Now that's just sad. Comparing Trump to Hitler? Seriously?
Unfortunately, for many people this seems entirely appropriate, especially those who fall into one of the many groups of people who feel threatened by Trump and his power base.
"Feel" trumps facts. (Argh, didn't notice the pun until after I'd typed it.) That's 90% of the problem right there.
As much of a jackass as Trump is (I refused to vote for him no matter who he was running against) people who think it's a good idea to riot until they get the results of an election overturned are a far, far greater threat to the nation than anything His Orangeness is at all likely to do.
Unless the left actually starts a shooting revolution. Then all bets are off.
I want to absolutely, completely, utterly expunge from my FaceBook feed any and all references to (1) Trump (2) Sports (3) Celebrity gossip. This crap is an absolute flood, making any friends and family news impossible to find buried in the bottom of the garbage dump. (Yes, I know, but I'll get my news from an actual news source, thank you; anything on Facebook that mentions Trump is just two armed camps shrieking obscenities at each other, with zero actual information content.)
These vermin will go after anyone. I've seen carefully targeted spearphishing attempting to steal from a charity for terminally ill children. Stealing from a library is nothing for these scum.
So what do most smart people do after buying a new phone? They buy a case or bumper to ensure that the screen and/or glass back don't get destroyed the first time the damn thing falls out of your pocket.
Especially Samsung phones, which are made of the slipperiest substance this side of greased Teflon. (Love the phones, but yeah... I don't walk out of the store with one without a Seidio case/belt clip for it. Dang things practically jump out of my hands. Not a problem with a case made out of something that's not the mechanical friction equivalent of a superconductor. They ought to make bearings out of that stuff.)
It amazes me that people continue to believe Trump is impulsive. There's nothing impulsive about anything Trump does; it's all extremely calculated. If I didn't know better I was say the press were in collusion to spread that myth in order to make people underestimate Trump, but as usual Occam's razor applies and the press are just full of idiots.
As a point to consider: How many times has Trump "impulsively" pulled his gun and shot, or even threatened anyone? Never? Not once?
He does have a concealed carry license, and in an interview he said he's almost always carrying.
That data point should be factored into any discussion about how "impulsive" he may or may not be.
(Disclaimer: Charter #NeverTrump member since the first time he made noises about running as a Reform Party candidate; I didn't vote for the SOB.)
You might think so... I thought so, too, a couple decades ago when the broker handling my 401k touted some investment scheme involving land prices in Hawaii never losing value. I lost about ten grand on that one.
From TFA, it seems like these are old titles, many of the people who inherited them have no idea they "own" these properties, and thus haven't been paying property taxes on them since 180something.
I don't much care for The Zuck, but before taking off on the all too predictable partisan political tears, people should inform themselves on which Supreme Court justices ruled which way on the Kelo decision.
This would put many people in danger if they did this. I wont elaborate.
You think Julian Asshat cares? He blew the cover of people who worked with us against Al Queda in Afghanistan, and when questioned about it, said that anyone who worked with the United States deserved to die, so ha ha ha ha ha.
I checked about:support and saw that multiprocess windows was not enabled. Installed the Add-on Compatibility Reporter and saw that WoT (yeah, privacy, blah blah spyware blah blah) and Ubuntu Modifications add-ons were incompatible with multiprocess. Disabled those two and... wow. The speedup and responsiveness improvement is substantial. I also disabled WoT on my Windows 10 laptop, and the speedup there was also improvement there.
Part of it could be "Yeah, running fewer add-ons, of course it'll be faster", but I've got a whole bunch of other add-ons; Tree Style Tab, NoScript, LastPass, etc. I think multi-process is a win.
The spoofing issue makes a blacklist almost as useless for phone spam as for email spam.
What I want instead is a whitelist. Everything goes to voicemail, without ringing my phone, not even once, unless it's on the whitelist.
If someone not on the whitelist wants to talk to me, they can darn well leave a message, or I will never know or care that they called.
