They don't share their methods. They say to try to keep anyone from gaming the results, but...
Huh? You got a source for this? Looks like nonsense, but perhaps I'm just misunderstanding.
Their "methods" are that they mail out a survey to their subscribers every year, and compile the results. They are weighted by the kind of problem reported (as they mentioned in the FAQ). They state all this quite clearly in each April auto issue.
I'm not real sure how anybody could "game" that, since there's nothing you could do to erase the reports of actual problems (aside from design your car better). I suppose you could buy a bunch of CR subscriptions and reports tons of fake problems with your competitor's cars to raise the tide a bit, but there are rather a lot of competitors out there.
If you want the exact weighting matrix they use, I'd ask why? It would be useless to you without their raw data as well.
There is something to be said about mindless channel surfing... that is one thing about streaming services that I miss.... But not so much that I would go back to it.
Actually, I've spent many an evening browsing through the Netflix or HBO streaming selections without actually watching anything.
Not *everywhere*, but its always with me at work (I take notes on it), and its always with me at home. I also bring it with me to Church, because its far easier than lugging an entire Bible around. If I'm going somewhere that is likely to have wifi (eg: restaurant) I'll bring it with me.
If it could actually get network access *everywhere*, its quite likely I would. (I've tried BT phone tethering, but for some reason it worked once and I haven't been able to get it to work since). I spent the last several decades lugging a paper planner with me everywhere (typically in a backpack) before I switched to Android with Evernote, so it wouldn't be anything I'm not used to.
What I'd really like is to go to a display-less core unit that does nothing but provide other personal devices a connection to the cell radio network. Then I could change "head unit" between any-sized screen device that suits my fancy. If I want to lug a notebook with me (perhaps in a backpack), that's my business. If I want something smaller that fits in a pocket and am willing to sacrifice screen size, that'd be my decision. I could even change for the task at hand.
That's one of the issues with CR's reporting. 100 people with problems with a cupholder would rate as "poor" while 2 with a blown engine would rate as "good"
Problems with the engine-major, cooling system, transmission-major, and driveline are more likely to take a car out of service and to be more expensive to repair than the other problem areas. Consequently, we weigh these areas more heavily in our calculations of Used Car Verdicts and Predicted Reliability. Problems in any area can be an expense and a bother, though, so we report them all in the Reliability History charts.
I think the main issue here is that the reliability ratings are based on survey results, which means they don't know how reliable a car is until its been out a few years. So they are mainly useful for used cars. They will still "predict" the reliability of new models, but only if they know the model hasn't changed much from last year's design. On brand new designs/redesigns they don't provide a prediction, and usually won't recommend the car either. (Which jibes with the common layman's advice to "never buy the first year of a new car").
The main issue here is it looks like they got so excited about the Tesla S, they deviated from standard policy. Whoops.
The only thing keeping my cable going is live sports. Particularly being able to follow my favorite EPL team streamed to my devices. NBC will stream you EVERY game the league plays to your computer or mobile device, but only if you can verify that you have a cable account. People in England don't even get that. A couple of weeks ago I had to go on a business trip, and just happened to get to watch the first half of my Spurs game while waiting for my bags and in the rental car line at MIA, and again in the same situation when I landed back in TUL a few days later.
Its still pretty expensive to keep around just for that though. Probably going to get cut soon.
We've cancelled cable but last night decided to channel surf the airwaves instead of streaming something and the only thing remotely watchable was Lucifer on Fox. Everything else was dancing or singing competitions. The traditional stations don't appear to be even trying to make anything good.
The thing about those reality shows is that they are really cheap to make. What this is telling you is that the networks have given up on producing anything meaningful, and are just trying not to lose money.
I've found on business trips that the only channel that *ever* has anything interesting on is SyFy, but that's hit-or-miss.
