same time and pace and will fail at the same time?
Not at all — that's a recipe for a correlated failure. My calculations expect the drives to be similar in characteristics — with the real MTTF of 100000 hours (which is about 1/10th of what the manufacturers claim) — but with failures randomly spread across that period. Drives from the same batch doing the same work in the same enclosure will, likely, start dying together.
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I have a scrap heap of drives with few similarities other than size. I think 2 where actually purchased for this application at different times, the rest where sourced from who knows where. So your assumptions are incorrect. Plus, not all my drives spin, the "Hot spare" actually only spins when it gets tested every few days. So your "it is not worth it" opinion is not shared by this operator mainly because I am often away from home for days at a time and wouldn't be able to get hands on the hardware. However, at this point, I've not had a drive failure on the RAID-5 array in the past 4 years and I've only had to rebuild the array once when I manually failed a drive that had started to report bad sectors.
Is the hot spare worth it? Perhaps not to you, but for me, the little peace of mind it buys (for having a way to get back to fully redundant) is worth both the aggravation it may produce and the power it consumes. But I hear you, the offline backup is more important...
You assume all those drives are the same, purchased at the same time and pace and will fail at the same time? They are not...In my case, the drives are ones I have scavenged from junk heaps and apart from being the same capacity (or nearly so) they are generally not the same. So failure is likely (and in my case, expected).
BTW, because I don't use the file server at home continually, I allow the drives to spin down when idle, so they are not just grinding away 24/7. Sure, I sacrifice a bit of delay when I first access it, but once all the drive are spinning, you don't know the difference. My goal is to NOT LOSE DATA first and foremost, which is why I whish to restore data redundancy ASAP and why I keep the hot spare (well that and have the drive just sitting there) and why I do all the backup madness.... My secondary goal is CHEAP... Which is why the system is built from scrap, why I have software RAID and why I went with RAID 5 (I found enough similar of different makes and RAID 5 got me the most space at the time)....
Also, I built this system from scrap parts nearly a decade ago and it's morphed over the years as new scrap parts became available. I don't think it is an optimal solution today for performance or reliability. However, because CHEAP is the #2 goal, it will be used until it drops or the storage required becomes too big for the drives I can find in the scrap pile...
But my original point is... I don't care what kind of drive you have you must do two things... 1. BACKUPS and 2. Monitor your hardware. All to often folks figure things are install and forget, but for critical data, you got to pay attention.
If you care about your data you either RAID (and monitor) or keep good backups that you routinely test. (preferably both)
My Personal file server is software RAID-5 with a hot spare and a replacement drive on the shelf. PLUS I keep a nightly mirrored backup online and rotate the spindles offsite to the In-laws basement every time we visit. (I know I'm cheap, but 4 Gig is kind of expensive to back up to the cloud and I have security to consider.) I lost a small portion of the photos once and thought my wife was going to kill me, NEVER again unless the zombie apocalypse happens.
WD drives do seem to be on the lower end of reliability, but I really don't care that much myself. I buy what's cheap and I'll toss it when it breaks...
The next presidential decrete sets the number of H1-B visas to be given out the next 4 years to 0, while congress gets to pass a law to end the H1-B visas completely.
The more batshit insane he gets, the closer to impeachment he becomes.
Just so you fully appreciate the insanity you suggest.... You do understand that Impeachment *REQUIRES* some specific crime to be committed. He's got to do something illegal, or you have to trump up some quasi crime to use... THEN.... You have to draw up changes and get the House majority to vote to impeach. Once you have articles of impeachment, he is "tried" in the Senate which MUST vote 2/3rds to convict.
Now if you are counting on Trump making some unforced error so he loses the majority of Republican support.... You severely underestimate him. If Trump is anything, he KNOWS how to keep the base that elected him happy and Republicans realize that. You may not like him, he may even make you and those like you so angry you cannot help yourselves, but don't over estimate your case. We look at the idiots who are rioting and bad mouthing Trump as spoiled brats.... So the more you try by ramping up the rhetoric and riots, the more you prove our opinion of you is right, batS#!+ crazy liberals...
Impeachment? Try it you idiots and the sooner the better... Bury yourselves deeper in that hole... Come on 2018 is fast approaching.
First, being an originalist does NOT preclude making amendments to the constitution.... Your argument on that is a clever fallacy, but so is the rest ofyour argument..