People I call automatically go on the whitelist unless I say otherwise
And, just to mess with <redacted> robocallers, my voicemail message is "Hello?" (pause for response, repeat "Hello" a few times if there isn't a response) Then, when they pause, "This is an automated answering service. Do you have any other message for the people at this number?"
(Yeah, this means they'll show up in my voicemail rather than silently vanishing from my universe, but I want to screw up their business model of cheap robo-calling, and only bringing in an expensive agent when someone answers.)
I certainly don't expect a CalExit... if it ever looks like there's the faintest possibility that it might happen, I'll have to make a run for the border before they put up an iron curtain at Donner Pass. My impression is that CalExit is just the usual suspects frothing at the mouth. Nobody serious is seriously proposing it.
While you make a valid point about Federalism, your belief that "the current administration has spent 8 years weaponizing the Federal government to go after his opponents" is - to put it as nicely as possible - based on pure imagination.
Exaggeration. A bit. But this administration sicced the IRS onto a whole bunch of conservative organizations in the lead-up to the 2012 election. Plus a couple of token leftist organizations which were far enough left that they opposed Obama from the other side. If any so-called liberals objected, I never heard about it; they weren't objecting very much.
That's really something that should not be permitted, by either side. Ever.
I note that in all the discussion of how Clinton won the popular vote, in CalExit America, she actually lost by about half a million votes. California's vote was that lopsided.
Trump is... an embarrassment, at best, but the overheated histrionics of the Left wore very very thin a long time ago.
I've been saying for years: Never give powers to your very favorite president in history that you wouldn't want to see in the hands of the president who horrifies you the most. The current administration has spent 8 years weaponizing the Federal government to go after his opponents. For those who applauded that... we'll see how that works out for you in the next 4-8 years.
Maybe we'll get some actual consensus that federalism and limited powers are a good thing again. If so, a Trump presidency might be just the medicine we need, no matter how bad it tastes.
At a previous employer, HR did some actual benefits mailing from a third party I'd never heard of... a domain with a wacky name like "12monkeys.com". (That wasn't the name, I don't think, but it was something like that.) I think the domain's whois was even privacy protected. I sounded the "We are being phished!" alarm with IT. HR was kind of put out, but my boss approved of my actions.
Plus, Samsung's phones (which I love otherwise) are made of the slipperiest substance this side of greased Teflon. I could not keep the dang thing in my hands until I put a case on it. (Seidio case, also sold by Best Buy as their "Platinum" case. Since I had a Palm Pilot, my first criteria for a cell phone is that Seidio makes a case for it.)
I think if they don't have a headphone jack in future phones, though, that I may find myself looking elsewhere.
Question: Did Carson just repeat some wild notion that Ellen G. White cooked up that he heard in Sunday School as a kid and never had any particular reason to question or look into, and all the usual suspects are playing "Gotcha!! Whadda maroon!!"? Or does he continue to maintain that the pyramids were for grain storage?
I suspect the Libertarians and Greens did better is that 1) they were on the ballot, and 2) were not the malign Ooma-Loompa, and 3) were not the evil shrill harpy. (The LP is generally my "A Plague on Both Your Parties" vote, and that's basically why I voted for Johnson this time.)
No, I was not "throwing away my vote". In California, I didn't have any meaningful vote to throw away; Hillary was going to get over 60% of the vote no matter what. Might as well use what little vote I had for someone who, though with lots of his own problems, didn't make me want to call for an exorcist.
Cue the Leslie Fish song "Grandma Went Out With a Bang". (Annoying for the assumption that Grandma's plutonium pacemaker would explode at cremation, but a funny song, still.)
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One of my favorite Pogo quotes: "You can't take life too serious, it ain't nohow permanent."
Now that's just sad. Comparing Trump to Hitler? Seriously?
Unfortunately, for many people this seems entirely appropriate, especially those who fall into one of the many groups of people who feel threatened by Trump and his power base.
"Feel" trumps facts. (Argh, didn't notice the pun until after I'd typed it.) That's 90% of the problem right there.
