People continue to sell contraband tobacco and moonshine
While that is true, it's at a completely different scale. If I wanted I could talk to a couple friends and probably get my hands on just about any illegal drug, but I would have no idea where to start if I wanted to get some bootleg moonshine.
The problem with this liberty is that people who abuse the drugs and damage their health, or their ability to hold a job, or become a burden in some other way,
I remember a story I read in the paper once, about a married father of 3 who was killed in an avalanche while skiing. Unfortunately, this was not an accident: he was skiing in an off-limits avalanche zone, when there was a high chance of an avalanche occurring. He had been hit by an avalanche the previous year, but survived and was mostly unharmed. His wife begged him to stop skiing in dangerous areas, right up until he died. IIRC, the life insurance was also refusing to pay out due to the circumstances, leaving her and her children in a bad way financially.
It struck me even at the time how many parallels this story has to drug abuse. He knew the potential consequences, everyone around him was pressuring him to stop, yet on a deeper level he couldn't resist because he was addicted. Whether it was the adrenaline, dopamine, what-have-you. You can't legislate away stupidity.
Just like all the people who go skiing every year and don't die, it is actually possible to use drugs responsibly and not be a burden to society. Those who use it irresponsibly (while driving, etc.) will be punished, just like we do with alcohol, but the rest of us should be free to choose what we put in our own bodies.
He actually said he leaked the memo after Trump said there were tapes. Specifically, because he realized that if there were tapes then it wouldn't just be his words against the President's.
If you are really confused about this, you could try reading the history of the US Constitution. Specifically focus on the "Great Compromise". Without it we wouldn't have a country at all.
Oh I'm sorry, was Obama in charge of the entire Congress? Because the last time I checked the motherfucking Constitution, Congress, and not the President, is responsible for spending and taxation.
The reason the debt problem will never be solved is because people who need a serious crash course in civics keep blaming the wrong branch of the bloody government! Hold Congress responsible for their fucking job and make them pass surplus budgets until the debt is cleared. That is the only way, besides becoming a failed state, to get rid of our debt.
So please, for our country's sake, read the Constitution or shut the fuck up.
I'll agree to voter ID the second you make it 100% free and make elections a national holiday. But you won't because it's about disenfranchising people you don't want voting. If your concern was truly voter fraud you would agree with the 2 conditions I set without hesitation.
Yes, it's difficult for container ships to deliver to places that are landlocked, what's your point exactly? The OP was talking about boats and the ocean.
Anyway, an airship is likely still not the most efficient or cost effective way of delivering to either of those places. The link to Manaus centers on Eduardo Gomes International Airport, so... why not just use a plane?
Google seems to have ambitions to turn Chrome browser into more of a quasi-OS platform.
This was the original plan. When I was at University, Google came to give a recruitment speech to all the CS/EE/CE students. This was when Chrome was pretty much brand new.
Basically they wanted to undo the advent of distributed computing and return us to the mainframe-terminal architecture. Quite literally, the guy said something along the lines of "We want your computer to just be a monitor, keyboard, and mouse."
It was at that point I realized that you didn't have to be that smart to work at Google.
Calling it spying when everyone knows exactly what is happening and they are open about it is quite silly.
Most people probably have no idea that Chrome is collecting data at all. If they do happen to know that, they probably have no idea what exactly they are collecting anyway. I bet you couldn't tell me everything that Chrome is collecting with absolute certainty.
If Google is so "open" about it, then there should be somewhere I can go and see a detailed list of every piece of data collected, and exactly how it is collected, with independent audits of each code release performed to ensure accuracy. But no such thing exists.
I don't know and I don't care. I don't maintain the distros, or contribute to them. They are just a tool that I use. The standards for that tool change, and because I need the tool, I adapt to that change.
Also, I'm not taking your assertion that systemd isn't an improvement as a given. I don't know whether that's the case or not.
How dare you defend systemd! Only the opinions of crusty old sys admins who were around when Linus' balls dropped are relevant here!
