And what is the country's reaction? They put a multimillionaire into the White House who plants other multimillionaires into cabinet positions for the sole purpose of this group to change laws and regulations so that they and their cronies can make more millions. Is anyone still so naive to think that these children will get proper housing, their parents find jobs that generate an income that secures their outcome, and that the rich stop getting richer while the poor get prison (with more and more prisons under private operation generating millions for companies there is a necessity to generate need for more convicts). And for good measure, lets remove any and all restrictions on guns so that the rich can make sure things go their way. Don't like any of that? Well, you got your chance in November and you all blew it.
That puppy costs 499$, While the specs are not bad, they are not that great either at that price point given that the system is nothing more than a browser on steroids.
The pages these days are full with junk from a gazillion sources. Even this page pulls content from EIGHTEEN different sites, about half are just trackers and ad services. The insane overhead that HTTP brings with it gets grown massively by having to make all these connections to all the sites. It gets even worse, when scripts pull from various sources as blocking calls. If this this page came from one site it would be much faster.
As far as tab content goes, I don't have any issues using Pale Moon. What bites is when having pinned tabs or default pages in place. Upon browser start those are loaded up into memory and depending on how the site set the expiration on content new files are pulled rather than using files from local cache.
Comparing with opening an image from disk is not apples to apples. The image is already in a displayable format while HTML/CSS/JS first have to be interpreted and then rendered. There is a heck of a lot more to do there.
Not every precinct has the same number of voters. Likewise, it takes way less votes in Montana to send a rep to the EC than in New York. What kind of whacked anti-democracy is that?
Trump declared that climate change is a hoax from Gina (as Trump pronounces it. like vagina just without the va). After making that up there is no need for any hard researched facts. Trump rejects reality and substitutes his own...especially when it makes a lot of money....unless of course the opposite is the better option, then he flip flops on what he said yesterday.
It appears as that there are way more places with lead in the water than Flint, otherwise there is no explanation for that many ridiculously....oh, sorry, rediculously stupid people who voted for Trump. And lastly, a shoutout to Putin for effectively destabilizing the US, nicely done!
How many motherboards, routers, webcams, and other devices did I go through that stopped working after applying a firmware update following the instructions given by the manufacturer? I stopped counting. Worse even, once updated all configurations are reset to factory default and I had to either restore the settings if there was a means to back them up or redo everything from scratch. Who the f*ck has time for this? If manufacturers would make updating easy and failsafe the number of folks applying the upgrades would be much higher.
The issue is, that I cannot 3D print a working 4TB SATA hard drive and even if, it will be much more expensive than buying one already made. If they would have found out a way to 3D print a girlfriend the nerds would have been all over it.
I work and worked in places where they had EIPs and despite quite many proceeding through such "plan" not a single employee came out with any improvement aside from a three month grace period for looking for a new job. The managers really do not have a plan because they already decided to plan differently.
Amazon is surely not the only place that consider employees "human capital" that is freely replaceable.
The whole idea of ITV is to draw down cost, but in the end it cost exactly the same as the CTV package while being less convenient. Unless you happen to have that old Firefly remote hanging around.
The cost comes at a price, we still get to endure the commercials. Commercial free for 150$ total (and without these made up fees) and no restrictions or limitations with a decent lineup and including at least 75 symmetric and worldwide unlimited calling...now we got something. Won't happen....
The pricing is totally off. I looked into cable cutting and in the end I can save about 15$, but have to juggle between ITV, rabbit ears (none of these fine services do local channels!), and 3rd party VoIP services. With ITV you still need some device strapped to your TV set, so I might as well keep that cable box.
The a la carte options are demanded by many, but cannot be delivered. Disney packages ABC and ESPN together with a dozen junk channels and the distributors either take the whole bag or nothing at all. Cutting out the junk will save you absolutely nothing.
I bite when I get the full monty for 20$ a month, but not at 35$ for the starter set.
Many states make it a crime for electors to vote for a candidate that they were not designated for. I doubt that the parties put anyone on the lists who do have not a strong attachment to the parties candidate.
The US president is elected by the states by sending representatives to the Electoral College. As to how these reps are determined is entirely and exclusively up to the states. So far, nobody has questioned the legality of the winner take all rule nor the many states that make it a crime to not vote for the candidate designated in the first round of voting. It will need challenges in each state or an act by the State Congresses to change the rules.
I'm in no way a fan of the incredibly undemocratic process of the US presidential election. Not only is the Electoral College an utterly outdated concept, its makeup is strangely lopsided. How come that a rep in Montana represents five times less voters than one from New York?n One might argue that this gives less populous states more say, but they already have that influence in the Senate. It is unfair and undemocratic to value the votes of some more than those of others.
I suggest popular vote as deciding factor. If it needs to stay with the states and the college, split the reps based on popular vote in each state and make it so that within a small margin of difference the number of reps sent equals the number of voters. Yes, that would mean e.g. that either Montana gets less or that New York gets way more reps to send.
