Dell XPS13, Debian doesn't see any wireless networks. Replaced the wireless card with an Intel wireless card that was specifically recommended by Amazon reviewers as having good Linux compatibility and Debian still doesn't see any wireless networks.
Mint and Manjaro both see my wireless networks with both the original and the Intel wireless cards.
Unfortunately neither Mint nor Manjaro successfully restore from suspend mode after closing and reopening the lid.
I like Debian on my VMs and servers, but it's not looking like a viable laptop OS at the moment.
Probably true, but not even remotely an answer to my question.
Many of the comments on this article imply that Harvard grads are not examples of "someone else who will do all the work" but there are claims that the already long established wealthy are waiting at Harvard's exit doors to hand bags of cash to the newly minted Harvard grads.
Somehow there's a cognitive dissonance where it is apparently obvious to people that a Harvard grad is NOT "someone who will do all the work and give you all the profits" and yet the established rich are tripping over their own feet in their rush to hand over their wealth to these Harvard grads who will simply consume that wealth rather than generating profits back to their new employer.
Giving wealth to a Harvard grad makes sense if they will give back multiples of that wealth to you in profits, but it makes no sense at all if it just makes the grad rich with the slice of your wealth but gets you no return because the Harvard grad allegedly only has the ability to receive riches, not the skills to generate new profits.
No, you totally missed the question because you are thinking only from your own perspective and failed to evaluate the situation from the viewpoint of the people you're trying to deceive. Consider the rich family that you're trying to marry into or the rich person who you're trying to convince to hire you at a fat, undeserved salary. What does your Harvard degree look like to them? Does it really fool them into thinking they should marry you or pay you if it's truly nothing more than a sham?
Do you think that every slashdot poster knows more about Harvard than every rich person, many of whom attended school there or somewhere similar? Why would they be deceived by your Harvard "credentials" if those "credentials" are nothing more than a rubber stamp marking you as "a know nothing who should be given a fat paycheck and a rich spouse"?
Try imagining yourself in the shoes of an already rich and firmly established person evaluating a brand new Harvard graduate. What would the benefit be to the long-time rich you of hiring a fresh new Harvard grad whose only qualification is having been stamped as "rich eligible" if the Harvard degree carries no other weight?
Wouldn't you be better off seeking out highly skilled people who can add to your own already immense wealth rather than transferring a fraction of it to an allegedly unskilled Harvard grad?
I can see why someone who thinks Harvard conveys a "give this graduate wealth" stamp would want to go there, but that doesn't explain why any OTHER rich person would transfer a fraction of their own wealth to somebody merely on the basis of the recipient having that stamp.
Question: if you were rich, why would you want to give away your money to other rich people rather than using it to make you more money by hiring highly skilled people?
This is a serious question. I really would like to know why a rich person would want to blow their money on proping up other rich people rather than using it to benefit themself.
Your post seems to imply that the rich are a unified group mind as opposed to a bunch of self centered individuals looking out for their own best interests. Is that based on any evidence?
I can't really comment since the article looked to me like a "sorry, Firefox has crashed" message. I caught a brief glimpse of blinking maps before the crash, but two attempts led to two crashes so I guess they don't want the article to be read on an Android tablet. Fortunately for me I feel absolutely no sense of loss from not being able to read it and proceed happily along with the rest of my life. Incidentally, I have both apple and android phones and have not had any trouble with either of them giving me navigation to any destinations I've needed to get to. As far as I'm concerned that's all that matters, so I don't suppose the article is whining about anything important.
On the other hand, the Honda Element gets just short of 290 miles running the tank dry. Safer to fill up at around 270. I wish I could plug it in when it's parked in my garage because I spend far more time at home than on the road, but unfortunately it wants gasoline and I dont have a gasoline outlet in my garage, just an electrical outlet.
