Yeah, it would have been a tougher decision if I lived in a state that was remotely in play. Since California is not even close to in play, I feel free to indulge myself.
They where spreading FUD about the election SYSTEM in this country. They didn't care one wit about which candidate won, they just wanted to make people not trust the system. They where sowing unrest, not trying to get Trump elected....
I think lacking a Libertarian candidate as a "Plague on both your parties" vote, or if Budnarik were the LP candidate again, I'd have written in Cthulhu as the lesser evil.
But then, I'm in Calipornia, where Hillary would have gotten 60% of the vote if she were sacrificing babies to Molech at each campaign stop, so my vote couldn't possibly make any difference.
I'm not sure what I'd have done if I'd lived in a state where where my vote had any actual relevance. (Cue youtube video from "Third Rock" where Dick is pounding his head against the voting machine...)
I think this is part of it... Putin's goal is to "mess with us", whatever stirs the pot.
However, my observation on my Facebook feed (with friends on both Right and Left) is that almost all of the chatter about this is of the "Ban Guns!!!" sort. The conservative types were almost a full day behind the leftist ones.
Doesn't stop the leftist types from shrieking "How **DARE** you **POLITICIZE** this **TRAGEDY**!!!" the moment anyone not so leftist demurs from their politicizing in favor of their solution of banning all guns.
I've made this modest proposal for years, but nobody listens.
cf. Dean Ing's story "Very Proper Charlies." That posited responsibility on the part of the news media, so it was, of course, science fiction. Or, perhaps, fantasy.
I don't run an ad blocker, but I do use NoScript, and a while back, Forbes would not load at all. Now, there's a splash page with a "click to enter site" link, and on the rare occasions I follow a link to Forbes, it displays fine.
I'm not sure about Wired. At one point, they refused to show anything if they thought you were using an ad blocker, and even "temp allow all" in NoScript wouldn't get past this. Their "help" link for this said about NoScript "It's too complicated. Don't use NoScript", to which my reply was "Oh **HELL** no!" and I put Wired on my personal index expurgatorius.
I think I may have seen a Wired article recently by accident; if so, I didn't run into this again, so maybe they changed their mind about that.
This could be workable, but when implementing it, you'd better understand that the Teamsters are going to be sabotaging the vehicles that aren't driven by their members, and be prepared to deal with that.
On Facebook, a lot of times, I don't want to "mod the post down". I just want this post, and any post like it, to be gone from my newsfeed.
I've got Facebook friends across the political spectrum. Some I want to see their personal posts, but I don't want to see anything political from either the ones with Antifa leanings, or the hard-core Trumpunists.
If I could say "Never show me anything from (these people) which mentions Trump", I'd be much happier with Facebook. (Well, somewhat less disgusted with it, anyway.)
I think it's a case of (1) limited number of mod points, (2) mod points are awarded randomly and occasionally, and they expire after a few days if not used, so you can't count on having them, (3) You can not both mod and participate in a topic, and (4) meta-moderation, allowing occasional people to vote "fair/unfair" on moderations, hopefully to catch those who abuse it.
Regardless of anything that Carter Page may or may not have been involved in, we are not at war with Russia. Therefore, your assertion that he had committed "treason" shows that you are completely ignorant of how the word is specifically defined in the U. S. Constitution.
But then, the Left is pretty unclear on that whole "Constitution" thing. They seem to think the Constitution says that they have an absolute right to stamp out anyone saying or writing anything that they disagree with.
Because at some point, you will be given an Office 2019 file, and you're version will barf all over it.
Not likely. Microsoft provides all kinds of free converters. We can open modern documents in Office 2003, in fact.
So, they gave up on the "Every new version of Office creates documents that no previous version of Office can even recognize as an Office document at all" thing, then?
That's one of the main things that pushed me to Star/Open/Libre Office way back when. Maybe it's not currently a problem... But I'm happy enough with LibreOffice that I don't have any real incentive to switch, even if Microsoft were to release Offices as RMS-pure FLOSS.
Even as Hollywood studios report fewer footfalls in theaters
"Well, there's your problem right there!"
"Footfall" would make a great movie. I can think of others -- "The High Crusade" is near the top of the "I'd love to see this on the big screen, and it's a story that Hollywood might even be able to understand well enough to not botch it" list.
But no, we get endless reboots of rehashes of remakes of comic books and crappy old Hollywood skiffy, for the most part.
Cisco, for one. When I worked there (I assume this hasn't changed) they didn't provide "normal" insurance; they self-insured. It was administered by Cigna, but Cisco paid the claims. Cisco had their own clinic (in Building Q, I think I recall) with doctors, pharmacy, PT operation. Very convenient having most medical needs right there on the campus.
