Or just don't enable the wifi and don't let it pick up an IP address. I really don't like that they have a mic. When I need access to NetFlix, Amazon prime, etc, I use my Sony BluRay player instead, which gives me a better picture anyway for some reason (Samsung vs Sony maybe?) At least that divorces it from the television and is only on when I'm watching 'net shows.
It's relatively rare that a hard criminal will truly become reformed. First off, unless they actually want to reform, it'll never happen, they have to drive that change... and even then some just can't. So it's not always a case of difficulty; in many cases it's just impossible.
Still, I think they were kind of joking. I mean, it was an obvious joke someone was going to make.
I especially remember the story with Gil "Long Arm of the Law" Hamilton, and the wirehead that never bothered to leave his chair to eat, so he starved to death with a stupid grin on his face. That may well be a cautionary tale.
Perhaps the article is actually referring to the "Hand of Glory", which purportedly conferred some level of camouflage (darkness) to the burglar schooled enough in the arcane arts to use one. The new and improved models block IR now too.
Well, that's it exactly. It's not entirely viable because the environmental and political resistance kept nuclear from becoming more widely accepted, and kept people from accepting more modernized nuclear technologies. Many people probably aren't comfortable with a plant in their "neighborhood". TBH, I'd have had second thoughts about living too close to one back then, I still remember the 3 mile island scare. But also, 50 years ago, nuclear could not power your car, nor a fleet of trucks to deliver goods to market. Nor could everyone afford to convert to electrical heat in their homes.
I think that what he meant by "turning off the tap" was something more current and abrupt, not 100 years from now. And in that scenario, many people likely could die, without heat, or transport of food and medicine.
Agreed. It's apples and.. brussel sprouts, to use a better analogy. Tobacco has no real benefit to society, smoking is just an unnecessary, dirty personal habit. Energy, OTOH, is absolutely critical to modern life, everything demands it, and the demand keeps increasing. 40, 30, even 20 years ago, there were no solid, widely available, viable alternatives. Solar technology was still highly inefficient.
So we're both right and wrong, as both situations happened and have photographs to prove it.
Vox's photograph appears to show adults or older children in that cage area, I don't see young children. And what should they do in any case, roam around free? Walk out of the building and just enter the country anyway? If it were US citizens sneaking over to Mexico or Panama or Ecuador, they'd be in a rusted, muddy, rat infested jail cell. Of course, this isn't enough for Fox..I mean, Vox, who piously claim, " Rather than prove the administration’s point, the images of the McAllen facility only serve to further illustrate the "horrific" nature of its practices, (really? "horrific"? that's "horrific?") showing kids held in metal enclosures sprawled atop mattresses laid on a concrete floor, with little around them except flimsy space blankets." They're large open areas with chainlink walls instead of drywall. So what? They also called it dark. Looks very well lit to me. This is no worse than what Americans get when they have to huddle in a football stadium after a major hurricane or tornado. It's likely not that cold there and space blankets are fairly effective at reflecting back body heat, maybe they're short on army blankets.. We can't stick everyone in a Red Roof Inn. The later pictures look like any normal day care facility, far better than what they're accustomed to. And naturally the children have IDs to scan, so they can keep track of what resources and meals are given out and to whom, as well as their location, name, etc.
Further, those conditions were the same, or worse under Obama, as the other photographs I linked to prove. No one screamed about them then.
Separating children from their genuine parents is one thing; that's awful and I'm not addressing that here; but complaining about the physical conditions is selective outrage for political purposes. It's like the Puerto Rico/Maria hurricane BS narrative all over again. Oh, and everyone's favorite major, Carmen Yulin Cruz, is now under FBI investigation for - guess what?.. obstructing critical supplies during the crisis.
Aaand there's the "troll" mod anyway, because somebody can't deal with facts that temper emotional appeal.
Here's another fact: in some of these cases, they're not even the children and parents. They've been paired up because the smuggling rings are aware that having children generally got you through the system because it played on these exact sympathies. Those people are essentially human trafficking.
Facts aside, it is sad that children are pulled from their parents, but almost no one is putting any blame for the parents for putting their kids in this situation in the first place as they break another country's laws. If they went legally to the right ingress points and declared they were looking for asylum, they'd be treated better.