I'd love to get a Tesla, but I think I've got at least another ten years before the Element wears out. I did take it on a road trip in 2006, but that was my last road trip and I don't have any more planned so I'm not at all concerned about Tesla range.
Try this link https://www.youtube.com/channe... if you don't think "three blue one brown" communicates complex information effectively in a video format I don't know what to tell you. Of course the written information is also necessary, but I don't think it would be accurate to say that you'd be better off with only the written and not the video.
You may still be right that they're rare, but not so rare that they can't make up at least 80% of what I watch on youtube. Maybe you're just not looking for them.
Trump supporters should now become more and more aware that Congress is steadily withdrawing powers from the Presidency and boxing the office in
And if the Trump presidency accomplishes no more than this it will have been a tremendous success. The US should not be a monarchy and it should not be a winner take all contest every four years to elect a supreme ruler. If Trump can convince America to withdraw power from the presidency, I'm all for it. Now if only we could convince people to allow diversity among the states so that people with differing opinions can share the country without one size fits all restrictions on every aspect of behavior, maybe we could have some peace. But I guess that makes me a hopeless optimist.
I recommend a sustained saturation bombing of the entire planet for at least a few decades. It'll take some serious dedication, but I bet that if we can eliminate all life on earth it would put an end to the consumption of resources and production of waste once and for all.
I assume that the goal here is to put the earth into a steady state where nothing ever changes. It seems that change always upsets someone, so we might as well get it over with once and be done with it rather than listening to constant complaining any time anything changes anything else.
On the other hand, if finding stuff to complain about is a hobby that some people enjoy then disregard this post and continue your regularly scheduled griping about whatever your latest object of rage is.
Sounds interesting. I do see an "FM" button in my car but the thumbs up and thumbs down buttons appear to be missing. Any suggestions on how I can permanently block specific songs from playing or make other songs play more frequently on this "FM" device? Oh, and where's the "search" box? Obviously with Pandora I just type in the name of a song or artist on the qwerty keyboard, but it's not clear where the corresponding UI is in my car.
I tried pressing the "FM" buton but it seems to play quite a lot of crap that I don't want to hear. It definitely needs some serious thumbs down input.
My employer (a fortune 100 company) provides every employee with a personalized annual report showing the target salary range for their job title and exactly where their current salary falls relative to the low and high ends of the range. The internal job listings show the target salary for every posted position with the geographic variation for different pay for the same job title in different regions of the US.
Is this unique? It's a company that gets a lot of hate posts every time it's mentioned on slashdot. Maybe only companies that get a lot of hate make enough profit to treat rank and file employees well.
Since when are CEO salaries not public in the US? Are you talking about pretentious small or medium sized business owners who call themself CEO to feel bigger? When I hear CEO I generally assume we're talking about a publicly owned company. Are there publicly owned companies that don't report executive compensation? I thought it was mandatory. I certainly know the total compensation of the executives of the company I work for from reading the SEC filings.
I'd be shocked if the union reps negotiating contracts don't know exactly what our top execs are paid and would not hesitate to use it to motivate the union members if it made sense to do so.
This is not true. On my iPhone the only options for Waze are Always and Never. I use Waze on rare occasions. I absolutely don't want it tracking my position all the time but if I set it to never then it doesn't work at all. There's no option for "while using".
What a completely useless article. Since I don't care at all if people take fake weapons or drugs on planes, the only question of any importance is "how much explosive?" but the article doesn't give any info on that essential question.
This "failure" may have been a trivial amount of some explosive too small to pose any serious threat, plus a bunch of items that aren't even a threat in any quantity.
I'm certainly willing to believe that the TBA is useless, but this article has zero value in supporting that belief.
Standard US wall sockets are 120V @ 15A so I doubt you'll find 3000W vacuum cleaners here either. Hardly anyone would be able to even physically plug one in.
Darn... I was so hoping to see that the Airline industry was finally putting USB charging ports and Bluetooth capabilities into the cockpit. Nothing worse that trying to talk on the phone while putting the flaps down. Hands free would be a serious improvement.
