Long version: I find him reprehensible, and find his positions stupid and indefensible, because I'm, I guess, a liberal or leftie or maybe even progressive. According to a number of posts here, I, as a liberal, am supposed to want Trump to be silenced. I do not. Political candidates, no matter how much I don't like them, get, and should get, a podium. Freedom of the news and freedom of speech are more sacred than my desire not to be offended or annoyed.
Amplifying that, I suspect that the desire to not have to be exposed to the likes of DT is more dangerous than DT itself. I am very worried by people on whatever side of whatever issue, who wish to simply silence their opposition. Both sides of an issue frequently have a view the other side should listen to carefully, and not dismiss casually.
And yet, it is business as usual to post hoc classify data already in the public domain.
Regardless, had Hillary published the "classified" contents of said emails in a full page ad in a daily, it would have been more secure than had it been sitting in a government server.
This whole non-story is a made up non-issue served up by hypocritical entities that want us to believe (for a brief moment) that government servers are secure like the uber machines in movie spy fictions (in contrast to Hillary's servers) while in fact those entities themselves have no faith in the gummint's ability to do anything well. Were it not for the opportunity to skewer Hillary, they would otherwise have lauded Hillary's selection of private enterprise services.
When industries are pushed to do something for the public, they make scary noises like this. They fill the air with FUD and we are to to believe that the internet providers will all be driven out of business.
The auto industry, when asked to install seat belts and basic safety items, said it would be near impossible and ruinously expensive. A few years later, miraculously it all worked fine. Dirt cheap and easy.
The ISPs are no different. They'll have to install better connections eventually. The world demands data.
I have a friend who truly is out in the sticks, and he cannot get usable internet at all. Literally, nothing. He has crappy copper wires, a crappy little local phone company / ISP with legendarily bad service. They'd be better put out of business but instead there's no effective pressure to make them improve.
I couldn't give a hoot if we had either effective monopoly regulation, or truly effective competition, but we have neither. We have ineffective monopolies, crappy service, no power to effect change, high rates and lousy service.
The underlying theory behind insurance is to spread risk as broadly as possible to reduce the cost of being protected. Insurance companies discovered that they can select small low risk slices of the market and treat them preferentially. The result is a myriad of little groups all of whom pay too much, since small groups cannot effectively spread risk very far.
The insurance companies have ruined the great benefit of insurance for the insureds, and have substituted great benefit for themselves.
Give me the chance to see a movie in the regular 2d mode, and I'll go for that every time. 3d is lousy, and I just say no to it. Not about the surcharge, just that it detracts from the quality of movie watching every time.
I'd never even think of clicking on something with a name remotely like "adfly". Are you kidding!
Names like that lead, at best. to clickbait crap. Funny, so many scummy enterprises have urls that are like the bright coloration on the most toxic critters, a warning of the perils of proximity.
Not only will it come back to bite utilities, but as energy costs rise, it will come back to bite short sighted utility commissions, politicians with their heads in the sand about energy and carbon and climate, and phony "news" sources proclaiming same too. too.
Please Canonical, please release this tablet worldwide. Please don't exclude important markets like was done with the phones. It is frustrating to have Linux phones only partially available (not full functioned in US). I am dying to use Linux for all my computing needs.
And all those volcanoes just happened to start really acting up at the start of the industrial revolution, thus explaining climatic change without implicating human activity...
The way I see it Gimp and PS both have awful interfaces and are both a handful to learn. But, photoshop has a larger and more professional set of tutorials from outside the project, like videos on youtube etc. Gimp suffers from having fewer tutorials and a generally lower quality level. The two are similar enough though that I just look for the best tutorial for my needs, from either program, and then figure out how to adapt the results to what I'm using.
While there are thoughtful libertarians who I would welcome as new neighbors, there are too many who seem to act upon an overly simplistic and near absolute belief in individualism. I'm in NO way in love with "collective" this or that, and wish libertarian notions were more workable, but I just don't see it.
I live in NH. I am not looking forward to the possibility of libertarian migration.
'...In general, the rule of thumb in Scandinavia is: "If you have to pay in cash, something is wrong."...'
I sort of get this, the idea that if you have nothing to hide, then who cares if your transactions leave a trail, but if the Swedes really want to get rid of cash, then, A. Stop printing it, and, B ban all transactions using cash.
But I wonder about folks who do no wrong but simply want to live their lives privately, and I wonder about the inefficiency of making every transaction go through intermediaries; transaction processing companies, card issuers, etc. And as a side note, if I just want to purchase something directly from you, say a cord of firewood that fell in a storm in your backyard, do you then need to have a card reader and a deal with a credit card company, and do they get a cut of our private transaction? It seems to make some things more complex than necessary.
I suspect that a lot of journalists have a very weak "sense of number". Reading endless science stories in the popular press, I keep getting the feeling that numeracy is no part of a journalistic education. So much modern science is entwined with mathematics that the lack of a sense of number would make even superficial understanding near impossible.
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Short version: Why should they?
Long version: I find him reprehensible, and find his positions stupid and indefensible, because I'm, I guess, a liberal or leftie or maybe even progressive. According to a number of posts here, I, as a liberal, am supposed to want Trump to be silenced. I do not. Political candidates, no matter how much I don't like them, get, and should get, a podium. Freedom of the news and freedom of speech are more sacred than my desire not to be offended or annoyed.
