"this is what happens when you put people in charge of gov't that don't believe gov't can do anything."
Nah, this is what happens when you put people in charge of gov't that don't WANT the gov't to do anything to protect consumers, only increase the wealth of the already wealthy....
Good thing I don't play Sims or Battlefield or CoD or similar games. I don't first day buy games either. YouTube and Twitch play sessions are a great way to see a game and judge if it's going to be worth the price....
"Magazine and newspaper subscriptions are universally down." Why? Combination of speed of the internet and the incessant pages of ad after ad after ad....
"Terrestrial radio consumption is down." Why. Same music on every station, boring "safe" radio "personalities" and ads ads ads....
"People are cutting the cable tv cord more and more" Anyone remember when cable advertised itself as uncensored and "no commercials"? That sure didn't last. Not to mention the channel bundling. "Here's 200 channels no one watches, but to get the two or three channels you actually want, you have to pay for the tier that includes all the crap too!"
If you still have to be alert and ready to take over at fraction of second's notice, that sounds a hell of a lot more stressful than regular driving....
Not to mention that pilots don't share the same road with other vehicles less than 6-10 feet (2-3 meters) away from them almost constantly amd with regular complete stops needed regularly. Not to mention that planes don't really have to worry about other cars, children, animals, etc suddenly crossing the road in front of them....
Remember when the OS fit on a floppy and only did the most basic tasks rather than spying on the user and trying to be everything including the kitchen sink?
"Mentioning that Clinton won the popular vote this year is like mentioning that a losing football team had more total yards than the winning team. Sure, it's a meaningful statistic, but maybe they wouldn't have punted that one time if they were going for yards instead of points."
In a country that justifies it's constant interference in other nations with cries of how great America is because of "Democracy", the popular vote is all that matters. One person, one vote. NOT "the other 49.9 % of the voters in your state have their votes effectively nullified"
Besides, the President represents the whole country, not any individual state, it should be purely the popular vote.
If only one person shows up to vote in a big "Electoral College" state ( Ex. FL (29), TX (38), CA (55) ) , that one person's vote countes more than MILLIONS of votes in smaller states, and thatr is totally un-American and against the ideals of "democracy" that blowhards always tout to the rest of the world.
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If making phones "at home" means America, why aren't they paying their taxes here?
Sounds more like this will just generate more "homegrown" terrorists....
"Let's fight fascism in the US and UK with more fascism....what could go wrong?"
So basic human rights like simple privacy should be ended because of possible terrorists?
Fuck you, if you are so afraid of life, please go die now.
"this is what happens when you put people in charge of gov't that don't believe gov't can do anything."
Nah, this is what happens when you put people in charge of gov't that don't WANT the gov't to do anything to protect consumers, only increase the wealth of the already wealthy....
The racists voted for Trump, he's giving them what they want...
Good thing I don't play Sims or Battlefield or CoD or similar games. I don't first day buy games either. YouTube and Twitch play sessions are a great way to see a game and judge if it's going to be worth the price....
"Magazine and newspaper subscriptions are universally down."
Why? Combination of speed of the internet and the incessant pages of ad after ad after ad....
"Terrestrial radio consumption is down."
Why. Same music on every station, boring "safe" radio "personalities" and ads ads ads....
"People are cutting the cable tv cord more and more"
Anyone remember when cable advertised itself as uncensored and "no commercials"? That sure didn't last. Not to mention the channel bundling. "Here's 200 channels no one watches, but to get the two or three channels you actually want, you have to pay for the tier that includes all the crap too!"
If the garbage in his message is the furte of video games, I'm done with video games....
That's a whole separate problem, that's only gonna get worse over the next 4 years....
If you still have to be alert and ready to take over at fraction of second's notice, that sounds a hell of a lot more stressful than regular driving....
Yes, but if you are using a clip, it's not going to click on an empty chamber unless you are out of rounds.... ;)
Not to mention that pilots don't share the same road with other vehicles less than 6-10 feet (2-3 meters) away from them almost constantly amd with regular complete stops needed regularly. Not to mention that planes don't really have to worry about other cars, children, animals, etc suddenly crossing the road in front of them....
Wow, you ARE that fucking stupid
Good point...forgot to go back that far
Remember when the OS fit on a floppy and only did the most basic tasks rather than spying on the user and trying to be everything including the kitchen sink?
Even less reason then for it to be writing GB after GB of data then
And fuck you Coward
Did anyone NOT see this kind of shit coming?
Wonder what this does to people's data plans and consumption of their monthly limits...
So glad I just use local music files and don't stream. Write once, maybe again to add some more music, then just read many,,,
Senators and Representatives are elected by popular vote. The president should be no different
"Mentioning that Clinton won the popular vote this year is like mentioning that a losing football team had more total yards than the winning team. Sure, it's a meaningful statistic, but maybe they wouldn't have punted that one time if they were going for yards instead of points."
In a country that justifies it's constant interference in other nations with cries of how great America is because of "Democracy", the popular vote is all that matters.
One person, one vote. NOT "the other 49.9 % of the voters in your state have their votes effectively nullified"
And I call bullshit.
Get rid of the elector college nonsense and you'll be actually letting people's vote actually count for the president.
The electoral college steals that.
Absolutely yes.
It lessens the value of individual votes.
Besides, the President represents the whole country, not any individual state, it should be purely the popular vote.
If only one person shows up to vote in a big "Electoral College" state ( Ex. FL (29), TX (38), CA (55) ) , that one person's vote countes more than MILLIONS of votes in smaller states, and thatr is totally un-American and against the ideals of "democracy" that blowhards always tout to the rest of the world.
It makes the value of each individual's vote count LESS.
If only one person in Texas goes out to vote for president, that one person's vote counts more than the millions of voters in other, smaller states.
It needs to be abolished.
I do blame the electoral college, it's a stupid waste, but that's beside the point.
Enough people voted for Hitler-the-Next-Generation in the right states to get him the electoral votes he needed.