Nothing worse? Really? I think you lack imagination.
How about trying to land after an electrical system failure has disabled all the built in radios and you have neither a hand held backup radio or a cell phone. I bet that would be worse than using a cell phone to reach ATC, declare emergency and advise of your approach and landing plans.
How about a VFR pilot being forced to divert due to IFR conditions and flying out of the area covered by your paper charts? Bet you'd wish you had a charged tablet or phone with all the charts rather than just the ones you'd expected to use.
I'm not sure about bluetooth, but USB charging ports are definitely great to have because tablets are far superior than lugging around every paper chart you might ever possibly need. The belt and suspenders type pilot will probably carry a few paper charts as well, but a full set of all charts for everywhere is big and heavy.
Plus, while probably not an issue for a commercial jet, in smaller planes a portable ADS-B receiver is likely USB powered. While it may also have a battery, it would be more conservative to power it from a USB power port in the plane while possible and rely on the battery as a backup.
MAL That wasn't a bad idea, Wash, but eliminating the middle man is never simple as it sounds.
WASH (surprised) You heard about...?
MAL About fifty percent of the human race is middle men and they don't take kindly to being eliminated. This quadrant, we play nice. We got enemies enough as it is.
The reasons people still eat meat in the developed world are habit, taste, and convenience, and none of these reasons are sufficient to justify killing an animal to satisfy some type of primal urge.
Sure they are. They're great reasons and plenty sufficient. If they weren't sufficient nobody would do it.
It may be better now, but I've got a few cameras that require a crappy Internet Explorer only configuration "web" interface and even if you can get streaming video to work with VLC it's unreliable.
I'm completely unwilling to give a camera Internet access and allow it to connect to its vendor's website. If you are willing to put video of your home "in the cloud" (i.e. allowing someone you don't know to sit in between you and the camera) then you probably have more options since I think there are a lot of cameras out there that want you to interact with them via the vendor's website and phone application.
I don't have any Raspberry Pi cameras deployed, but I'd much prefer a full Linux under my own control than a black box camera OS that wants an Internet connection and can be controlled by the vendor's website.
Look, I can deal with the rest of the world being morons, but on Slashdot at least can we replace the asinine phrase "full HD" with the accurate phrase "low resolution" or "crappy low resolution".
The phrase "full HD" has been bullshit from the day it was invented since there were much higher resolutions available earlier. It was always sales fraud to make lousy sound like it was not crap.
No, it's like countless other businesses with good customer service. Granted, cars are expensive, but VW screwed up big.
There are countless businesses where you can take back a defective product and get a replacement with minimal hassle. Clothing, food, electronics. If you take the product back to the retail establishment it is VERY common that they'll give you a new one even if the package has been opened as long as the item is clearly defective.
The VW cars were clearly defective. Worse, they were fradulently defective. The person who was defrauded should not be obligated to jump through hoops.
Every car has a unique VIN. VW can take on the burden of verifying the title and verifying that the car is not reported stolen. There's no reason this should be the customer's obligation.
Perhaps the customer should call the dealer first and give them the VIN verbally, or go to a website where the only fields are a VIN field and the dealer that you plan to go to.
Once they have the VIN, VW can do all the legwork and if you pull into the dealer with a car that matches the VIN you claimed it has, VW should have all the paperwork done. There's no justification for making the customer go through multiple steps when it's VW's fault.
I don't think there should have been a buyback at all. Why should VW be allowed to make their customers jump through hoops or file paperwork. The way it should have been ordered by the courts to work is this:
1) VW owner drives car to VW dealer. 2) Dealer looks up original sticker price (if necessary, look up VIN to find if it was purchased at a different dealer and get the sticker price there.) 3) Customer picks out a car off the lot (possibly with a restriction that the sticker price must be within x% of the sticker price of the car they are returning) 4) If sticker price of new car is lower, VW issues customer a check for the difference in price 5) If sticker price is higher, customer pays the difference (or chooses a different car off the lot) 6) Customer drives away in new car
If customer can't find a single car on the lot that they would want to have, they can go to any other VW dealer and have the same options.