I have my severe doubts that any of that will change. How many times did we express utter disgust about gerrymandering and other unreasonable, but legal means to disenfranchising voters? Nothing happened because no matter who gets into power, they will try to retain the status quo because it served them well. The only option I see is to systematically undermine the dominance of both the Reps and Dems and establish at least four or five other parties across the spectrum. That will end the balck/white, yes/no, with us or against us think of the de facto two party system.
....that the unsubscribes and unregisters actually work. Most of them don't or tell you that it takes them 8 - 12 days to send a query to a database. *rolleyes*
Trump will not have the chance to ask for anyone's resignation because his own party will impeach him at the earliest chance possible. They rather work with Pence and the crusty establishment. Trump already senses that and this is likely the reason why he puts all those inept and unqualified folks from the party establishment into cozy positions. So much for draining the swamp!
Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up!
The contards only need to cross out one word on their posters and signs.
"I don't see how paper is not accessible and a computer screen is. It's going to be 100 times easier to print out some braille ballots than it would be to make and upkeep electronic voting for a tiny tiny percentage of voters. The fact is electronic ballots were just a scam pushed on states to generate money. Any smart district would move back to paper and scanners."
Good points, a computer touch screen is not Braille enabled unless a special device is connected. As far as electronic voting machines goes...the manufacturers are strong supporters of the Republican party. Looks as that this symbiosis finally paid off.
The contards around Trump indeed claimed that the entire election is rigged, yet they gleefully accept the preliminary results without questioning it at all. If anything, the Trumpists should be on the forefront of recounts to stress their point. As usual, they don't give a damn about what they claimed and promised yesterday. Nothing but a bunch of opportunistic flip-floppers.
Germany has the same although more and more districts are switching to electronic devices. The draw to computer voting is a faster tally, but in an election I rather have slow, but accurate results than fast and wrong ones. Paper ballot with a pen and clearly marking the vote is the way to go. Yes, old school and expensive, but anything else is savings in the wrong spot.
It also makes sense since one of the candidates consistently claimed the election is rigged. There should be a broad willingness to conduct the necessary investigations and recounts. If the results are accurate then we know for sure, if they were rigged there is a much bigger issue than who won or not.
The left screamed it because it is the truth...just look at the growing number of xenophobic anti-Semites from the Republican establishment swamp that get big positions in the Trump administration. Hitler 2.0 indeed!
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And what is the country's reaction? They put a multimillionaire into the White House who plants other multimillionaires into cabinet positions for the sole purpose of this group to change laws and regulations so that they and their cronies can make more millions. Is anyone still so naive to think that these children will get proper housing, their parents find jobs that generate an income that secures their outcome, and that the rich stop getting richer while the poor get prison (with more and more prisons under private operation generating millions for companies there is a necessity to generate need for more convicts). And for good measure, lets remove any and all restrictions on guns so that the rich can make sure things go their way. Don't like any of that? Well, you got your chance in November and you all blew it.
That puppy costs 499$, While the specs are not bad, they are not that great either at that price point given that the system is nothing more than a browser on steroids.
The pages these days are full with junk from a gazillion sources. Even this page pulls content from EIGHTEEN different sites, about half are just trackers and ad services. The insane overhead that HTTP brings with it gets grown massively by having to make all these connections to all the sites. It gets even worse, when scripts pull from various sources as blocking calls. If this this page came from one site it would be much faster. As far as tab content goes, I don't have any issues using Pale Moon. What bites is when having pinned tabs or default pages in place. Upon browser start those are loaded up into memory and depending on how the site set the expiration on content new files are pulled rather than using files from local cache. Comparing with opening an image from disk is not apples to apples. The image is already in a displayable format while HTML/CSS/JS first have to be interpreted and then rendered. There is a heck of a lot more to do there.
Not every precinct has the same number of voters. Likewise, it takes way less votes in Montana to send a rep to the EC than in New York. What kind of whacked anti-democracy is that?
I agree, Clinton sucks, but Trump IS Hitler 2.0.
Trump declared that climate change is a hoax from Gina (as Trump pronounces it. like vagina just without the va). After making that up there is no need for any hard researched facts. Trump rejects reality and substitutes his own...especially when it makes a lot of money....unless of course the opposite is the better option, then he flip flops on what he said yesterday. It appears as that there are way more places with lead in the water than Flint, otherwise there is no explanation for that many ridiculously....oh, sorry, rediculously stupid people who voted for Trump. And lastly, a shoutout to Putin for effectively destabilizing the US, nicely done!
How many motherboards, routers, webcams, and other devices did I go through that stopped working after applying a firmware update following the instructions given by the manufacturer? I stopped counting. Worse even, once updated all configurations are reset to factory default and I had to either restore the settings if there was a means to back them up or redo everything from scratch. Who the f*ck has time for this? If manufacturers would make updating easy and failsafe the number of folks applying the upgrades would be much higher.
The issue is, that I cannot 3D print a working 4TB SATA hard drive and even if, it will be much more expensive than buying one already made. If they would have found out a way to 3D print a girlfriend the nerds would have been all over it.
