Isn't that going to be a bit of a battery drain issue? In order to do that, its going to have to constantly be running something in the background checking your GPS.
That being said, Google is already doing this on Android. I know this because I'm constantly getting maps notifications of how long it will take to drive to home/work, unasked. Still, I think it only does that twice a day, and this uber thing seems completely open-ended.
. 'Chicago-machine', I guess, carries a lot of specific negative meanings to you, but I'll assume it's is essentially code for 'Democrat' or 'urban' or something.
It must be. If you know anything about Chicago politics, you'd know that the only contested race Obama ever ran in Chicago he lost to a longtime local politician due largely to being portrayed as an outsider. Lost it badly. Didn't even get 30%. His Senate race after that, his main claim to fame during the primary was an endorsement from a politician from rural southern Illinois (whose father happened to be beloved bowtied former Senator Paul Simon), and the general he largely won by default.
He's no more a product of any "Chicago Machine" (whatever that is) than Mitt Romney.
I said "KKK-types", not "official KKK members". We are talking about people who want to promote white male supremacy as an organizing principle of the USA. I don't really give a crap about what clubs they've officially paid dues to, and as long as those folks are all pulling in more-or-less the same direction, its unhelpful to argue about such things.
US elections baffle me. You use optical scanners? We use humans.
Its a good criticism. The nice thing about using humans to count ballots is that it very nicely parallelizes the task. You can make it go as fast as you like just by adding humans, and we have 300 million of those in the USA.
The problem we have is that paying humans (well...legal residents) to do things in the USA is very expensive, and by international standards we don't have a lot of unemployed (something like 5% of the labor force ATM). So basically anything in this country that can't be shipped overseas for processing or performed by migrant workers will get mechanized/computerized as much as possible. Somehow I'm guessing Republicans wouldn't trust migrant workers to count their ballots, so that leaves machines.
Note that the election was more than two weeks ago now, and ballots that have to be human-counted are still being counted.
Except that electors in the past have cast votes against the candidate they were supposed to support, and in this particular election one of the parties doesn't really like it's candidate anyway. Apparently three republican electors have pledged not to vote for Trump.
Faithless electors are almost always protest votes. In other words, you'll only see one if their vote won't change the result.
The only time an elector has ever voted for the other major party candidate was in 1796, and the only time it happened when the electors in question thought they were going to change the result by doing it was 1800. The rules (Constitution) were changed after that. Using electors to overturn the election result just will not happen.
I don't like it either, but I've been a Democrat a long time, and this is not my first loss to have to live through, and it likely won't be my last. Sometimes, even if you are 100% right, you have to be in the opposition for a term or two. Its healthy for the country in the long-run.
To expound, the electors are chosen by slate. It's not like they're just random people from the state who go vote. If the Republican wins and your state has 10 EV, then 10 prominent Republicans, like people who worked hard on the state campaign, etc, are sent to the Electoral College to proudly cast their vote for the Republican they helped get elected. And if the Democrats had won the state, the 10 electors would be prominent Democrats.
As someone who could have perhaps been one of those Democrats in the (extinction-event unlikely) event that Clinton won Oklahoma, this is exactly right. There is essentially 0 chance of this having any effect. The last time an elector switched to the other major party was 1796 (the first competitive election).
If you don't want something like this happening again, and want to do something productive about it, work on getting your state to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Its only a few big states away from getting enacted. If Florida, Texas, and one other state joined, we'd have popular vote next election.
Most of the violence I saw this election, even during the primaries, was surrounding Trump rallies. This includes the candidate himself inciting violence from the podium.
This wasn't happening at rallies for any of the Democrats, or for any of the other Republicans. Every candidate to my knowledge was getting protesters at their rallies, but it was only around Trump supporters where the violence happened.
Now if a system isn't working the way you want, any good engineer will tell you to go look for the common element to find the problem. The common element to the violence this cycle has been Trump. Not "Republicans". This isn't partisan. Just Trump. What's going on here shouldn't be a mystery.
You wouldn't know it from the SJWs, but you can walk a gay lesbian wearing a hijab through the whitest white town and the worst they might experience is a short chat with local law enforcement
To bring this thread full-circle, just because you have the privilege of being a Cis White guy so you don't ever have to experience that stuff, doesn't mean it isn't happening to people.