The thing I found really telling was that Supergirl got moved from CBS to CW, and everyone associated with the show was happy about it. That's pretty damning. On CBS its average viewer age was over 55, and that was good enough to make it CBS's youngest demoed show. Think about that one for a minute. If you're watching a network show, this is who is in the audience with you.
Couldn't really disagree more with this. Its a lifesaver (perhaps literally) when I'm driving and I get a phone call. Its also damn useful in meetings, so I'm not *that guy* constantly dragging his phone out while someone else is talking.
The size of my Pebble is no different than a normal watch (actually many men's watchfaces are bigger, probably to help the wearers overcompensate, but I wouldn't buy one of those). Its battery life is about a week with the face I use, but realistically I just put it on the charger whenever I shower, and never have to think about it.
Also, it automatically adjusts for both daylight savings time and its own drift. That alone makes it the best watch I've ever owned even if I turned all notifications off. No more digging out the manual twice a year to figure out which tiny buttons to press in which sequence to reset the damn thing.
Additionally, I can change the face whenever the mood strikes me, and I effectively have a whole different watch on my arm.
If you're a person who grew up not wearing watches, I could see where you might not see the need. But for me, it would be actively stupid to go back to a normal watch.
If anything, what I'd like to do is get rid of the damn phone's display. The watch can tell me who is calling or texting, my BT headset can be used to accept calls, and for anything I need a bigger screen for my tablet would be far nicer than some tiny phone screen (even at 7+).
If there's a reason smartwatch sales are declining, its more likely just that everyone who wants one already has one. I used my last Pebble until it quit working, and will likely do the same with this one.
Let's see...users are willing to fork out a few hundred dollars every few years for the latest tech trinket, yet they want all their software for free.
I'd like all my hardware for free too. If hardware was free to make copies of, I'm sure it would be in the same boat. This is what economists call being a rational actor. If I don't want to fork out $10 for something, then clearly having it is not worth $10 to me. This is just basic economics. Arguing against it is no more sensible than raging against the incoming tide.
If NBC was making Jessica Jones and Luke Cage (exactly as they are now) and syndicating them to Netflix, then Netflix's syndicated shows would be far better than their original content. Those shows are just that freaking awesome.
A more interesting story would be to get into why the best stuff on "television" right now is being produced by Netflix and HBO, rather than the traditional TV networks and movie studios.
I'm old enough to remember when Bush beat Gore, but he didn't really because it was a big conspiracy to stop recounts in FL and Nader "stole" his votes. And then Bush beat Kerry, but he didn't really because of unfair lies spread by outside groups. And then Obama beat two different Republicans, but he didn't really because there was "massive voter fraud". And now Hillary looks likely to beat Trump, but not really because the election is being stolen.
I know this is an unfashionable opinion these days, but it IS actually possible one side lose an election fair and square. If you don't like that happening to you, be better next time.
Perhaps. But as a 5-year Samsung user, I can tell you that Samsung isn't there. I'm a little there with Android, but I could care less about any one particular Android vendor.
Providing UBI for this many people will cost the economy 4.8 Trillion Dollars. Where is this going to come from?
The US Treasury last year spent 1.4 Trillion on Social Security, Unemployment, and Labor last year, all of which theoretically would be replaced by UBI. So UBI by your numbers may be more than that, but its certainly in the ballpark. The difference factor is probably down where numbers can be played with to make it add up.
My main concern with it is that its so radical, there will be a lot of completely unforeseen consequences. For example, companies will probably no longer need to pay into unemployment insurance (yay!), but what about 501K's? If you get rid of SS, you'll still have to take in its taxes to make the revenue balance work. But will those still come solely from employers? That would make no sense. So likely the tax burden will be shifted. Where's the right place to put it? Do we still want to tax work as before, or should be tax capital instead, since that's where the money will (supposedly) increasingly be?