I want stories I have not yet read. I want them starting with the oldest one I have not yet read, going forward in chronological order.
I want kill patterns. Anything referencing topics I have no interest in, and any of the many screed sites, clickbaity crap sites, glurge sites, etc., that impinge on my awareness. When I mark a pattern as "kill it" I want *NO* stories that mention it, no matter how deeply nested share of a share of a share of a share it is.
I want, when I find a discussion has become tiresome, to say "Give me no more updates to this", and it NEVER shows up again.
Yeah, every time I put any thought into what I want the UI of a social networking platform to look like, I soon find out I'm re-inventing Usenet and trn 4.0 with kill files. Maybe with graphics and stuff added, but I want that kind of functionality.
Facebook is grimly determined to keep flinging the same old crap I hated the first time I saw it back in my face over and over again, with actual new content I want hidden many pages down beneath the crap. If it weren't for family and friends who use it who I want to keep in touch with, I'd have bailed on Facebook long ago. It's an abomination.
There was also Algis Budrys' "Rogue Moon". Mysterious alien installation found on the moon that kills you if you make a wrong move inside; replicas are sent in, and they learn from the previous replica how get just a little further in.
Meanwhile the memo continues to be misconstrued in part or its entirety as necessary.
More like, the usual suspects continue to tell Big Lie after Big Lie about the content of the memo. It said nothing of the sort that Google asserts that it said, and the "news" media uncritically parrots his Big Lies about the content of the memo when reporting about it.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, it would have been a tougher decision if I lived in a state that was remotely in play. Since California is not even close to in play, I feel free to indulge myself.
They where spreading FUD about the election SYSTEM in this country. They didn't care one wit about which candidate won, they just wanted to make people not trust the system. They where sowing unrest, not trying to get Trump elected....
Bingo!
I think lacking a Libertarian candidate as a "Plague on both your parties" vote, or if Budnarik were the LP candidate again, I'd have written in Cthulhu as the lesser evil.
But then, I'm in Calipornia, where Hillary would have gotten 60% of the vote if she were sacrificing babies to Molech at each campaign stop, so my vote couldn't possibly make any difference.
I'm not sure what I'd have done if I'd lived in a state where where my vote had any actual relevance. (Cue youtube video from "Third Rock" where Dick is pounding his head against the voting machine...)
I think this is part of it... Putin's goal is to "mess with us", whatever stirs the pot.
However, my observation on my Facebook feed (with friends on both Right and Left) is that almost all of the chatter about this is of the "Ban Guns!!!" sort. The conservative types were almost a full day behind the leftist ones.
Doesn't stop the leftist types from shrieking "How **DARE** you **POLITICIZE** this **TRAGEDY**!!!" the moment anyone not so leftist demurs from their politicizing in favor of their solution of banning all guns.
I've made this modest proposal for years, but nobody listens.
cf. Dean Ing's story "Very Proper Charlies." That posited responsibility on the part of the news media, so it was, of course, science fiction. Or, perhaps, fantasy.
I don't run an ad blocker, but I do use NoScript, and a while back, Forbes would not load at all. Now, there's a splash page with a "click to enter site" link, and on the rare occasions I follow a link to Forbes, it displays fine.
I'm not sure about Wired. At one point, they refused to show anything if they thought you were using an ad blocker, and even "temp allow all" in NoScript wouldn't get past this. Their "help" link for this said about NoScript "It's too complicated. Don't use NoScript", to which my reply was "Oh **HELL** no!" and I put Wired on my personal index expurgatorius.
I think I may have seen a Wired article recently by accident; if so, I didn't run into this again, so maybe they changed their mind about that.
This could be workable, but when implementing it, you'd better understand that the Teamsters are going to be sabotaging the vehicles that aren't driven by their members, and be prepared to deal with that.
100% of your time is lost riding a car. A small fraction of it is lost when commuting by other means.
Depends. On my commute, I listen to podcasts, which isn't "lost time". Some people listen to audiobooks.
On Facebook, a lot of times, I don't want to "mod the post down". I just want this post, and any post like it, to be gone from my newsfeed.
I've got Facebook friends across the political spectrum. Some I want to see their personal posts, but I don't want to see anything political from either the ones with Antifa leanings, or the hard-core Trumpunists.
If I could say "Never show me anything from (these people) which mentions Trump", I'd be much happier with Facebook. (Well, somewhat less disgusted with it, anyway.)