Ethics reform - five year ban on administration officials becoming lobbyists, can never lobby for foreign nations. I wonder how cozy corporations are to YOUR government...
4) Trump has already had a lobbyist in the employ of a foreign government sit in on one of his classified breifings.
On the bright side, his administration is off to an amazingly fast start. Most administrations have to work up to this level of corruption over years.
Pretty well. I kept my doctor and health plan. So did most everyone one I know.
The only people who didn't were people who were paying into those scam plans that offered no real coverage, which the ACA made illegal. If they were mad at it no longer being legal to fleece them, I honestly don't know what to say for them. Perhaps they should take up watching TV preachers so they can throw their money away that way instead.
Note that this is not a port of Microsoft's Visual Studio to the Mac. All they did was buy Xamarin Studio a few months back and slap their nameplate on it. They are completely different products with different codebases, and look to remain that way.
From a technical standpoint, there's not really much reason to be exited about this, unless you were already a Xamarin fan, and want to see it better-supported.
I'd love to believe Amtrak is the answer. Took it myself quite a few times when I lived in Philly. I was the proud holder of a one-price monthly transit pass for years, and took the train to work every day.
The problem is it doesn't go everywhere. For instance, nowhere within 100 miles of where I now live, and that's just a spur. To get to a hub on the real system, I'd have to make that same 250 mile trip to Dallas. Even more, I have to believe if people seriously starting using it, its infrastructure would have to scale to the point where all the stuff we love about airports would happen exactly the same with train terminals, but with slower travel too.
This isn't the first ever account Twitter has suspended either. They suspend accounts DAILY for being abusive to others, or for advocating morally repugnant things. I know of one account that got deleted merely for sharing the same last name as the leader of ISIS (it eventually got reinstated). So rather than incorrectly asking why "only right wing accounts get targeted", why don't we instead ask "Why only when it happens to right-wingers does/. care, and all kinds of people come out of the woodwork to defend their right to be abusive?"
And no, defending abusive speech is no more "defending free speech" than defending a person's right to own another human being would be "defending freedom". There have to be some restrictions somewhere, or there won't be any freedom for anyone but the biggest bullies. As ardent Free Speech defender, Justice Learned Hand said back during WWII:
What is this liberty that must lie in the hearts of men and women? It is not the ruthless, the unbridled will; it is not the freedom to do as one likes. That is the denial of liberty and leads straight to its overthrow. A society in which men recognize no check on their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few — as we have learned to our sorrow.
I don't want complain but the problem with most flights is not flighttime but the total time. You have to get to the Airport, check in, wait in line to go through the security check and wait at the gate. How about som innovation here?
Just as an example, Dallas is a 4 hour drive away for me (about 250 miles).
If I want to fly there it will take: 30 minutes to drive to airport. 1.5 hours for checkin, security, boarding etc. (the TSA recommended time for domestic flights), 1.25 hours for the flight itself, another hour to deplane, get my baggage, and rent a car, and another half hour (being really really generous here. Ever seen Dallas traffic?) to drive where I actually want to be in Dallas. That's a total of nearly 5 hours. It will today cost me about $160, plus car rental fees when I get there, whereas my 12ish gallons of gas for the car trip would be about $25.
So really you'd have to travel more than about 300 miles before an airplane would be quicker, and that's assuming you can score a direct flight. For example, for me to fly to Austin (say for SxSW), a 7.5 hour drive, would take AT BEST 7 hours once you factor in layovers and all the BS time wasted.
(Admittedly, the drive times aren't budgeted for refueling and bio breaks, but I think they are also calculated assuming travel no faster than the posted speed limits).
They didn't "turn out fervently" in the primaries either. But the ones who did nearly all voted for Clinton.