For that reason, I'd really like to see some smaller Country implement it first, so we can get a good idea of what will happen. Any volunteers, Australia?:-)
This is demonstrably false; developed nations have much lower reproduction rates than the undeveloped nation. Once the risk of childhood mortality is eliminated, our species preferred reproductive strategy appears to be to use additional resources to improve the quality of our offspring rather than the quantity.
For the most part, all countries now have access to modern medicine, even the poorer ones with huge birth rates.
What drives population growth(/decline) is simple economics. In a poor rural society, the more hands the family has, the more farm work can be done. Often having children is their only "social security" when a person becomes too old to work.
In a modern first world economy, children are nothing but a gigantic family money sink. CNN Estimates a kid will cost you over $250,000 over 18 years in the USA now.
Terrifying in theory, but in practice anything without a unit test is broken anyhow, so it's not really so bad,
I'd kind of agree with this, except it actually happened to me in practice, and I can assure you that the thought that our unit tests were broken too (so it was actually twice-broken) was no consolation at the time. Particularly since I was at a customer site on another continent 7 time-zones away from anyone who could (twice) fix it for me...
The error messages on the other hand...
OMG yes. At least up until C++11 *, "error novels" from nested templates was the single worst problem with the language. There are several Boost features I refuse to use to this day, after spending more than a week trying to get simple example programs to instantiate. If there's a compiler out there smart enough with its error reporting to make 3+ nested templates usable, it isn't any of the ones I've used.
* - I say "until C++11" because I haven't had a chance to fully grok the sheer horror of all the new 11 and beyond features yet. In particular, large nested inline lambdas seem to hold great promise in perhaps dethroning the embedded template error novel.
I am going to laugh my a$$ off if this ends up becoming another Dewey vs Truman statement
According to 538 (who unlike you and me and most of the press are experts at analyzing polling), you have roughly a 15% chance (as of this writing) of getting that laugh. Not where I'd place a bet, but likely enough that you should probably lay in for some spare a$$es just in case.
It's good to see the NSA step up to patriotically ensure Hillary's ascendancy to the throne
Wikileaks right now is acting as an undiscerning distribution point for documents provided to them by foreign-state hackers. These aren't "leaks", and the targets are private US citizens. If some fake material is included, we have no way of knowing that, and the hackers have plenty of opportunity, capability, and motivation to spread fake info. There's at least one case where the widely-reported info was not in the actual emails, and several where the targets have disputed the contents.
There is a term for doing this to a foreign country: Information Warfare.
Information warfare (IW) is a concept involving the use and management of information and communication technology in pursuit of a competitive advantage over an opponent. Information warfare may involve collection of tactical information, assurance(s) that one's own information is valid, spreading of propaganda or disinformation to demoralize or manipulate[citation needed] the enemy and the public, undermining the quality of opposing force information and denial of information-collection opportunities to opposing forces. Information warfare is closely linked to psychological warfare.
I don't care which candidate they are concentrating on. They could be doing this only to Trump instead of Clinton, and it wouldn't matter to me. Targeting our election like this is an attack on the USA, and it is our government's job to respond. Just sitting back and letting them destabilize our Democracy is for chumps. Shutting down their outlet is the bare minimum they should be doing. Hopefully there's more to come.
Forcing projects to C avoids possible bugs and unreadable code from cowboy programmers on your team using some of the more esoteric features of C++.
C++ does indeed have a nasty propensity to feature bloat. However, this cure is as bad as the disease. C is a horrible language, and the only thing that gives C++ some small modicum of safety and appropriateness for large-scale programming is the stuff it added. If you don't like that stuff about C++, you should probably just be using a better language instead, like Ada or (if appropriate for the domain) Java.
Depends on the compiler, of course, but the STL isn't some runtime library, it's a set of templates, which means only bits you use get compiled. Strings and vectors tend to be reasonably lightweight.
This. Little-known fact: You can actually have flat out SYNTAX ERRORS in a template, and nobody ever know until the day some poor bastard actually tries to *use* that particular implementation of that template. Otherwise (VC++ at least) will just make sure the curly-braces match, and then goes on its merry way.