I think it's a case of (1) limited number of mod points, (2) mod points are awarded randomly and occasionally, and they expire after a few days if not used, so you can't count on having them, (3) You can not both mod and participate in a topic, and (4) meta-moderation, allowing occasional people to vote "fair/unfair" on moderations, hopefully to catch those who abuse it.
Regardless of anything that Carter Page may or may not have been involved in, we are not at war with Russia. Therefore, your assertion that he had committed "treason" shows that you are completely ignorant of how the word is specifically defined in the U. S. Constitution.
But then, the Left is pretty unclear on that whole "Constitution" thing. They seem to think the Constitution says that they have an absolute right to stamp out anyone saying or writing anything that they disagree with.
I noticed the words "Don't Panic" displayed in large, friendly letters on the Tesla's console.
Let me make sure I have a firm grip on my towel.
When u need them. Cops are the first job I hope is done away with. Replaced by a robot.... that would be sweet.
CitizenYouAreIllegallyParkedYouHaveThirtySecondsToMoveYourCar*BLAM*BLAM*BLAM*BLAM*BLAM*
(but the sun didn't come up in Point Barrow, Alaska.)
In other astonishing news, the sun came up this morning, water is wet, and it's dang cold in Point Barrow in February.
Because at some point, you will be given an Office 2019 file, and you're version will barf all over it.
Not likely. Microsoft provides all kinds of free converters. We can open modern documents in Office 2003, in fact.
So, they gave up on the "Every new version of Office creates documents that no previous version of Office can even recognize as an Office document at all" thing, then?
That's one of the main things that pushed me to Star/Open/Libre Office way back when. Maybe it's not currently a problem... But I'm happy enough with LibreOffice that I don't have any real incentive to switch, even if Microsoft were to release Offices as RMS-pure FLOSS.
"Well, there's your problem right there!"
"Footfall" would make a great movie. I can think of others -- "The High Crusade" is near the top of the "I'd love to see this on the big screen, and it's a story that Hollywood might even be able to understand well enough to not botch it" list.
But no, we get endless reboots of rehashes of remakes of comic books and crappy old Hollywood skiffy, for the most part.
Cisco, for one. When I worked there (I assume this hasn't changed) they didn't provide "normal" insurance; they self-insured. It was administered by Cigna, but Cisco paid the claims. Cisco had their own clinic (in Building Q, I think I recall) with doctors, pharmacy, PT operation. Very convenient having most medical needs right there on the campus.
I want stories I have not yet read. I want them starting with the oldest one I have not yet read, going forward in chronological order.
I want kill patterns. Anything referencing topics I have no interest in, and any of the many screed sites, clickbaity crap sites, glurge sites, etc., that impinge on my awareness. When I mark a pattern as "kill it" I want *NO* stories that mention it, no matter how deeply nested share of a share of a share of a share it is.
I want, when I find a discussion has become tiresome, to say "Give me no more updates to this", and it NEVER shows up again.
Yeah, every time I put any thought into what I want the UI of a social networking platform to look like, I soon find out I'm re-inventing Usenet and trn 4.0 with kill files. Maybe with graphics and stuff added, but I want that kind of functionality.
Facebook is grimly determined to keep flinging the same old crap I hated the first time I saw it back in my face over and over again, with actual new content I want hidden many pages down beneath the crap. If it weren't for family and friends who use it who I want to keep in touch with, I'd have bailed on Facebook long ago. It's an abomination.
I'm sure it involved unnatural acts involving goats, lampreys, banana slugs, and hagfish that are illegal even in California.
There was also Algis Budrys' "Rogue Moon". Mysterious alien installation found on the moon that kills you if you make a wrong move inside; replicas are sent in, and they learn from the previous replica how get just a little further in.
Die on an away mission? Well, we have a 2-hour old scan of you, welcome back
Whiirrrrrr
Ensign Redshirt: "Weren't we about to beam down the planet? Uh, Captain? Mr. Spock? Why is everyone looking at ... Oh. I died again, didn't I."
Hodgman had a minor role on a few episodes of Battlestar Galactica after those commercials.
As I read this, New York isn't imposing a rule that would run afoul of the FCC's ban on states and localities imposing rules on internet providers.
They're just saying that neutrality is a condition of doing business with New York.
If you don't want to do net neutrality, fine, knock yourself out, but New York will not do business with you. Your choice.
I don't see that the FCC has a say in this.
Meanwhile the memo continues to be misconstrued in part or its entirety as necessary.
More like, the usual suspects continue to tell Big Lie after Big Lie about the content of the memo. It said nothing of the sort that Google asserts that it said, and the "news" media uncritically parrots his Big Lies about the content of the memo when reporting about it.