The problem is that in some states (particularly in the South) nearly all Democratic voters in the state are minority. Sanders not appealing to those voters meant Clinton took just about every single delegate in those states. Since the Democratic delegate selection process is not winner-take-all, and they were effectively splitting the white vote, this represented an insurmountable lead. It was all over but the shouting (and my there was a lot of that) by mid April.
when an outsider challenged her they cheated and undercut him in any way they could
This is totally untrue. Sanders completely failed to win over the people of color who are the base of the party, so he lost. Those are real thinking American citizens, and their votes matter just as much as anybody else's. Thanks mostly to that, Sanders was effectively out of contention after the primaries on April 19th. He would have had to win almost every delegate after that, and that was just not going to happen, short of the mythical "in bed with dead hooker or live boy" situation.
The Emails Russian intelligence stole from the DNC servers they hacked were all authored after that date. The DNC, like the RNC, is a nearly powerless organization, so even if they had wanted to "steal" anything they couldn't, and it was far to late to do so at that date.
This whole "Sanders got robbed" narrative is a complete fabrication. If anything here is responsible for the way the election went, its that his voters bought into hook-line-and-sinker when Trump and the Russians started pushing it.
Which I guess gets us back onto the topic of lies masquerading as factual news...
. It's not Facebook, guys, nor racism,... There's no mystery here why voters rejected her. Heck, she couldn't even get the majority of votes from white women
Your facts are in violent disagreement with your conclusions.
Not real sure what the big deal is here. Trump never hid that he was a climate denier while he was running. That's who America voted for, so that's what they were asking for. From a political standpoint, it would be wrong for him not to appoint climate deniers to head environmental agencies. That's how Democracy is supposed to work.
I hope nobody thought all this was some kind of joke.
The Trump effect is not a generational thing its a regional thing - look at the electoral college results map. If you're pissed, blame the right category of people please.
It would be pretty damn hypocritical to go around blaming other people, when the Slashdot moderators were practically operating as an arm of the Trump campaign for the last 4 months. If you're looking for a culprit, you're soaking in it.
Slashdot Mirror
Isn't that going to be a bit of a battery drain issue? In order to do that, its going to have to constantly be running something in the background checking your GPS.
That being said, Google is already doing this on Android. I know this because I'm constantly getting maps notifications of how long it will take to drive to home/work, unasked. Still, I think it only does that twice a day, and this uber thing seems completely open-ended.
. 'Chicago-machine', I guess, carries a lot of specific negative meanings to you, but I'll assume it's is essentially code for 'Democrat' or 'urban' or something.
It must be. If you know anything about Chicago politics, you'd know that the only contested race Obama ever ran in Chicago he lost to a longtime local politician due largely to being portrayed as an outsider. Lost it badly. Didn't even get 30%. His Senate race after that, his main claim to fame during the primary was an endorsement from a politician from rural southern Illinois (whose father happened to be beloved bowtied former Senator Paul Simon), and the general he largely won by default.
He's no more a product of any "Chicago Machine" (whatever that is) than Mitt Romney.
I said "KKK-types", not "official KKK members". We are talking about people who want to promote white male supremacy as an organizing principle of the USA. I don't really give a crap about what clubs they've officially paid dues to, and as long as those folks are all pulling in more-or-less the same direction, its unhelpful to argue about such things.
US elections baffle me. You use optical scanners? We use humans.
Its a good criticism. The nice thing about using humans to count ballots is that it very nicely parallelizes the task. You can make it go as fast as you like just by adding humans, and we have 300 million of those in the USA.
The problem we have is that paying humans (well...legal residents) to do things in the USA is very expensive, and by international standards we don't have a lot of unemployed (something like 5% of the labor force ATM). So basically anything in this country that can't be shipped overseas for processing or performed by migrant workers will get mechanized/computerized as much as possible. Somehow I'm guessing Republicans wouldn't trust migrant workers to count their ballots, so that leaves machines.
Note that the election was more than two weeks ago now, and ballots that have to be human-counted are still being counted.
Except that electors in the past have cast votes against the candidate they were supposed to support, and in this particular election one of the parties doesn't really like it's candidate anyway. Apparently three republican electors have pledged not to vote for Trump.
Faithless electors are almost always protest votes. In other words, you'll only see one if their vote won't change the result.
The only time an elector has ever voted for the other major party candidate was in 1796, and the only time it happened when the electors in question thought they were going to change the result by doing it was 1800. The rules (Constitution) were changed after that. Using electors to overturn the election result just will not happen.