Those poor naive folks! Since when does Microsoft under Nutella have a strategy?
I work and worked in places where they had EIPs and despite quite many proceeding through such "plan" not a single employee came out with any improvement aside from a three month grace period for looking for a new job. The managers really do not have a plan because they already decided to plan differently. Amazon is surely not the only place that consider employees "human capital" that is freely replaceable.
The whole idea of ITV is to draw down cost, but in the end it cost exactly the same as the CTV package while being less convenient. Unless you happen to have that old Firefly remote hanging around. The cost comes at a price, we still get to endure the commercials. Commercial free for 150$ total (and without these made up fees) and no restrictions or limitations with a decent lineup and including at least 75 symmetric and worldwide unlimited calling...now we got something. Won't happen....
Like Netflix ...while cutting back offerings.
The pricing is totally off. I looked into cable cutting and in the end I can save about 15$, but have to juggle between ITV, rabbit ears (none of these fine services do local channels!), and 3rd party VoIP services. With ITV you still need some device strapped to your TV set, so I might as well keep that cable box. The a la carte options are demanded by many, but cannot be delivered. Disney packages ABC and ESPN together with a dozen junk channels and the distributors either take the whole bag or nothing at all. Cutting out the junk will save you absolutely nothing. I bite when I get the full monty for 20$ a month, but not at 35$ for the starter set.
Many states make it a crime for electors to vote for a candidate that they were not designated for. I doubt that the parties put anyone on the lists who do have not a strong attachment to the parties candidate.
Supreme Court Justices often are political activists.Several of them think we still live in the 1800s and that nothing since then has changed.
The US president is elected by the states by sending representatives to the Electoral College. As to how these reps are determined is entirely and exclusively up to the states. So far, nobody has questioned the legality of the winner take all rule nor the many states that make it a crime to not vote for the candidate designated in the first round of voting. It will need challenges in each state or an act by the State Congresses to change the rules. I'm in no way a fan of the incredibly undemocratic process of the US presidential election. Not only is the Electoral College an utterly outdated concept, its makeup is strangely lopsided. How come that a rep in Montana represents five times less voters than one from New York?n One might argue that this gives less populous states more say, but they already have that influence in the Senate. It is unfair and undemocratic to value the votes of some more than those of others. I suggest popular vote as deciding factor. If it needs to stay with the states and the college, split the reps based on popular vote in each state and make it so that within a small margin of difference the number of reps sent equals the number of voters. Yes, that would mean e.g. that either Montana gets less or that New York gets way more reps to send. I have my severe doubts that any of that will change. How many times did we express utter disgust about gerrymandering and other unreasonable, but legal means to disenfranchising voters? Nothing happened because no matter who gets into power, they will try to retain the status quo because it served them well. The only option I see is to systematically undermine the dominance of both the Reps and Dems and establish at least four or five other parties across the spectrum. That will end the balck/white, yes/no, with us or against us think of the de facto two party system.
....that the unsubscribes and unregisters actually work. Most of them don't or tell you that it takes them 8 - 12 days to send a query to a database. *rolleyes*
Trump will not have the chance to ask for anyone's resignation because his own party will impeach him at the earliest chance possible. They rather work with Pence and the crusty establishment. Trump already senses that and this is likely the reason why he puts all those inept and unqualified folks from the party establishment into cozy positions. So much for draining the swamp!
Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! The contards only need to cross out one word on their posters and signs.
"I don't see how paper is not accessible and a computer screen is. It's going to be 100 times easier to print out some braille ballots than it would be to make and upkeep electronic voting for a tiny tiny percentage of voters. The fact is electronic ballots were just a scam pushed on states to generate money. Any smart district would move back to paper and scanners." Good points, a computer touch screen is not Braille enabled unless a special device is connected. As far as electronic voting machines goes...the manufacturers are strong supporters of the Republican party. Looks as that this symbiosis finally paid off.
The contards around Trump indeed claimed that the entire election is rigged, yet they gleefully accept the preliminary results without questioning it at all. If anything, the Trumpists should be on the forefront of recounts to stress their point. As usual, they don't give a damn about what they claimed and promised yesterday. Nothing but a bunch of opportunistic flip-floppers.
Germany has the same although more and more districts are switching to electronic devices. The draw to computer voting is a faster tally, but in an election I rather have slow, but accurate results than fast and wrong ones. Paper ballot with a pen and clearly marking the vote is the way to go. Yes, old school and expensive, but anything else is savings in the wrong spot.
It also makes sense since one of the candidates consistently claimed the election is rigged. There should be a broad willingness to conduct the necessary investigations and recounts. If the results are accurate then we know for sure, if they were rigged there is a much bigger issue than who won or not.
The left screamed it because it is the truth...just look at the growing number of xenophobic anti-Semites from the Republican establishment swamp that get big positions in the Trump administration. Hitler 2.0 indeed!
Nah, his foundation will take care of that. It bailed him out multiple times.