Bernie won the primary by 51% total in all of the states that have a paper trail
???
Sanders actually did best in the Caucus states. In other words, precisely those states where there was no secret ballot, and its possible to strongarm and intimidate voters, and where the fewest % of the population actually votes, so fraud could be most effective.
In primary states with a huge number of voters (eg: Florida, Texas, Ohio, Georgia, California) he got waxed (25, 22, 10, 8, 7 points respectively)
If I were to suspect fraud based on the numbers, I'd suspect it of the Sanders camp. More neutrally, its pretty clear, no matter how popular the guy was online, real live Democratic voters preferred Hillary.
The content was all taken directly from the linked site: Casebrief.com's Constitutional Law blog. If you think they got something wrong, take it up with them. But from my perspective they are a far better source for information about Constitutional Law and how it is typically interpreted than you are.
There's an easy one. Take down the childporn. That isn't covered by free speech and that's been proven in courts.
So you admit there are limits. That's a great start! But let's get a little more specific about what they are. The First Amendment speech protections do not apply to
private entities, or any social-media spaces they might choose to run. eg: Twitter.
"fighting words" - These are words which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace. In online terms, this is Trolling.
defamation. For people who are "Public officers" or "Public figures" you get a bit more leeway here, bet even there not if it was made with malice. Pretty much everything Milo posts falls under this.
invasion of privacy, if the info isn't of legitimate public concern. Doxing.
So no, this isn't about "Free Speech". This is about protecting the kinds of abusive speech that the US government has never protected.
While we're on the subject, what are David Duke, Jared Taylor and the rest of their KK buddies up to? How about the USA neo-Nazi movement? Are they looking to buy a strip mall somewhere? How about the Bundy clan? Are they looking to build a new outhouse at their compound? Does Dylan Roof have a special someone he is prison pen-pals with now?
I'm really, really not down with/. reporting on hate group leaders like they are the Kardashians.
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They don't share their methods. They say to try to keep anyone from gaming the results, but ...
Huh? You got a source for this? Looks like nonsense, but perhaps I'm just misunderstanding.
Their "methods" are that they mail out a survey to their subscribers every year, and compile the results. They are weighted by the kind of problem reported (as they mentioned in the FAQ). They state all this quite clearly in each April auto issue.
I'm not real sure how anybody could "game" that, since there's nothing you could do to erase the reports of actual problems (aside from design your car better). I suppose you could buy a bunch of CR subscriptions and reports tons of fake problems with your competitor's cars to raise the tide a bit, but there are rather a lot of competitors out there.
If you want the exact weighting matrix they use, I'd ask why? It would be useless to you without their raw data as well.
I can predict Egyptian and Russian human rights trials with 100% accuracy with a simple shell script.
echo "Guilty!"
There is something to be said about mindless channel surfing... that is one thing about streaming services that I miss.... But not so much that I would go back to it.
Actually, I've spent many an evening browsing through the Netflix or HBO streaming selections without actually watching anything.
Not *everywhere*, but its always with me at work (I take notes on it), and its always with me at home. I also bring it with me to Church, because its far easier than lugging an entire Bible around. If I'm going somewhere that is likely to have wifi (eg: restaurant) I'll bring it with me.
If it could actually get network access *everywhere*, its quite likely I would. (I've tried BT phone tethering, but for some reason it worked once and I haven't been able to get it to work since). I spent the last several decades lugging a paper planner with me everywhere (typically in a backpack) before I switched to Android with Evernote, so it wouldn't be anything I'm not used to.
What I'd really like is to go to a display-less core unit that does nothing but provide other personal devices a connection to the cell radio network. Then I could change "head unit" between any-sized screen device that suits my fancy. If I want to lug a notebook with me (perhaps in a backpack), that's my business. If I want something smaller that fits in a pocket and am willing to sacrifice screen size, that'd be my decision. I could even change for the task at hand.