I don't like it either, but I've been a Democrat a long time, and this is not my first loss to have to live through, and it likely won't be my last. Sometimes, even if you are 100% right, you have to be in the opposition for a term or two. Its healthy for the country in the long-run.
To expound, the electors are chosen by slate. It's not like they're just random people from the state who go vote. If the Republican wins and your state has 10 EV, then 10 prominent Republicans, like people who worked hard on the state campaign, etc, are sent to the Electoral College to proudly cast their vote for the Republican they helped get elected. And if the Democrats had won the state, the 10 electors would be prominent Democrats.
As someone who could have perhaps been one of those Democrats in the (extinction-event unlikely) event that Clinton won Oklahoma, this is exactly right. There is essentially 0 chance of this having any effect. The last time an elector switched to the other major party was 1796 (the first competitive election).
If you don't want something like this happening again, and want to do something productive about it, work on getting your state to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Its only a few big states away from getting enacted. If Florida, Texas, and one other state joined, we'd have popular vote next election.
Most of the violence I saw this election, even during the primaries, was surrounding Trump rallies. This includes the candidate himself inciting violence from the podium.
This wasn't happening at rallies for any of the Democrats, or for any of the other Republicans. Every candidate to my knowledge was getting protesters at their rallies, but it was only around Trump supporters where the violence happened.
Now if a system isn't working the way you want, any good engineer will tell you to go look for the common element to find the problem. The common element to the violence this cycle has been Trump. Not "Republicans". This isn't partisan. Just Trump. What's going on here shouldn't be a mystery.
You wouldn't know it from the SJWs, but you can walk a gay lesbian wearing a hijab through the whitest white town and the worst they might experience is a short chat with local law enforcement
Last I heard, Louisiana was part of the USA. As was New York City, and Charlotte, NC
To bring this thread full-circle, just because you have the privilege of being a Cis White guy so you don't ever have to experience that stuff, doesn't mean it isn't happening to people.
I find it both amusing and informative that this post got modded "informative" during US business hours, then downvoted during Russian business hours.
Trump isn't really a Republican. He's a Right-Wing Nationalist Populist. The typical term for this is National-Socalist.
Ethics reform - five year ban on administration officials becoming lobbyists, can never lobby for foreign nations. I wonder how cozy corporations are to YOUR government...
4) Trump has already had a lobbyist in the employ of a foreign government sit in on one of his classified breifings. On the bright side, his administration is off to an amazingly fast start. Most administrations have to work up to this level of corruption over years.
Trump or at least congress can craft the regulations with whatever exemptions they see fit.
Donald calls this process "Draining the Swamp".
...into Washington D.C.
Pretty well. I kept my doctor and health plan. So did most everyone one I know.
The only people who didn't were people who were paying into those scam plans that offered no real coverage, which the ACA made illegal. If they were mad at it no longer being legal to fleece them, I honestly don't know what to say for them. Perhaps they should take up watching TV preachers so they can throw their money away that way instead.
this is no mere name change, it definitely feels like a major new version.
...of Xamarin Studio.
Note that this is not a port of Microsoft's Visual Studio to the Mac. All they did was buy Xamarin Studio a few months back and slap their nameplate on it. They are completely different products with different codebases, and look to remain that way.
From a technical standpoint, there's not really much reason to be exited about this, unless you were already a Xamarin fan, and want to see it better-supported.
I'd love to believe Amtrak is the answer. Took it myself quite a few times when I lived in Philly. I was the proud holder of a one-price monthly transit pass for years, and took the train to work every day.
The problem is it doesn't go everywhere. For instance, nowhere within 100 miles of where I now live, and that's just a spur. To get to a hub on the real system, I'd have to make that same 250 mile trip to Dallas. Even more, I have to believe if people seriously starting using it, its infrastructure would have to scale to the point where all the stuff we love about airports would happen exactly the same with train terminals, but with slower travel too.