If customer doesn't want a VW at all they can still follow the steps above and sell the brand new car. They ought to be able to get enough from a used car dealer to be worth at least as much as the used price of the VW they originally bought.
VW should do all the paperwork. All the customer should have to do is sign the papers agreeing to a straight swap of the old for new plus the dollar amount of the difference in sticker prices.
Yes, I know that it's the Electoral College that matters. That doesn't mean the popular vote is not of interest.
The popular vote might be of minor interest if a candidate with greater than 50% of the popular vote failed to win the election and if the discussion was in the context of what the constitutional amendment should look like to change the part of the constitution that defines the electoral college.
According to a CNN article that I just Googled, Clinton received 48.2% of the popular vote. I am completely unable to generate any sympathy for anyone bringing up the popular vote in a specifically anti-trump context, especially if they aren't advocating for disbanding the senate. The Congressional representation follows exactly the same heuristic as the electoral college. Anyone griping against the electoral college without also advocating a change to the structure of congressional (specifically senate) representation can't be taken seriously.
The popular vote DID NOT give Clinton (or Trump) a mandate to lead.
But I'm fairly certain there wasn't so much outrage over the electoral college before the election.
I didn't vote for Trump or Clinton, but I'd give more credence to the Clinton camp if someone can cite clear evidence that the Democrats were upset about the electoral college before the election.
Harping on it only after the election is bullshit.
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Dell XPS13, Debian doesn't see any wireless networks. Replaced the wireless card with an Intel wireless card that was specifically recommended by Amazon reviewers as having good Linux compatibility and Debian still doesn't see any wireless networks.
Mint and Manjaro both see my wireless networks with both the original and the Intel wireless cards.
Unfortunately neither Mint nor Manjaro successfully restore from suspend mode after closing and reopening the lid.
I like Debian on my VMs and servers, but it's not looking like a viable laptop OS at the moment.
Probably true, but not even remotely an answer to my question.
Many of the comments on this article imply that Harvard grads are not examples of "someone else who will do all the work" but there are claims that the already long established wealthy are waiting at Harvard's exit doors to hand bags of cash to the newly minted Harvard grads.
Somehow there's a cognitive dissonance where it is apparently obvious to people that a Harvard grad is NOT "someone who will do all the work and give you all the profits" and yet the established rich are tripping over their own feet in their rush to hand over their wealth to these Harvard grads who will simply consume that wealth rather than generating profits back to their new employer.
Giving wealth to a Harvard grad makes sense if they will give back multiples of that wealth to you in profits, but it makes no sense at all if it just makes the grad rich with the slice of your wealth but gets you no return because the Harvard grad allegedly only has the ability to receive riches, not the skills to generate new profits.
No, you totally missed the question because you are thinking only from your own perspective and failed to evaluate the situation from the viewpoint of the people you're trying to deceive. Consider the rich family that you're trying to marry into or the rich person who you're trying to convince to hire you at a fat, undeserved salary. What does your Harvard degree look like to them? Does it really fool them into thinking they should marry you or pay you if it's truly nothing more than a sham?
Do you think that every slashdot poster knows more about Harvard than every rich person, many of whom attended school there or somewhere similar? Why would they be deceived by your Harvard "credentials" if those "credentials" are nothing more than a rubber stamp marking you as "a know nothing who should be given a fat paycheck and a rich spouse"?
Try imagining yourself in the shoes of an already rich and firmly established person evaluating a brand new Harvard graduate. What would the benefit be to the long-time rich you of hiring a fresh new Harvard grad whose only qualification is having been stamped as "rich eligible" if the Harvard degree carries no other weight?