That's one of the issues with CR's reporting. 100 people with problems with a cupholder would rate as "poor" while 2 with a blown engine would rate as "good"
Ummm...that's just not true. Its right there in their FAQ:
Are all problems considered equally serious?
Problems with the engine-major, cooling system, transmission-major, and driveline are more likely to take a car out of service and to be more expensive to repair than the other problem areas. Consequently, we weigh these areas more heavily in our calculations of Used Car Verdicts and Predicted Reliability. Problems in any area can be an expense and a bother, though, so we report them all in the Reliability History charts.
I think the main issue here is that the reliability ratings are based on survey results, which means they don't know how reliable a car is until its been out a few years. So they are mainly useful for used cars. They will still "predict" the reliability of new models, but only if they know the model hasn't changed much from last year's design. On brand new designs/redesigns they don't provide a prediction, and usually won't recommend the car either. (Which jibes with the common layman's advice to "never buy the first year of a new car").
The main issue here is it looks like they got so excited about the Tesla S, they deviated from standard policy. Whoops.
Hey man, are you on wuwu?
The only thing keeping my cable going is live sports. Particularly being able to follow my favorite EPL team streamed to my devices. NBC will stream you EVERY game the league plays to your computer or mobile device, but only if you can verify that you have a cable account. People in England don't even get that. A couple of weeks ago I had to go on a business trip, and just happened to get to watch the first half of my Spurs game while waiting for my bags and in the rental car line at MIA, and again in the same situation when I landed back in TUL a few days later.
Its still pretty expensive to keep around just for that though. Probably going to get cut soon.
We've cancelled cable but last night decided to channel surf the airwaves instead of streaming something and the only thing remotely watchable was Lucifer on Fox. Everything else was dancing or singing competitions. The traditional stations don't appear to be even trying to make anything good.
The thing about those reality shows is that they are really cheap to make. What this is telling you is that the networks have given up on producing anything meaningful, and are just trying not to lose money.
I've found on business trips that the only channel that *ever* has anything interesting on is SyFy, but that's hit-or-miss.
The thing I found really telling was that Supergirl got moved from CBS to CW, and everyone associated with the show was happy about it. That's pretty damning. On CBS its average viewer age was over 55, and that was good enough to make it CBS's youngest demoed show. Think about that one for a minute. If you're watching a network show, this is who is in the audience with you.
Couldn't really disagree more with this. Its a lifesaver (perhaps literally) when I'm driving and I get a phone call. Its also damn useful in meetings, so I'm not *that guy* constantly dragging his phone out while someone else is talking.
The size of my Pebble is no different than a normal watch (actually many men's watchfaces are bigger, probably to help the wearers overcompensate, but I wouldn't buy one of those). Its battery life is about a week with the face I use, but realistically I just put it on the charger whenever I shower, and never have to think about it.
Also, it automatically adjusts for both daylight savings time and its own drift. That alone makes it the best watch I've ever owned even if I turned all notifications off. No more digging out the manual twice a year to figure out which tiny buttons to press in which sequence to reset the damn thing.
Additionally, I can change the face whenever the mood strikes me, and I effectively have a whole different watch on my arm.
If you're a person who grew up not wearing watches, I could see where you might not see the need. But for me, it would be actively stupid to go back to a normal watch.
If anything, what I'd like to do is get rid of the damn phone's display. The watch can tell me who is calling or texting, my BT headset can be used to accept calls, and for anything I need a bigger screen for my tablet would be far nicer than some tiny phone screen (even at 7+).
If there's a reason smartwatch sales are declining, its more likely just that everyone who wants one already has one. I used my last Pebble until it quit working, and will likely do the same with this one.
Let's see...users are willing to fork out a few hundred dollars every few years for the latest tech trinket, yet they want all their software for free.