But seriously I don't really get it either. I made the change from Squeeze to Jessie for my server and while it was a little frustrating at first I soon learned my way around systemd. I haven't had any stability or unreliability issues either. Then again I've only been using Linux regularly for the past 5-6 years, so I don't really have any emotional attachment to the way things used to be.
Like the federal government under Obama not enforcing immigration laws on the books.
It is well within the powers of the President to prioritize law enforcement, especially immigration. It's not like deportations dropped suddenly under Obama. Would you rather deport X felons or X/2 felons + X/2 otherwise innocent people? This kind of thing happens all the time at every level of government. District Attorneys don't prosecute every case that comes in front of them, they have to prioritize. Would you claim a cop is "not enforcing the traffic laws" because they choose not to pull over a speeder while on their way to a homicide? Probably not.
The Trump administration has done nothing counter to Constitution.
Well not successfully at least. Federal judges from all over the country found enough of a Constitutional issue in Trump's travel bans to warrant indefinite injunctions until the cases are settled (assuming the Administration still intends to fight them at all).
Keep in mind, the Administration didn't try to justify the bans in court, but instead claimed that they didn't have to provide justification. From the 9th Circuit Ruling (source):
[T]he government has taken the position that the president’s decisions about immigration policy, particularly when motivated by national security concerns, are unreviewable, even if those actions potentially contravene constitutional rights and protections.... There is no precedent to support this claimed unreviewability, which runs contrary to the fundamental structure of our constitutional democracy.
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People continue to sell contraband tobacco and moonshine
While that is true, it's at a completely different scale. If I wanted I could talk to a couple friends and probably get my hands on just about any illegal drug, but I would have no idea where to start if I wanted to get some bootleg moonshine.
The problem with this liberty is that people who abuse the drugs and damage their health, or their ability to hold a job, or become a burden in some other way,
I remember a story I read in the paper once, about a married father of 3 who was killed in an avalanche while skiing. Unfortunately, this was not an accident: he was skiing in an off-limits avalanche zone, when there was a high chance of an avalanche occurring. He had been hit by an avalanche the previous year, but survived and was mostly unharmed. His wife begged him to stop skiing in dangerous areas, right up until he died. IIRC, the life insurance was also refusing to pay out due to the circumstances, leaving her and her children in a bad way financially.
It struck me even at the time how many parallels this story has to drug abuse. He knew the potential consequences, everyone around him was pressuring him to stop, yet on a deeper level he couldn't resist because he was addicted. Whether it was the adrenaline, dopamine, what-have-you. You can't legislate away stupidity.
Just like all the people who go skiing every year and don't die, it is actually possible to use drugs responsibly and not be a burden to society. Those who use it irresponsibly (while driving, etc.) will be punished, just like we do with alcohol, but the rest of us should be free to choose what we put in our own bodies.
So what you're saying is we should ban ceramics and leather?
Apparently not.
There is no statute against "leaks" in general. The Espionage Act only covers information related to national defence.
+1 Funny
He actually said he leaked the memo after Trump said there were tapes. Specifically, because he realized that if there were tapes then it wouldn't just be his words against the President's.
"Not to be confused with Nazism" isn't a great way to frame an argument.
Actually, you're anti-Semitic in both cases, since Arabs are Semites.
So what you're saying is that you believe the debt is not going to grow under Trump, even though Congress continues to pass deficit budgets?
Maybe your problem isn't civics, but arithmetic.
Well if Trump ever accomplishes anything then at least we'll have something to compare to.
If you are really confused about this, you could try reading the history of the US Constitution. Specifically focus on the "Great Compromise". Without it we wouldn't have a country at all.
Oh I'm sorry, was Obama in charge of the entire Congress? Because the last time I checked the motherfucking Constitution, Congress, and not the President, is responsible for spending and taxation.
The reason the debt problem will never be solved is because people who need a serious crash course in civics keep blaming the wrong branch of the bloody government! Hold Congress responsible for their fucking job and make them pass surplus budgets until the debt is cleared. That is the only way, besides becoming a failed state, to get rid of our debt.
So please, for our country's sake, read the Constitution or shut the fuck up.