Wouldn't you be better off seeking out highly skilled people who can add to your own already immense wealth rather than transferring a fraction of it to an allegedly unskilled Harvard grad?
I can see why someone who thinks Harvard conveys a "give this graduate wealth" stamp would want to go there, but that doesn't explain why any OTHER rich person would transfer a fraction of their own wealth to somebody merely on the basis of the recipient having that stamp.
Question: if you were rich, why would you want to give away your money to other rich people rather than using it to make you more money by hiring highly skilled people?
This is a serious question. I really would like to know why a rich person would want to blow their money on proping up other rich people rather than using it to benefit themself.
Your post seems to imply that the rich are a unified group mind as opposed to a bunch of self centered individuals looking out for their own best interests. Is that based on any evidence?
I can't really comment since the article looked to me like a "sorry, Firefox has crashed" message. I caught a brief glimpse of blinking maps before the crash, but two attempts led to two crashes so I guess they don't want the article to be read on an Android tablet. Fortunately for me I feel absolutely no sense of loss from not being able to read it and proceed happily along with the rest of my life. Incidentally, I have both apple and android phones and have not had any trouble with either of them giving me navigation to any destinations I've needed to get to. As far as I'm concerned that's all that matters, so I don't suppose the article is whining about anything important.
On the other hand, the Honda Element gets just short of 290 miles running the tank dry. Safer to fill up at around 270. I wish I could plug it in when it's parked in my garage because I spend far more time at home than on the road, but unfortunately it wants gasoline and I dont have a gasoline outlet in my garage, just an electrical outlet.
I'd love to get a Tesla, but I think I've got at least another ten years before the Element wears out. I did take it on a road trip in 2006, but that was my last road trip and I don't have any more planned so I'm not at all concerned about Tesla range.
Try this link
https://www.youtube.com/channe... if you don't think "three blue one brown" communicates complex information effectively in a video format I don't know what to tell you. Of course the written information is also necessary, but I don't think it would be accurate to say that you'd be better off with only the written and not the video.
You may still be right that they're rare, but not so rare that they can't make up at least 80% of what I watch on youtube. Maybe you're just not looking for them.
Trump supporters should now become more and more aware that Congress is steadily withdrawing powers from the Presidency and boxing the office in
And if the Trump presidency accomplishes no more than this it will have been a tremendous success. The US should not be a monarchy and it should not be a winner take all contest every four years to elect a supreme ruler. If Trump can convince America to withdraw power from the presidency, I'm all for it. Now if only we could convince people to allow diversity among the states so that people with differing opinions can share the country without one size fits all restrictions on every aspect of behavior, maybe we could have some peace. But I guess that makes me a hopeless optimist.
I recommend a sustained saturation bombing of the entire planet for at least a few decades. It'll take some serious dedication, but I bet that if we can eliminate all life on earth it would put an end to the consumption of resources and production of waste once and for all.
I assume that the goal here is to put the earth into a steady state where nothing ever changes. It seems that change always upsets someone, so we might as well get it over with once and be done with it rather than listening to constant complaining any time anything changes anything else.
On the other hand, if finding stuff to complain about is a hobby that some people enjoy then disregard this post and continue your regularly scheduled griping about whatever your latest object of rage is.
Sounds interesting. I do see an "FM" button in my car but the thumbs up and thumbs down buttons appear to be missing. Any suggestions on how I can permanently block specific songs from playing or make other songs play more frequently on this "FM" device? Oh, and where's the "search" box? Obviously with Pandora I just type in the name of a song or artist on the qwerty keyboard, but it's not clear where the corresponding UI is in my car.
I tried pressing the "FM" buton but it seems to play quite a lot of crap that I don't want to hear. It definitely needs some serious thumbs down input.
My employer (a fortune 100 company) provides every employee with a personalized annual report showing the target salary range for their job title and exactly where their current salary falls relative to the low and high ends of the range. The internal job listings show the target salary for every posted position with the geographic variation for different pay for the same job title in different regions of the US.