I'd like all my hardware for free too. If hardware was free to make copies of, I'm sure it would be in the same boat. This is what economists call being a rational actor. If I don't want to fork out $10 for something, then clearly having it is not worth $10 to me. This is just basic economics. Arguing against it is no more sensible than raging against the incoming tide.
If NBC was making Jessica Jones and Luke Cage (exactly as they are now) and syndicating them to Netflix, then Netflix's syndicated shows would be far better than their original content. Those shows are just that freaking awesome.
A more interesting story would be to get into why the best stuff on "television" right now is being produced by Netflix and HBO, rather than the traditional TV networks and movie studios.
I'm old enough to remember when Bush beat Gore, but he didn't really because it was a big conspiracy to stop recounts in FL and Nader "stole" his votes. And then Bush beat Kerry, but he didn't really because of unfair lies spread by outside groups. And then Obama beat two different Republicans, but he didn't really because there was "massive voter fraud". And now Hillary looks likely to beat Trump, but not really because the election is being stolen.
I know this is an unfashionable opinion these days, but it IS actually possible one side lose an election fair and square. If you don't like that happening to you, be better next time.
Perhaps. But as a 5-year Samsung user, I can tell you that Samsung isn't there. I'm a little there with Android, but I could care less about any one particular Android vendor.
Providing UBI for this many people will cost the economy 4.8 Trillion Dollars. Where is this going to come from?
The US Treasury last year spent 1.4 Trillion on Social Security, Unemployment, and Labor last year, all of which theoretically would be replaced by UBI. So UBI by your numbers may be more than that, but its certainly in the ballpark. The difference factor is probably down where numbers can be played with to make it add up.
My main concern with it is that its so radical, there will be a lot of completely unforeseen consequences. For example, companies will probably no longer need to pay into unemployment insurance (yay!), but what about 501K's? If you get rid of SS, you'll still have to take in its taxes to make the revenue balance work. But will those still come solely from employers? That would make no sense. So likely the tax burden will be shifted. Where's the right place to put it? Do we still want to tax work as before, or should be tax capital instead, since that's where the money will (supposedly) increasingly be?
For that reason, I'd really like to see some smaller Country implement it first, so we can get a good idea of what will happen. Any volunteers, Australia? :-)
This is demonstrably false; developed nations have much lower reproduction rates than the undeveloped nation. Once the risk of childhood mortality is eliminated, our species preferred reproductive strategy appears to be to use additional resources to improve the quality of our offspring rather than the quantity.
For the most part, all countries now have access to modern medicine, even the poorer ones with huge birth rates.
What drives population growth(/decline) is simple economics. In a poor rural society, the more hands the family has, the more farm work can be done. Often having children is their only "social security" when a person becomes too old to work.
In a modern first world economy, children are nothing but a gigantic family money sink. CNN Estimates a kid will cost you over $250,000 over 18 years in the USA now.
Uh, Bernie was pushing Socialism hard and were it not for the actual Democratic primary voters he would now be the candidate of the Democratic party
FTFY
Terrifying in theory, but in practice anything without a unit test is broken anyhow, so it's not really so bad,
I'd kind of agree with this, except it actually happened to me in practice, and I can assure you that the thought that our unit tests were broken too (so it was actually twice-broken) was no consolation at the time. Particularly since I was at a customer site on another continent 7 time-zones away from anyone who could (twice) fix it for me...
The error messages on the other hand ...
OMG yes. At least up until C++11 *, "error novels" from nested templates was the single worst problem with the language. There are several Boost features I refuse to use to this day, after spending more than a week trying to get simple example programs to instantiate. If there's a compiler out there smart enough with its error reporting to make 3+ nested templates usable, it isn't any of the ones I've used.
* - I say "until C++11" because I haven't had a chance to fully grok the sheer horror of all the new 11 and beyond features yet. In particular, large nested inline lambdas seem to hold great promise in perhaps dethroning the embedded template error novel.