You admit that although you see qualities in Trump that *remind* you of Hitler, he's not actually anywhere near the historical figure in actions... Yet... You just figure that he might try so you are going to oppose ALL he attempts? You seem to agree he's not done anything like this yet...
Let me remind you of what I see as the real essence of evil that Hitler was engaged in and the progression of his rise to power so you can ask yourself, where are we along this continuum?
Hitler was elected and gained power though clever use of intimidation, usurpation of law and violence. He gained power largely though the usurpation of the German constitution using quasi legal means to suppress many basic human rights. He used various "emergencies" to declare marshal law, imprison his political foes and then change the laws of the land while his opponents could not stop him (either because they where dead, in jail or missing). He then took all authority for himself, writing laws by decree and effectively becoming the sole ruler of the country with the death of Hindenburg. After that, it was all over but the war as Hitler had total control of the country as a dictator.
Where are we? Our constitution remains in full force, with the bill of rights firmly in place. Congress remains fully in charge of writing laws and our courts still have power to adjudicate the laws. The president is still unable to make laws on his own and if he tried (such as when Obama did) the courts would not let him. What power does Trump have to change this arrangement? None... Our constitution is still in force and will remain as it is, Trump is powerless to change that, just like all past presidents. Trump can not amend the constitution himself, that takes 2/3rds of the states, and beyond suggesting amendments he'd like cannot officially even do that without congress or the states.
Or do you believe that Trump is somehow unaware of the limited power he has or that he is somehow grasping for more than he's allowed? In which case, I ask you to kindly supply examples of this usurpation of power you are so afraid of.
It's easy to accuse somebody of being "like" someone or something you don't care for, especially if you don't personally or politically like what they are doing. However, your argument here is a classic association fallacy and thus invalid.
However, PLEASE, please, contact me when Trump actually does something to usurp his constitutional authority so I can join you in opposition to such an action. Be prepared with hard evidence of this because I'm not inclined to believe you given your past logical fallacies. So far, he's done nothing that I am aware of that usurps his constitutional limits as the original framers put forth and hasn't made any moves to change the constitution (much less suggested it needs any). (Which is why I point to his nomination to the Supreme court as proof you are wrong).
Now that's just sad. Comparing Trump to Hitler? Seriously?
He may not be the model of decorum in his personal behavior and may have a brash personality that rubs folks who oppose him the wrong way, but that doesn't mean his policies are anywhere close to Hitler's or that the country is now in danger of falling into anything that resembles pre-WWII Germany. To even say such garbage cheapens history. This is like comparing the concentration camps where millions of Jews died to a summer camp for kids. It's offensive and shows both a lack of understand of history and current events and betrays the partisanship that drives all this pointless rhetoric used to divide the right from the left in this country.
The real problem though, is the truth is hard to hide and is becoming apparent. Trump nominates an "originalist" to the Supreme court, a guy who says that he must interpret the laws as they where INTENDED by the original authors and decide the issues based on that, not his personal feelings. Had Trump wanted to take over, he would need a judge who was free to decide cases based on political positions, not the law, because the law in this country pretty much precludes dictators from taking power.
Then there is the Executive Order issue.... Name ONE of Trump's orders that has attempted to expand the power of the presidency or make a new law? (Hint: there isn't one as of this writing). You won't find one. I encourage you to go read these orders and quote them here to prove me wrong. You can find them all on the White House's web site if you cannot find them elsewhere... (You won't find them on any news site I've found, including CNN, FOX or MSNBC, but you will find a LOT of commentary about them..) I think you will be surprised to learn that a lot of stuff you THINK is there, isn't. Go find the Muslim ban, I dare you to try because I know you will fail.
So, you have a choice... Back up your claims here with some kind of actual evidence from original sources, or take your partisanship and ugly talk and go away. Trump isn't "like" Hitler and claiming so makes it obvious you don't know history nor current events well enough to be listened too. Stop falling for all this garbage you are hearing, go to the original sources and think critically. Remember the press doesn't tell you things that don't generate advertising dollars, so the mundane and uninteresting stuff doesn't get air time, but violent protests and hyperbolae sure will. You got to dig a bit for the truth, but it's out there.
Death and destruction follow such activity just as sure as night follows dusk.
I'm pretty sure in the case of Mussolini, the death and destruction preceded his ignoble demise.
True, but it surely didn't stop with his departure but ground on for a few more years as the country sorted itself out with the Allies help... However, I'd like to point out that we are in no way in a situation that even remotely resembles the circumstances leading to Mussolini's demise, at least not in this country...