This isn't the first ever account Twitter has suspended either. They suspend accounts DAILY for being abusive to others, or for advocating morally repugnant things. I know of one account that got deleted merely for sharing the same last name as the leader of ISIS (it eventually got reinstated). So rather than incorrectly asking why "only right wing accounts get targeted", why don't we instead ask "Why only when it happens to right-wingers does /. care, and all kinds of people come out of the woodwork to defend their right to be abusive?"
And no, defending abusive speech is no more "defending free speech" than defending a person's right to own another human being would be "defending freedom". There have to be some restrictions somewhere, or there won't be any freedom for anyone but the biggest bullies. As ardent Free Speech defender, Justice Learned Hand said back during WWII:
What is this liberty that must lie in the hearts of men and women? It is not the ruthless, the unbridled will; it is not the freedom to do as one likes. That is the denial of liberty and leads straight to its overthrow. A society in which men recognize no check on their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few — as we have learned to our sorrow.
I don't want complain but the problem with most flights is not flighttime but the total time. You have to get to the Airport, check in, wait in line to go through the security check and wait at the gate. How about som innovation here?
Just as an example, Dallas is a 4 hour drive away for me (about 250 miles).
If I want to fly there it will take: 30 minutes to drive to airport. 1.5 hours for checkin, security, boarding etc. (the TSA recommended time for domestic flights), 1.25 hours for the flight itself, another hour to deplane, get my baggage, and rent a car, and another half hour (being really really generous here. Ever seen Dallas traffic?) to drive where I actually want to be in Dallas. That's a total of nearly 5 hours. It will today cost me about $160, plus car rental fees when I get there, whereas my 12ish gallons of gas for the car trip would be about $25.
So really you'd have to travel more than about 300 miles before an airplane would be quicker, and that's assuming you can score a direct flight. For example, for me to fly to Austin (say for SxSW), a 7.5 hour drive, would take AT BEST 7 hours once you factor in layovers and all the BS time wasted.
(Admittedly, the drive times aren't budgeted for refueling and bio breaks, but I think they are also calculated assuming travel no faster than the posted speed limits).
They didn't "turn out fervently" in the primaries either. But the ones who did nearly all voted for Clinton.
The problem is that in some states (particularly in the South) nearly all Democratic voters in the state are minority. Sanders not appealing to those voters meant Clinton took just about every single delegate in those states. Since the Democratic delegate selection process is not winner-take-all, and they were effectively splitting the white vote, this represented an insurmountable lead. It was all over but the shouting (and my there was a lot of that) by mid April.
when an outsider challenged her they cheated and undercut him in any way they could
This is totally untrue. Sanders completely failed to win over the people of color who are the base of the party, so he lost. Those are real thinking American citizens, and their votes matter just as much as anybody else's. Thanks mostly to that, Sanders was effectively out of contention after the primaries on April 19th. He would have had to win almost every delegate after that, and that was just not going to happen, short of the mythical "in bed with dead hooker or live boy" situation.
The Emails Russian intelligence stole from the DNC servers they hacked were all authored after that date. The DNC, like the RNC, is a nearly powerless organization, so even if they had wanted to "steal" anything they couldn't, and it was far to late to do so at that date.
This whole "Sanders got robbed" narrative is a complete fabrication. If anything here is responsible for the way the election went, its that his voters bought into hook-line-and-sinker when Trump and the Russians started pushing it.
Which I guess gets us back onto the topic of lies masquerading as factual news...
. It's not Facebook, guys, nor racism, ... There's no mystery here why voters rejected her. Heck, she couldn't even get the majority of votes from white women
Your facts are in violent disagreement with your conclusions.
4) He just voted in an Atheist for POTUS.
Not real sure what the big deal is here. Trump never hid that he was a climate denier while he was running. That's who America voted for, so that's what they were asking for. From a political standpoint, it would be wrong for him not to appoint climate deniers to head environmental agencies. That's how Democracy is supposed to work.
I hope nobody thought all this was some kind of joke.
The Trump effect is not a generational thing its a regional thing - look at the electoral college results map. If you're pissed, blame the right category of people please.
It would be pretty damn hypocritical to go around blaming other people, when the Slashdot moderators were practically operating as an arm of the Trump campaign for the last 4 months. If you're looking for a culprit, you're soaking in it.