I'll agree to voter ID the second you make it 100% free and make elections a national holiday. But you won't because it's about disenfranchising people you don't want voting. If your concern was truly voter fraud you would agree with the 2 conditions I set without hesitation.
Yes, it's difficult for container ships to deliver to places that are landlocked, what's your point exactly? The OP was talking about boats and the ocean.
Anyway, an airship is likely still not the most efficient or cost effective way of delivering to either of those places. The link to Manaus centers on Eduardo Gomes International Airport, so... why not just use a plane?
Damn. I guess that's the kind of genius it takes to become a billionaire.
Google seems to have ambitions to turn Chrome browser into more of a quasi-OS platform.
This was the original plan. When I was at University, Google came to give a recruitment speech to all the CS/EE/CE students. This was when Chrome was pretty much brand new.
Basically they wanted to undo the advent of distributed computing and return us to the mainframe-terminal architecture. Quite literally, the guy said something along the lines of "We want your computer to just be a monitor, keyboard, and mouse."
It was at that point I realized that you didn't have to be that smart to work at Google.
Calling it spying when everyone knows exactly what is happening and they are open about it is quite silly.
Most people probably have no idea that Chrome is collecting data at all. If they do happen to know that, they probably have no idea what exactly they are collecting anyway. I bet you couldn't tell me everything that Chrome is collecting with absolute certainty.
If Google is so "open" about it, then there should be somewhere I can go and see a detailed list of every piece of data collected, and exactly how it is collected, with independent audits of each code release performed to ensure accuracy. But no such thing exists.
So effectively it is still secret.
Not only that, I'd be surprised if an airship could match even 1% of the carrying capacity of a modern container ship.
Someone probably Googled "helium" and read that it's the second most abundant element, not realizing that it's all trapped inside the Sun.
Yeah, who needs MRIs?
I don't know and I don't care. I don't maintain the distros, or contribute to them. They are just a tool that I use. The standards for that tool change, and because I need the tool, I adapt to that change.
Also, I'm not taking your assertion that systemd isn't an improvement as a given. I don't know whether that's the case or not.
How dare you defend systemd! Only the opinions of crusty old sys admins who were around when Linus' balls dropped are relevant here!
But seriously I don't really get it either. I made the change from Squeeze to Jessie for my server and while it was a little frustrating at first I soon learned my way around systemd. I haven't had any stability or unreliability issues either. Then again I've only been using Linux regularly for the past 5-6 years, so I don't really have any emotional attachment to the way things used to be.
DVD is pretty old. Rendering the text may have been too computationally expensive at the time.
Absolutely nothing, because the alleged perpetrator was born in the UK.
Also, don't reference Breitbart as if I'm supposed to take that trash seriously.
Like sanctuary cities that think they're above the law?
Actually, the vast majority of sanctuary cities are within the law, even by Trump's standards.
Like the federal government under Obama not enforcing immigration laws on the books.
It is well within the powers of the President to prioritize law enforcement, especially immigration. It's not like deportations dropped suddenly under Obama. Would you rather deport X felons or X/2 felons + X/2 otherwise innocent people? This kind of thing happens all the time at every level of government. District Attorneys don't prosecute every case that comes in front of them, they have to prioritize. Would you claim a cop is "not enforcing the traffic laws" because they choose not to pull over a speeder while on their way to a homicide? Probably not.
The Trump administration has done nothing counter to Constitution.
Well not successfully at least. Federal judges from all over the country found enough of a Constitutional issue in Trump's travel bans to warrant indefinite injunctions until the cases are settled (assuming the Administration still intends to fight them at all).
Keep in mind, the Administration didn't try to justify the bans in court, but instead claimed that they didn't have to provide justification. From the 9th Circuit Ruling (source):
[T]he government has taken the position that the president’s decisions about immigration policy, particularly when motivated by national security concerns, are unreviewable, even if those actions potentially contravene constitutional rights and protections. ... There is no precedent to support this claimed unreviewability, which runs contrary to the fundamental structure of our constitutional democracy.