Assisted by a foreign led invasion force. That guy wasn't going willingly and if you read history, fell into the wrong hands though a series of fortunate happenstances. Had he been a little bit more lucky, he would have escaped into exile with his family.
Not to mention... Shame what happened to his family.. Now that was totally uncalled for.
So, am I reading this right? You are advocating for similar activity today? If so, you are an idiot.. Death and destruction follow such activity just as sure as night follows dusk. It is the poor and innocent that pay the most.
So are they are more secure than the next guy? Not really, they have bugs too (not to mention they designed a lot of the really scary protocols running around the net that sacrifice security all the time).
I guess you can give them kudos for finding an issue then fixing it too... Just don't try to find the updated firmware for that old router you have w/o a service contract..
Obama sure had the "no law" part down... Got slapped in the courts for his immigration EO's, and not just some injunction, he lost the case outright. He was found to have altered immigration law with his EO which a president simply can not do.
At least Trump's EO's have the backing of law, regardless of that one injunction by the misguided judge in NY...
Haven't actually taken the time to READ the order have you? Come on, it's not that long. Go find it on the White House's website...
THEY are not coming for anybody, immigrants, Muslims, or you.. All the order does is "pause" entries from specific countries until a vetting system can be put in place that has some hope of figuring out who these people are we are letting in. It does not mention Muslims (or any religion) and will NOT cause the deportation of anybody already legally here (or illegally for that matter). Plus it is time limited to 90-120 days, at which time everything returns to what it is now unless it's renewed.
That's what he wants. It's what he needs to feel important and the more you give into it, the more he's going to keep doing these stupid, stupid things.
Here is a guess, you haven't actually read the order have you?
The order specifically says that the various departments involved may grant exceptions to the general rule as they see fit. Meaning Trump said "Don't call me, do what you have to do." Which is pretty much the opposite of the micromanager you describe Trump to be. He will likely never know or care that one of his underlings has granted or refused Microsoft their wish.
So your little fit here about Trump really is more about your perceptions of Trump and your feelings about this order than reality. He may be brash and abrasive, but that doesn't mean he is all the bad things you project onto him...
Is that in a class B airspace there at Wings Over Houston? Somehow I don't think an airshow *could* be held in a class B airspace w/o some serious disruption of airline transport services....
This waver is just the first one issued for a Class B airspace.... Not the first time a drone has flown at an airport..
Personally.... I think that most laws should require a re-authorization every few decades, with few possible exceptions. That way, when things like the "blue laws" go out of style/vogue they will eventually go away unless renewed.
99% of statistics are made up to prove a point. Source on that? There are things which lend themselves to recycling quite well, either because it's easy (such as in paper), the results are valuable (such as lead acid batteries), or the removal of some waste from the environment is desired (Lead batteries again)
My dad says.... "There are lines... Damn lines.... Then Statistics.. " He's right..
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Please don't pretend that you're that obtuse, Donald Trump has a copyright on that behavior.
Trump has the Corner of the market maybe, but not a copyright... The question remains valid. What's illegal about what they are doing?
I'm still confused... So in the UK what's a Kodi box and what is illegal about selling/having them?
Don't tell me it's some issue where folks are bypassing some tax/fee/license issue like rouge TV sets used to be in Britain where the government had roving trucks looking for the RF coming from old tube sets from residences who didn't pay the required fee for the right to watch TV...
Sometimes the ANI isn't what you send for the Caller ID data. It's like the difference between E-mail "from" and "Reply TO" headers.
There ARE valid reasons to do this slight of hand, so the phone company usually allows it from PBX operators.... At least the ones who don't abuse the privilege...
I'm sure that part of this SS7 ISUP signaling protocol is mirrored in SIP, but I left the Telco world right when SIP was getting started so I'm not well versed in the various protocols used to handle signaling in the SIP world.
Or is this article really confusing?
Are they selling pirated SOFTWARE or hardware here?
And, what on earth does Kodi have to do with that? It is free (as in free to use) software that's even open source so unless Kodi is coming after them, what's the deal?
That annoyed me, implying that the fastest wifi speed meant the fastest Internet speed. I hate deceptive advertising crap like that.
That pretty much means you hate every ISP, cell phone carrier, car maker, drug maker and computer hardware maker in the world.. (Oh, and EVERY politician known to man, past and future.)
Man, you hate most of the world, but I can't disagree with you.