Amplifying that, I suspect that the desire to not have to be exposed to the likes of DT is more dangerous than DT itself. I am very worried by people on whatever side of whatever issue, who wish to simply silence their opposition. Both sides of an issue frequently have a view the other side should listen to carefully, and not dismiss casually.
By his mere existence he is an insult to every white male.
To every male.
To every white.
To every human.
And yet, it is business as usual to post hoc classify data already in the public domain.
Regardless, had Hillary published the "classified" contents of said emails in a full page ad in a daily, it would have been more secure than had it been sitting in a government server.
This whole non-story is a made up non-issue served up by hypocritical entities that want us to believe (for a brief moment) that government servers are secure like the uber machines in movie spy fictions (in contrast to Hillary's servers) while in fact those entities themselves have no faith in the gummint's ability to do anything well. Were it not for the opportunity to skewer Hillary, they would otherwise have lauded Hillary's selection of private enterprise services.
Same! I'll shop with them to support troll killers, and because they're fantastic. Love 'em. Thank you newegg.
Ahhhhh. The real story! Thx!!!!
Thank you for a very good thought, but alas, he has no spare money for satellite.
When industries are pushed to do something for the public, they make scary noises like this. They fill the air with FUD and we are to to believe that the internet providers will all be driven out of business.
The auto industry, when asked to install seat belts and basic safety items, said it would be near impossible and ruinously expensive. A few years later, miraculously it all worked fine. Dirt cheap and easy.
The ISPs are no different. They'll have to install better connections eventually. The world demands data.
I have a friend who truly is out in the sticks, and he cannot get usable internet at all. Literally, nothing. He has crappy copper wires, a crappy little local phone company / ISP with legendarily bad service. They'd be better put out of business but instead there's no effective pressure to make them improve.
I couldn't give a hoot if we had either effective monopoly regulation, or truly effective competition, but we have neither. We have ineffective monopolies, crappy service, no power to effect change, high rates and lousy service.
The underlying theory behind insurance is to spread risk as broadly as possible to reduce the cost of being protected. Insurance companies discovered that they can select small low risk slices of the market and treat them preferentially. The result is a myriad of little groups all of whom pay too much, since small groups cannot effectively spread risk very far.
The insurance companies have ruined the great benefit of insurance for the insureds, and have substituted great benefit for themselves.
"When everything is fake, anything is possible, and it becomes boring and unreal." Exactly. Yes.
Not to mention frequently stupid, childish, annoying...
Give me the chance to see a movie in the regular 2d mode, and I'll go for that every time. 3d is lousy, and I just say no to it. Not about the surcharge, just that it detracts from the quality of movie watching every time.
So I love this.
If "Our Age" means the last three minutes, maybe.
I'd never even think of clicking on something with a name remotely like "adfly". Are you kidding!
Names like that lead, at best. to clickbait crap. Funny, so many scummy enterprises have urls that are like the bright coloration on the most toxic critters, a warning of the perils of proximity.
Not only will it come back to bite utilities, but as energy costs rise, it will come back to bite short sighted utility commissions, politicians with their heads in the sand about energy and carbon and climate, and phony "news" sources proclaiming same too. too.
And this sort of silly and poorly thought out opinion piece is why I'm not a big NYT fan.
Please Canonical, please release this tablet worldwide. Please don't exclude important markets like was done with the phones. It is frustrating to have Linux phones only partially available (not full functioned in US). I am dying to use Linux for all my computing needs.
Seen as "Linux runs a few more servers", not news at all. Seen as "Canonical gets a high profile contract", it is a decent piece of business news.
And all those volcanoes just happened to start really acting up at the start of the industrial revolution, thus explaining climatic change without implicating human activity...
Sure.
right on.
The way I see it Gimp and PS both have awful interfaces and are both a handful to learn. But, photoshop has a larger and more professional set of tutorials from outside the project, like videos on youtube etc. Gimp suffers from having fewer tutorials and a generally lower quality level. The two are similar enough though that I just look for the best tutorial for my needs, from either program, and then figure out how to adapt the results to what I'm using.
While there are thoughtful libertarians who I would welcome as new neighbors, there are too many who seem to act upon an overly simplistic and near absolute belief in individualism. I'm in NO way in love with "collective" this or that, and wish libertarian notions were more workable, but I just don't see it.
I live in NH. I am not looking forward to the possibility of libertarian migration.
'...In general, the rule of thumb in Scandinavia is: "If you have to pay in cash, something is wrong."...'
I sort of get this, the idea that if you have nothing to hide, then who cares if your transactions leave a trail, but if the Swedes really want to get rid of cash, then,
A. Stop printing it, and,
B ban all transactions using cash.
But I wonder about folks who do no wrong but simply want to live their lives privately, and I wonder about the inefficiency of making every transaction go through intermediaries; transaction processing companies, card issuers, etc. And as a side note, if I just want to purchase something directly from you, say a cord of firewood that fell in a storm in your backyard, do you then need to have a card reader and a deal with a credit card company, and do they get a cut of our private transaction? It seems to make some things more complex than necessary.
I suspect that a lot of journalists have a very weak "sense of number". Reading endless science stories in the popular press, I keep getting the feeling that numeracy is no part of a journalistic education. So much modern science is entwined with mathematics that the lack of a sense of number would make even superficial understanding near impossible.
Still yes.
Yes, a thousand times yes.