Is this unique? It's a company that gets a lot of hate posts every time it's mentioned on slashdot. Maybe only companies that get a lot of hate make enough profit to treat rank and file employees well.
Since when are CEO salaries not public in the US? Are you talking about pretentious small or medium sized business owners who call themself CEO to feel bigger? When I hear CEO I generally assume we're talking about a publicly owned company. Are there publicly owned companies that don't report executive compensation? I thought it was mandatory. I certainly know the total compensation of the executives of the company I work for from reading the SEC filings.
I'd be shocked if the union reps negotiating contracts don't know exactly what our top execs are paid and would not hesitate to use it to motivate the union members if it made sense to do so.
This is not true. On my iPhone the only options for Waze are Always and Never. I use Waze on rare occasions. I absolutely don't want it tracking my position all the time but if I set it to never then it doesn't work at all. There's no option for "while using".
Before enrolling in an MBA program (or attempting to run a business without any training) try taking the following short quiz:
Question 1) Revenue should be
A) Greater than total expenses
B) Equal to total expenses
C) Less than total expenses
If you answered B or C you should probably reconsider your career choice of running a business.
If you answered A your business may still fail, but at least you've got a chance of success.
What a completely useless article. Since I don't care at all if people take fake weapons or drugs on planes, the only question of any importance is "how much explosive?" but the article doesn't give any info on that essential question.
This "failure" may have been a trivial amount of some explosive too small to pose any serious threat, plus a bunch of items that aren't even a threat in any quantity.
I'm certainly willing to believe that the TBA is useless, but this article has zero value in supporting that belief.
Standard US wall sockets are 120V @ 15A so I doubt you'll find 3000W vacuum cleaners here either. Hardly anyone would be able to even physically plug one in.
Darn... I was so hoping to see that the Airline industry was finally putting USB charging ports and Bluetooth capabilities into the cockpit. Nothing worse that trying to talk on the phone while putting the flaps down. Hands free would be a serious improvement.
Nothing worse? Really? I think you lack imagination.
How about trying to land after an electrical system failure has disabled all the built in radios and you have neither a hand held backup radio or a cell phone. I bet that would be worse than using a cell phone to reach ATC, declare emergency and advise of your approach and landing plans.
How about a VFR pilot being forced to divert due to IFR conditions and flying out of the area covered by your paper charts? Bet you'd wish you had a charged tablet or phone with all the charts rather than just the ones you'd expected to use.
I'm not sure about bluetooth, but USB charging ports are definitely great to have because tablets are far superior than lugging around every paper chart you might ever possibly need. The belt and suspenders type pilot will probably carry a few paper charts as well, but a full set of all charts for everywhere is big and heavy.
Plus, while probably not an issue for a commercial jet, in smaller planes a portable ADS-B receiver is likely USB powered. While it may also have a battery, it would be more conservative to power it from a USB power port in the plane while possible and rely on the battery as a backup.
WASH
(sotto voce)
Could've made more.
MAL
That wasn't a bad idea, Wash, but
eliminating the middle man is never
simple as it sounds.
WASH
(surprised)
You heard about...?
MAL
About fifty percent of the human race
is middle men and they don't take kindly
to being eliminated. This quadrant,
we play nice. We got enemies enough
as it is.
From: http://firefly.shriftweb.org/s...
The reasons people still eat meat in the developed world are habit, taste, and convenience, and none of these reasons are sufficient to justify killing an animal to satisfy some type of primal urge.
Sure they are. They're great reasons and plenty sufficient. If they weren't sufficient nobody would do it.
It may be better now, but I've got a few cameras that require a crappy Internet Explorer only configuration "web" interface and even if you can get streaming video to work with VLC it's unreliable.