Typical... Scammers just provide spoofed data for the caller ID. Apart from having the right kind of trunk connection with ma bell (pretty much anything except a POTS line) you can set up the caller to receive just about ANY number. I had our PBX operator show me how once. He knew the White House switch board number so he used that to set up the PBX and called my cell phone. Voilà, I got a call from the White House! Great to amaze your friends or hide your true identity from the hapless person you want to abuse who depends on the caller ID.
Of course, none of this slight of hand actually keeps the Phone Company from knowing who to charge or from telling law enforcement who you are if presented the proper warrant....
Don't answer calls from unknown numbers. Problem solved.
My provider, Ooma, does a really good job of keeping an up to date listing of Telemarketing numbers, plus they allow you to deny any calls that don't provide a valid ANI. All I do is turn on their filters and I rarely get any unwanted calls. They are also cheap (after you buy the device that is).
The whole point is, it does not buy you anything. You may as well pray for your data — "just in case".
Late breaking news.... One of my array's drives actually failed yesterday during a routine Antivirus scan... Guess what? My array rebuilt automatically restoring redundancy using the hot standby, all while I was at work and couldn't do a thing about it. No data loss and full redundancy restored w/o any operator interaction. Seems it actually DID buy me something in this case..
Now to start my evil plan of slowly replacing the 1 Gig drives in my array with bigger ones and increasing the available space... One "hot spare" drive at a time.
They all fail.. It's just a matter of time...
When you run junk like I have, plan for failure or don't expect to keep your data..
Not at all — that's a recipe for a correlated failure. My calculations expect the drives to be similar in characteristics — with the real MTTF of 100000 hours (which is about 1/10th of what the manufacturers claim) — but with failures randomly spread across that period. Drives from the same batch doing the same work in the same enclosure will, likely, start dying together.
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I have a scrap heap of drives with few similarities other than size. I think 2 where actually purchased for this application at different times, the rest where sourced from who knows where. So your assumptions are incorrect. Plus, not all my drives spin, the "Hot spare" actually only spins when it gets tested every few days. So your "it is not worth it" opinion is not shared by this operator mainly because I am often away from home for days at a time and wouldn't be able to get hands on the hardware. However, at this point, I've not had a drive failure on the RAID-5 array in the past 4 years and I've only had to rebuild the array once when I manually failed a drive that had started to report bad sectors.
Is the hot spare worth it? Perhaps not to you, but for me, the little peace of mind it buys (for having a way to get back to fully redundant) is worth both the aggravation it may produce and the power it consumes. But I hear you, the offline backup is more important...
You assume all those drives are the same, purchased at the same time and pace and will fail at the same time? They are not...In my case, the drives are ones I have scavenged from junk heaps and apart from being the same capacity (or nearly so) they are generally not the same. So failure is likely (and in my case, expected).
BTW, because I don't use the file server at home continually, I allow the drives to spin down when idle, so they are not just grinding away 24/7. Sure, I sacrifice a bit of delay when I first access it, but once all the drive are spinning, you don't know the difference. My goal is to NOT LOSE DATA first and foremost, which is why I whish to restore data redundancy ASAP and why I keep the hot spare (well that and have the drive just sitting there) and why I do all the backup madness.... My secondary goal is CHEAP... Which is why the system is built from scrap, why I have software RAID and why I went with RAID 5 (I found enough similar of different makes and RAID 5 got me the most space at the time)....
Also, I built this system from scrap parts nearly a decade ago and it's morphed over the years as new scrap parts became available. I don't think it is an optimal solution today for performance or reliability. However, because CHEAP is the #2 goal, it will be used until it drops or the storage required becomes too big for the drives I can find in the scrap pile...
But my original point is... I don't care what kind of drive you have you must do two things... 1. BACKUPS and 2. Monitor your hardware. All to often folks figure things are install and forget, but for critical data, you got to pay attention.
I don't care what vendor you use...
If you care about your data you either RAID (and monitor) or keep good backups that you routinely test. (preferably both)
My Personal file server is software RAID-5 with a hot spare and a replacement drive on the shelf. PLUS I keep a nightly mirrored backup online and rotate the spindles offsite to the In-laws basement every time we visit. (I know I'm cheap, but 4 Gig is kind of expensive to back up to the cloud and I have security to consider.) I lost a small portion of the photos once and thought my wife was going to kill me, NEVER again unless the zombie apocalypse happens.
