No one needs a $45 alternative to the same cable programming you can get for $44 from the cable company. If Apple can't negotiate a lower cost deal that's more customer-friendly, then there's no point in offering that content at all. It's too bad they didn't succeed. But Sling and PlayStation have less expensive OTT bundles already, and there are surely more coming.
I can predict he'll start isolationist trade policies
Which is just a lot of talk and not much else. A president isn't a king. He has to follow the law. Especially Trump, because he won't have allies in the press actively hiding information that might be bad for his administration.
that he'll prefer Putin to our historic allies
Like the current President prefers Iran over Israel and Cuba over the UK. But, again, mostly talk.
that he'll poison our relationship with Mexico
Our relationship with Mexico is valuable to Mexico. How valuable is it to us? Since Mexico has less to offer than the benefit they receive from our "relationship", they're hardly in a position to hold a grudge over some meaningless talk and the US deciding to secure the border.
that he'll cause a crazy debt default incident
Good. The last one of those helped slow down runaway spending. It was the end of the world for about a week though. I'm sure there will be a lot of pearl-clutching and dramatic gasping and head-shaking by people who think it makes them superior to the rest of us.
Is that sufficent?
I'm not panicked yet. Keep telling your stories though. It's fun to tell stories.
Vote for being told what's going on rather than having it hidden. What "stuff" are you predicting? It's safe to predict Clinton scandals based on history. And you can predict Trump will say stuff people will complain about. What else?
I'm tempted to grant you your wish to live under a Trump Presidency, where anyone who dares ask questions is told to shut up...or else! The only thing that is pulling me back from granting your your wish for this hell on earth is that all the rest of us would have to suffer right along with you
Why would it matter? The government seems to do almost the same thing regardless of who gets elected. Not much really changes. The other side always goes nuts and says the world's going to end if the latest Hitler (all Republicans) or Stalin (all Democrats) gets elected. The world never ends though.
How else are we going to find out what people in our government are doing? Wait for the press to tell us?
If you want the press to uncover -- instead of helping cover up -- what the government is doing, you should support Trump for President. The press will actually investigate and report on a Trump Administration.
So what? The message here is "Trump" -- ethics and competence don't matter because "Trump". Get used to it. "Trump" is the new all purpose justification for anything they want to do (or did in the past), regardless of ethics or laws or anything else.
Because the press always lets her. Because anyone else would be gone after one or 2 times, but the Clintons keep getting a pass for scandal after scandal after scandal, always ensuring there will be yet another scandal in the seemingly endless list. Because the Democrats across the country lost so many elections in the past few years that there's no one else in the party with national stature who can mount a successful campaign. Because calling the other side "racist" is seen as an acceptable substitute for acting ethically or having any sort of thoughts on policy.
Intel has been trying this for many years. They never succeed because Intel is trying to make chips so Intel can sell chips for phones and tablets. Intel is Intel-focused. If they focused on making chips to solve problems for customers, they might be more successful.
Microsoft has the same problem. Windows 8 and Xbox One were very obviously Microsoft-focused products -- customers didn't want tiles or Kinect or HDMI input.
Memo to Intel and Microsoft: don't make stuff you want to sell, make stuff people want to buy.
People that can't be trusted to make choices for themselves become instantly perfect at making choices for everyone the day they are installed in a bureaucracy. Didn't you know that?
But storytellers are telling each other scary stories. Scary stories are better guidance than history, aren't they? It'll be different this time, won't it?
I think you mean Ben Kingsley. Gandhi actually believed in things. Hillary can usually succeed at reciting words from a script, like an actor playing a role. You like the way her character's lines are written better than Trump's.
...what the Republican party has been up to for the last 5 years!
What did the Republican Party do in the last 5 years? I literally can't think of a single thing they accomplished or any change the Republican Party made to anything during that time.
Are you just complaining about "talk" you don't like? If so, then stop listening -- your life will improve.
Slashdot Mirror
No one needs a $45 alternative to the same cable programming you can get for $44 from the cable company. If Apple can't negotiate a lower cost deal that's more customer-friendly, then there's no point in offering that content at all. It's too bad they didn't succeed. But Sling and PlayStation have less expensive OTT bundles already, and there are surely more coming.
Well, for one thing, I can still openly say precisely what I think of our leaders in Washington without fear that I might face retribution.
Like Catherine Englebrecht thought she could?