I am going to laugh my a$$ off if this ends up becoming another Dewey vs Truman statement
According to 538 (who unlike you and me and most of the press are experts at analyzing polling), you have roughly a 15% chance (as of this writing) of getting that laugh. Not where I'd place a bet, but likely enough that you should probably lay in for some spare a$$es just in case.
It's good to see the NSA step up to patriotically ensure Hillary's ascendancy to the throne
Wikileaks right now is acting as an undiscerning distribution point for documents provided to them by foreign-state hackers. These aren't "leaks", and the targets are private US citizens. If some fake material is included, we have no way of knowing that, and the hackers have plenty of opportunity, capability, and motivation to spread fake info. There's at least one case where the widely-reported info was not in the actual emails, and several where the targets have disputed the contents.
There is a term for doing this to a foreign country: Information Warfare.
Information warfare (IW) is a concept involving the use and management of information and communication technology in pursuit of a competitive advantage over an opponent. Information warfare may involve collection of tactical information, assurance(s) that one's own information is valid, spreading of propaganda or disinformation to demoralize or manipulate[citation needed] the enemy and the public, undermining the quality of opposing force information and denial of information-collection opportunities to opposing forces. Information warfare is closely linked to psychological warfare.
I don't care which candidate they are concentrating on. They could be doing this only to Trump instead of Clinton, and it wouldn't matter to me. Targeting our election like this is an attack on the USA, and it is our government's job to respond. Just sitting back and letting them destabilize our Democracy is for chumps. Shutting down their outlet is the bare minimum they should be doing. Hopefully there's more to come.
Forcing projects to C avoids possible bugs and unreadable code from cowboy programmers on your team using some of the more esoteric features of C++.
C++ does indeed have a nasty propensity to feature bloat. However, this cure is as bad as the disease. C is a horrible language, and the only thing that gives C++ some small modicum of safety and appropriateness for large-scale programming is the stuff it added. If you don't like that stuff about C++, you should probably just be using a better language instead, like Ada or (if appropriate for the domain) Java.
Depends on the compiler, of course, but the STL isn't some runtime library, it's a set of templates, which means only bits you use get compiled. Strings and vectors tend to be reasonably lightweight.
This. Little-known fact: You can actually have flat out SYNTAX ERRORS in a template, and nobody ever know until the day some poor bastard actually tries to *use* that particular implementation of that template. Otherwise (VC++ at least) will just make sure the curly-braces match, and then goes on its merry way.
Bernie won the primary by 51% total in all of the states that have a paper trail
???
Sanders actually did best in the Caucus states. In other words, precisely those states where there was no secret ballot, and its possible to strongarm and intimidate voters, and where the fewest % of the population actually votes, so fraud could be most effective.
In primary states with a huge number of voters (eg: Florida, Texas, Ohio, Georgia, California) he got waxed (25, 22, 10, 8, 7 points respectively)
If I were to suspect fraud based on the numbers, I'd suspect it of the Sanders camp. More neutrally, its pretty clear, no matter how popular the guy was online, real live Democratic voters preferred Hillary.
The content was all taken directly from the linked site: Casebrief.com's Constitutional Law blog. If you think they got something wrong, take it up with them. But from my perspective they are a far better source for information about Constitutional Law and how it is typically interpreted than you are.
There's an easy one. Take down the childporn. That isn't covered by free speech and that's been proven in courts.
So you admit there are limits. That's a great start! But let's get a little more specific about what they are. The First Amendment speech protections do not apply to
So no, this isn't about "Free Speech". This is about protecting the kinds of abusive speech that the US government has never protected.
While we're on the subject, what are David Duke, Jared Taylor and the rest of their KK buddies up to? How about the USA neo-Nazi movement? Are they looking to buy a strip mall somewhere? How about the Bundy clan? Are they looking to build a new outhouse at their compound? Does Dylan Roof have a special someone he is prison pen-pals with now?
I'm really, really not down with /. reporting on hate group leaders like they are the Kardashians.