WD drives do seem to be on the lower end of reliability, but I really don't care that much myself. I buy what's cheap and I'll toss it when it breaks...
The next presidential decrete sets the number of H1-B visas to be given out the next 4 years to 0, while congress gets to pass a law to end the H1-B visas completely.
The more batshit insane he gets, the closer to impeachment he becomes.
Just so you fully appreciate the insanity you suggest.... You do understand that Impeachment *REQUIRES* some specific crime to be committed. He's got to do something illegal, or you have to trump up some quasi crime to use... THEN.... You have to draw up changes and get the House majority to vote to impeach. Once you have articles of impeachment, he is "tried" in the Senate which MUST vote 2/3rds to convict.
Now if you are counting on Trump making some unforced error so he loses the majority of Republican support.... You severely underestimate him. If Trump is anything, he KNOWS how to keep the base that elected him happy and Republicans realize that. You may not like him, he may even make you and those like you so angry you cannot help yourselves, but don't over estimate your case. We look at the idiots who are rioting and bad mouthing Trump as spoiled brats.... So the more you try by ramping up the rhetoric and riots, the more you prove our opinion of you is right, batS#!+ crazy liberals...
Impeachment? Try it you idiots and the sooner the better... Bury yourselves deeper in that hole... Come on 2018 is fast approaching.
First, being an originalist does NOT preclude making amendments to the constitution.... Your argument on that is a clever fallacy, but so is the rest ofyour argument..
You admit that although you see qualities in Trump that *remind* you of Hitler, he's not actually anywhere near the historical figure in actions... Yet... You just figure that he might try so you are going to oppose ALL he attempts? You seem to agree he's not done anything like this yet...
Let me remind you of what I see as the real essence of evil that Hitler was engaged in and the progression of his rise to power so you can ask yourself, where are we along this continuum?
Hitler was elected and gained power though clever use of intimidation, usurpation of law and violence. He gained power largely though the usurpation of the German constitution using quasi legal means to suppress many basic human rights. He used various "emergencies" to declare marshal law, imprison his political foes and then change the laws of the land while his opponents could not stop him (either because they where dead, in jail or missing). He then took all authority for himself, writing laws by decree and effectively becoming the sole ruler of the country with the death of Hindenburg. After that, it was all over but the war as Hitler had total control of the country as a dictator.
Where are we? Our constitution remains in full force, with the bill of rights firmly in place. Congress remains fully in charge of writing laws and our courts still have power to adjudicate the laws. The president is still unable to make laws on his own and if he tried (such as when Obama did) the courts would not let him. What power does Trump have to change this arrangement? None... Our constitution is still in force and will remain as it is, Trump is powerless to change that, just like all past presidents. Trump can not amend the constitution himself, that takes 2/3rds of the states, and beyond suggesting amendments he'd like cannot officially even do that without congress or the states.
Or do you believe that Trump is somehow unaware of the limited power he has or that he is somehow grasping for more than he's allowed? In which case, I ask you to kindly supply examples of this usurpation of power you are so afraid of.
It's easy to accuse somebody of being "like" someone or something you don't care for, especially if you don't personally or politically like what they are doing. However, your argument here is a classic association fallacy and thus invalid.
However, PLEASE, please, contact me when Trump actually does something to usurp his constitutional authority so I can join you in opposition to such an action. Be prepared with hard evidence of this because I'm not inclined to believe you given your past logical fallacies. So far, he's done nothing that I am aware of that usurps his constitutional limits as the original framers put forth and hasn't made any moves to change the constitution (much less suggested it needs any). (Which is why I point to his nomination to the Supreme court as proof you are wrong).
Now that's just sad. Comparing Trump to Hitler? Seriously?
He may not be the model of decorum in his personal behavior and may have a brash personality that rubs folks who oppose him the wrong way, but that doesn't mean his policies are anywhere close to Hitler's or that the country is now in danger of falling into anything that resembles pre-WWII Germany. To even say such garbage cheapens history. This is like comparing the concentration camps where millions of Jews died to a summer camp for kids. It's offensive and shows both a lack of understand of history and current events and betrays the partisanship that drives all this pointless rhetoric used to divide the right from the left in this country.
The real problem though, is the truth is hard to hide and is becoming apparent. Trump nominates an "originalist" to the Supreme court, a guy who says that he must interpret the laws as they where INTENDED by the original authors and decide the issues based on that, not his personal feelings. Had Trump wanted to take over, he would need a judge who was free to decide cases based on political positions, not the law, because the law in this country pretty much precludes dictators from taking power.