As much of a jackass as Trump is (I refused to vote for him no matter who he was running against) people who think it's a good idea to riot until they get the results of an election overturned are a far, far greater threat to the nation than anything His Orangeness is at all likely to do.
Unless the left actually starts a shooting revolution. Then all bets are off.
I want to absolutely, completely, utterly expunge from my FaceBook feed any and all references to (1) Trump (2) Sports (3) Celebrity gossip. This crap is an absolute flood, making any friends and family news impossible to find buried in the bottom of the garbage dump. (Yes, I know, but I'll get my news from an actual news source, thank you; anything on Facebook that mentions Trump is just two armed camps shrieking obscenities at each other, with zero actual information content.)
These vermin will go after anyone. I've seen carefully targeted spearphishing attempting to steal from a charity for terminally ill children. Stealing from a library is nothing for these scum.
So what do most smart people do after buying a new phone? They buy a case or bumper to ensure that the screen and/or glass back don't get destroyed the first time the damn thing falls out of your pocket.
Especially Samsung phones, which are made of the slipperiest substance this side of greased Teflon. (Love the phones, but yeah... I don't walk out of the store with one without a Seidio case/belt clip for it. Dang things practically jump out of my hands. Not a problem with a case made out of something that's not the mechanical friction equivalent of a superconductor. They ought to make bearings out of that stuff.)
9/11 did change something -- passengers will no longer meekly submit to hijackers; they'll swarm and stomp them.
It amazes me that people continue to believe Trump is impulsive. There's nothing impulsive about anything Trump does; it's all extremely calculated. If I didn't know better I was say the press were in collusion to spread that myth in order to make people underestimate Trump, but as usual Occam's razor applies and the press are just full of idiots.
As a point to consider: How many times has Trump "impulsively" pulled his gun and shot, or even threatened anyone? Never? Not once?
He does have a concealed carry license, and in an interview he said he's almost always carrying.
That data point should be factored into any discussion about how "impulsive" he may or may not be.
(Disclaimer: Charter #NeverTrump member since the first time he made noises about running as a Reform Party candidate; I didn't vote for the SOB.)
Nah, the volcanoes on Kauai are quite extinct.
You might think so... I thought so, too, a couple decades ago when the broker handling my 401k touted some investment scheme involving land prices in Hawaii never losing value. I lost about ten grand on that one.
From TFA, it seems like these are old titles, many of the people who inherited them have no idea they "own" these properties, and thus haven't been paying property taxes on them since 180something.
I don't much care for The Zuck, but before taking off on the all too predictable partisan political tears, people should inform themselves on which Supreme Court justices ruled which way on the Kelo decision.
This would put many people in danger if they did this. I wont elaborate.
You think Julian Asshat cares? He blew the cover of people who worked with us against Al Queda in Afghanistan, and when questioned about it, said that anyone who worked with the United States deserved to die, so ha ha ha ha ha.
I checked about:support and saw that multiprocess windows was not enabled. Installed the Add-on Compatibility Reporter and saw that WoT (yeah, privacy, blah blah spyware blah blah) and Ubuntu Modifications add-ons were incompatible with multiprocess. Disabled those two and ... wow. The speedup and responsiveness improvement is substantial. I also disabled WoT on my Windows 10 laptop, and the speedup there was also improvement there.
Part of it could be "Yeah, running fewer add-ons, of course it'll be faster", but I've got a whole bunch of other add-ons; Tree Style Tab, NoScript, LastPass, etc. I think multi-process is a win.
Ooma has "Contacts only" calling! I'm definitely going to have to check that out.
The spoofing issue makes a blacklist almost as useless for phone spam as for email spam.
What I want instead is a whitelist. Everything goes to voicemail, without ringing my phone, not even once, unless it's on the whitelist.
If someone not on the whitelist wants to talk to me, they can darn well leave a message, or I will never know or care that they called.