I'm completely unwilling to give a camera Internet access and allow it to connect to its vendor's website. If you are willing to put video of your home "in the cloud" (i.e. allowing someone you don't know to sit in between you and the camera) then you probably have more options since I think there are a lot of cameras out there that want you to interact with them via the vendor's website and phone application.
I don't have any Raspberry Pi cameras deployed, but I'd much prefer a full Linux under my own control than a black box camera OS that wants an Internet connection and can be controlled by the vendor's website.
Look, I can deal with the rest of the world being morons, but on Slashdot at least can we replace the asinine phrase "full HD" with the accurate phrase "low resolution" or "crappy low resolution".
The phrase "full HD" has been bullshit from the day it was invented since there were much higher resolutions available earlier. It was always sales fraud to make lousy sound like it was not crap.
No, it's like countless other businesses with good customer service. Granted, cars are expensive, but VW screwed up big.
There are countless businesses where you can take back a defective product and get a replacement with minimal hassle. Clothing, food, electronics. If you take the product back to the retail establishment it is VERY common that they'll give you a new one even if the package has been opened as long as the item is clearly defective.
The VW cars were clearly defective. Worse, they were fradulently defective. The person who was defrauded should not be obligated to jump through hoops.
Every car has a unique VIN. VW can take on the burden of verifying the title and verifying that the car is not reported stolen. There's no reason this should be the customer's obligation.
Perhaps the customer should call the dealer first and give them the VIN verbally, or go to a website where the only fields are a VIN field and the dealer that you plan to go to.
Once they have the VIN, VW can do all the legwork and if you pull into the dealer with a car that matches the VIN you claimed it has, VW should have all the paperwork done. There's no justification for making the customer go through multiple steps when it's VW's fault.
I don't think there should have been a buyback at all. Why should VW be allowed to make their customers jump through hoops or file paperwork. The way it should have been ordered by the courts to work is this:
1) VW owner drives car to VW dealer.
2) Dealer looks up original sticker price (if necessary, look up VIN to find if it was purchased at a different dealer and get the sticker price there.)
3) Customer picks out a car off the lot (possibly with a restriction that the sticker price must be within x% of the sticker price of the car they are returning)
4) If sticker price of new car is lower, VW issues customer a check for the difference in price
5) If sticker price is higher, customer pays the difference (or chooses a different car off the lot)
6) Customer drives away in new car
If customer can't find a single car on the lot that they would want to have, they can go to any other VW dealer and have the same options.
If customer doesn't want a VW at all they can still follow the steps above and sell the brand new car. They ought to be able to get enough from a used car dealer to be worth at least as much as the used price of the VW they originally bought.
VW should do all the paperwork. All the customer should have to do is sign the papers agreeing to a straight swap of the old for new plus the dollar amount of the difference in sticker prices.
Yes, I know that it's the Electoral College that matters. That doesn't mean the popular vote is not of interest.
The popular vote might be of minor interest if a candidate with greater than 50% of the popular vote failed to win the election and if the discussion was in the context of what the constitutional amendment should look like to change the part of the constitution that defines the electoral college.
According to a CNN article that I just Googled, Clinton received 48.2% of the popular vote. I am completely unable to generate any sympathy for anyone bringing up the popular vote in a specifically anti-trump context, especially if they aren't advocating for disbanding the senate. The Congressional representation follows exactly the same heuristic as the electoral college. Anyone griping against the electoral college without also advocating a change to the structure of congressional (specifically senate) representation can't be taken seriously.
The popular vote DID NOT give Clinton (or Trump) a mandate to lead.
I'm trying to remember if there was so much grief when Bill Clinton won with 43% of the popular vote. I honestly don't remember.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But I'm fairly certain there wasn't so much outrage over the electoral college before the election.
I didn't vote for Trump or Clinton, but I'd give more credence to the Clinton camp if someone can cite clear evidence that the Democrats were upset about the electoral college before the election.
Harping on it only after the election is bullshit.