Then there is the Executive Order issue.... Name ONE of Trump's orders that has attempted to expand the power of the presidency or make a new law? (Hint: there isn't one as of this writing). You won't find one. I encourage you to go read these orders and quote them here to prove me wrong. You can find them all on the White House's web site if you cannot find them elsewhere... (You won't find them on any news site I've found, including CNN, FOX or MSNBC, but you will find a LOT of commentary about them..) I think you will be surprised to learn that a lot of stuff you THINK is there, isn't. Go find the Muslim ban, I dare you to try because I know you will fail.
So, you have a choice... Back up your claims here with some kind of actual evidence from original sources, or take your partisanship and ugly talk and go away. Trump isn't "like" Hitler and claiming so makes it obvious you don't know history nor current events well enough to be listened too. Stop falling for all this garbage you are hearing, go to the original sources and think critically. Remember the press doesn't tell you things that don't generate advertising dollars, so the mundane and uninteresting stuff doesn't get air time, but violent protests and hyperbolae sure will. You got to dig a bit for the truth, but it's out there.
I'm pretty sure in the case of Mussolini, the death and destruction preceded his ignoble demise.
True, but it surely didn't stop with his departure but ground on for a few more years as the country sorted itself out with the Allies help... However, I'd like to point out that we are in no way in a situation that even remotely resembles the circumstances leading to Mussolini's demise, at least not in this country...
Assisted by a foreign led invasion force. That guy wasn't going willingly and if you read history, fell into the wrong hands though a series of fortunate happenstances. Had he been a little bit more lucky, he would have escaped into exile with his family.
Not to mention... Shame what happened to his family.. Now that was totally uncalled for.
So, am I reading this right? You are advocating for similar activity today? If so, you are an idiot.. Death and destruction follow such activity just as sure as night follows dusk. It is the poor and innocent that pay the most.
So are they are more secure than the next guy? Not really, they have bugs too (not to mention they designed a lot of the really scary protocols running around the net that sacrifice security all the time).
I guess you can give them kudos for finding an issue then fixing it too... Just don't try to find the updated firmware for that old router you have w/o a service contract..
Obama sure had the "no law" part down... Got slapped in the courts for his immigration EO's, and not just some injunction, he lost the case outright. He was found to have altered immigration law with his EO which a president simply can not do.
At least Trump's EO's have the backing of law, regardless of that one injunction by the misguided judge in NY...
Haven't actually taken the time to READ the order have you? Come on, it's not that long. Go find it on the White House's website...
THEY are not coming for anybody, immigrants, Muslims, or you.. All the order does is "pause" entries from specific countries until a vetting system can be put in place that has some hope of figuring out who these people are we are letting in. It does not mention Muslims (or any religion) and will NOT cause the deportation of anybody already legally here (or illegally for that matter). Plus it is time limited to 90-120 days, at which time everything returns to what it is now unless it's renewed.
What's your beef with this?
That's what he wants. It's what he needs to feel important and the more you give into it, the more he's going to keep doing these stupid, stupid things.
Here is a guess, you haven't actually read the order have you?
The order specifically says that the various departments involved may grant exceptions to the general rule as they see fit. Meaning Trump said "Don't call me, do what you have to do." Which is pretty much the opposite of the micromanager you describe Trump to be. He will likely never know or care that one of his underlings has granted or refused Microsoft their wish.
So your little fit here about Trump really is more about your perceptions of Trump and your feelings about this order than reality. He may be brash and abrasive, but that doesn't mean he is all the bad things you project onto him...
Is that in a class B airspace there at Wings Over Houston? Somehow I don't think an airshow *could* be held in a class B airspace w/o some serious disruption of airline transport services....
This waver is just the first one issued for a Class B airspace.... Not the first time a drone has flown at an airport..
Personally.... I think that most laws should require a re-authorization every few decades, with few possible exceptions. That way, when things like the "blue laws" go out of style/vogue they will eventually go away unless renewed.
Same with HOA's but that's another issue...
99% of statistics are made up to prove a point. Source on that? There are things which lend themselves to recycling quite well, either because it's easy (such as in paper), the results are valuable (such as lead acid batteries), or the removal of some waste from the environment is desired (Lead batteries again)
My dad says.... "There are lines... Damn lines .... Then Statistics.. " He's right..
Nobody ever said recycling was environmentally friendly... It can be, or in this case, not be.