People I call automatically go on the whitelist unless I say otherwise
And, just to mess with <redacted> robocallers, my voicemail message is "Hello?" (pause for response, repeat "Hello" a few times if there isn't a response) Then, when they pause, "This is an automated answering service. Do you have any other message for the people at this number?"
(Yeah, this means they'll show up in my voicemail rather than silently vanishing from my universe, but I want to screw up their business model of cheap robo-calling, and only bringing in an expensive agent when someone answers.)
I certainly don't expect a CalExit... if it ever looks like there's the faintest possibility that it might happen, I'll have to make a run for the border before they put up an iron curtain at Donner Pass. My impression is that CalExit is just the usual suspects frothing at the mouth. Nobody serious is seriously proposing it.
While you make a valid point about Federalism, your belief that "the current administration has spent 8 years weaponizing the Federal government to go after his opponents" is - to put it as nicely as possible - based on pure imagination.
Exaggeration. A bit. But this administration sicced the IRS onto a whole bunch of conservative organizations in the lead-up to the 2012 election. Plus a couple of token leftist organizations which were far enough left that they opposed Obama from the other side. If any so-called liberals objected, I never heard about it; they weren't objecting very much.
That's really something that should not be permitted, by either side. Ever.
Is that full calexit or just the loony parts leaving and the rest leaving CA and staying in the US?
Full CalExit. I looked up the election results nationwide and California on Wikipedia and did the arithmetic.
(Disclaimer: I didn't vote for the SOB.)
I note that in all the discussion of how Clinton won the popular vote, in CalExit America, she actually lost by about half a million votes. California's vote was that lopsided.
Trump is ... an embarrassment, at best, but the overheated histrionics of the Left wore very very thin a long time ago.
I've been saying for years: Never give powers to your very favorite president in history that you wouldn't want to see in the hands of the president who horrifies you the most. The current administration has spent 8 years weaponizing the Federal government to go after his opponents. For those who applauded that... we'll see how that works out for you in the next 4-8 years.
Maybe we'll get some actual consensus that federalism and limited powers are a good thing again. If so, a Trump presidency might be just the medicine we need, no matter how bad it tastes.
At a previous employer, HR did some actual benefits mailing from a third party I'd never heard of... a domain with a wacky name like "12monkeys.com". (That wasn't the name, I don't think, but it was something like that.) I think the domain's whois was even privacy protected. I sounded the "We are being phished!" alarm with IT. HR was kind of put out, but my boss approved of my actions.
Plus, Samsung's phones (which I love otherwise) are made of the slipperiest substance this side of greased Teflon. I could not keep the dang thing in my hands until I put a case on it. (Seidio case, also sold by Best Buy as their "Platinum" case. Since I had a Palm Pilot, my first criteria for a cell phone is that Seidio makes a case for it.)
I think if they don't have a headphone jack in future phones, though, that I may find myself looking elsewhere.
Question: Did Carson just repeat some wild notion that Ellen G. White cooked up that he heard in Sunday School as a kid and never had any particular reason to question or look into, and all the usual suspects are playing "Gotcha!! Whadda maroon!!"? Or does he continue to maintain that the pyramids were for grain storage?
I suspect the Libertarians and Greens did better is that 1) they were on the ballot, and 2) were not the malign Ooma-Loompa, and 3) were not the evil shrill harpy. (The LP is generally my "A Plague on Both Your Parties" vote, and that's basically why I voted for Johnson this time.)
No, I was not "throwing away my vote". In California, I didn't have any meaningful vote to throw away; Hillary was going to get over 60% of the vote no matter what. Might as well use what little vote I had for someone who, though with lots of his own problems, didn't make me want to call for an exorcist.
Also "2010"
Cue the Leslie Fish song "Grandma Went Out With a Bang". (Annoying for the assumption that Grandma's plutonium pacemaker would explode at cremation, but a funny song, still.)
Oh, yeah, I was going to mention this one. The constantly changing T-shirt was a nice touch. Ron Glass played the part perfectly.
Bonus, Hemsley's character eventually comes up with the theologically proper thing to say to a demon. :)