I can predict he'll start isolationist trade policies
Which is just a lot of talk and not much else. A president isn't a king. He has to follow the law. Especially Trump, because he won't have allies in the press actively hiding information that might be bad for his administration.
that he'll prefer Putin to our historic allies
Like the current President prefers Iran over Israel and Cuba over the UK. But, again, mostly talk.
that he'll poison our relationship with Mexico
Our relationship with Mexico is valuable to Mexico. How valuable is it to us? Since Mexico has less to offer than the benefit they receive from our "relationship", they're hardly in a position to hold a grudge over some meaningless talk and the US deciding to secure the border.
that he'll cause a crazy debt default incident
Good. The last one of those helped slow down runaway spending. It was the end of the world for about a week though. I'm sure there will be a lot of pearl-clutching and dramatic gasping and head-shaking by people who think it makes them superior to the rest of us.
Is that sufficent?
I'm not panicked yet. Keep telling your stories though. It's fun to tell stories.
Vote for being told what's going on rather than having it hidden. What "stuff" are you predicting? It's safe to predict Clinton scandals based on history. And you can predict Trump will say stuff people will complain about. What else?
I'm tempted to grant you your wish to live under a Trump Presidency, where anyone who dares ask questions is told to shut up...or else! The only thing that is pulling me back from granting your your wish for this hell on earth is that all the rest of us would have to suffer right along with you
Why would it matter? The government seems to do almost the same thing regardless of who gets elected. Not much really changes. The other side always goes nuts and says the world's going to end if the latest Hitler (all Republicans) or Stalin (all Democrats) gets elected. The world never ends though.
Are you saying all those people owe Romney and the American people a sincere apology?
Speaking of press conferences, Hillary hasn't had a press conference the entire year of 2016.
Russian leadership is exactly the same now as it was in 2012 when it was ridiculous to worry about them.
So? Do you want an independent press or don't you?
They told us it was ridiculous to worry about Russia when Romney warned us about them.
Are you being ridiculous? What's today's official groupthink? Are we at war with Eastasia?
How else are we going to find out what people in our government are doing? Wait for the press to tell us?
If you want the press to uncover -- instead of helping cover up -- what the government is doing, you should support Trump for President. The press will actually investigate and report on a Trump Administration.
So what? The message here is "Trump" -- ethics and competence don't matter because "Trump". Get used to it. "Trump" is the new all purpose justification for anything they want to do (or did in the past), regardless of ethics or laws or anything else.
Because the press always lets her. Because anyone else would be gone after one or 2 times, but the Clintons keep getting a pass for scandal after scandal after scandal, always ensuring there will be yet another scandal in the seemingly endless list. Because the Democrats across the country lost so many elections in the past few years that there's no one else in the party with national stature who can mount a successful campaign. Because calling the other side "racist" is seen as an acceptable substitute for acting ethically or having any sort of thoughts on policy.
Liberal: "I want someone who'll fight for me"
...fight for me, against my neighbors and fellow Americans, over money someone else earned.
Making x86 chips for mobile instead of what customers want is exactly Intel being Intel-focused rather than customer-focused.
Intel has been trying this for many years. They never succeed because Intel is trying to make chips so Intel can sell chips for phones and tablets. Intel is Intel-focused. If they focused on making chips to solve problems for customers, they might be more successful.
Microsoft has the same problem. Windows 8 and Xbox One were very obviously Microsoft-focused products -- customers didn't want tiles or Kinect or HDMI input.
Memo to Intel and Microsoft: don't make stuff you want to sell, make stuff people want to buy.
The AIs took it. They're going to kill us all the day automation takes away 90% of the jobs.
Yore
People that can't be trusted to make choices for themselves become instantly perfect at making choices for everyone the day they are installed in a bureaucracy. Didn't you know that?
But storytellers are telling each other scary stories. Scary stories are better guidance than history, aren't they? It'll be different this time, won't it?
I think you mean Ben Kingsley. Gandhi actually believed in things. Hillary can usually succeed at reciting words from a script, like an actor playing a role. You like the way her character's lines are written better than Trump's.
I can't think of any other reason someone in his position would support the Republican Party.
Republicans are probably a lot nicer to him than Democrats. Would Democrats invite him to speak at their convention?
He also has a long history of supporting free speech and opposing speech codes and criminalization of speech as "hate speech". Just this week Hillary announced her support for a constitutional amendment repealing free speech for specific people.
Before you post about your failure to think of things, maybe try a little harder.
The majority of people are dead.
That explains the exclamation point then. He must really hate bison.
...what the Republican party has been up to for the last 5 years!
What did the Republican Party do in the last 5 years? I literally can't think of a single thing they accomplished or any change the Republican Party made to anything during that time.
Are you just complaining about "talk" you don't like? If so, then stop listening -- your life will improve.