Some guilty of a misdemeanor might spend several days in jail though, so not that different. Besides, these kids are not in "prison", it's the whole reason they're being separated. Nor are they locked in "cages", The photos showing chainlink enclosures were either from Obama's era, or the ones that were staged by demonstrators. They're in shelters. I'm sure it's scary for the kids to be separated from their parents, but then ostensibly so has their entire journey. (More so probably for the ones who arent' actually traveling with their parents but were used as legal shields). Congress needs to change the laws rather than keep forcing the executive branch to either enforce it or ignore it. Congress were the ones who wrote this in the first place. I'll add that illegally entering a country is not equivalent to running a red light. A country cannot have an uncontrolled, porous border, you can't check for infectious diseases or criminal elements when everyone just jumps a fence, to the tune of 35,000 a month. And it's rude AF to the people who have gone through the legal channels to do it the right way, even if it does need an overhaul.
Both parties are awful, but currently the party in power is Trumps one, so whatever hillary may or may not have done is academic at best.
Just because one party is "in power", or more accurately, has a small majority in congress, doesn't necessarily mean the other party has no power, and certainly doesn't preclude their influence. Hillary and Bernie are still very relevant.
Yup.. if you flip this around to say, 2011, there'd be cries of "Obstructionism!" But now the popular rallying cry is, "Resist!". Because that's helpful!
Right... The MSM (news and television, movies, etc.) and European media absolutely drooled and fawned over BHO (and his wife) for 8 whole years. The only criticism he ever got was from Fox News (where all he got was criticism, actually) but which was a drop in the ocean compared to the MSM. Obama even got a Nobel prize just for getting elected. You could never criticize anything he said or did, else his army of sycophants deemed you "racist" and then ostracized you, and even today this cult of Obama claim there were no scandals despite the fact that were at least a dozen during his administration. And now those same sycophants are projecting their own behaviors, as a negative, onto all Trump supporters, many of whom actually do exhibit the same cultish traits without the projection. In that sense, the two parallel each other: cultish following, huge egos. It really is the Cult of Personality these days.
Actually it's worse! $10 a month. I did plan on replacing it after all the original installation issues were ironed out, which they are. This Netgear router is just abysmal as far as responsiveness and feature set goes.
While I can't argue your points, (English has more exceptions to the rules than rules, and the phonetics are totally screwed due to its being a mutt language), at least it's gender agnostic. The fact that latin languages give inanimate objects gender attributes irks the bejesus out of me. The closest we get to that in English is referring to a boat as "she" or "her", which is more of an affectionate quality, not a hard grammar rule.
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Or just don't enable the wifi and don't let it pick up an IP address. I really don't like that they have a mic.
When I need access to NetFlix, Amazon prime, etc, I use my Sony BluRay player instead, which gives me a better picture anyway for some reason (Samsung vs Sony maybe?) At least that divorces it from the television and is only on when I'm watching 'net shows.
It's relatively rare that a hard criminal will truly become reformed. First off, unless they actually want to reform, it'll never happen, they have to drive that change... and even then some just can't. So it's not always a case of difficulty; in many cases it's just impossible.
Still, I think they were kind of joking. I mean, it was an obvious joke someone was going to make.
I especially remember the story with Gil "Long Arm of the Law" Hamilton, and the wirehead that never bothered to leave his chair to eat, so he starved to death with a stupid grin on his face. That may well be a cautionary tale.
Well, time to use your Illudium Q36 Space Modulator and create a big boom on AT&T! ..nevermind..
Oh wait, that was Marvin.
But yeah, the headline might was well read, "Duh". Of course they did. Monopolies are bad, pure and simple. And they have a lousy history of ethics.
You're mistaking the action of walking forward with the act of actual progress.
Most insightful line I've read all month.
I'm still using SLES11 for our remaining Novell servers, for that reason. Can't last forever though.
Perhaps the article is actually referring to the "Hand of Glory", which purportedly conferred some level of camouflage (darkness) to the burglar schooled enough in the arcane arts to use one.
The new and improved models block IR now too.
..Or he's got a very dry sense of humor. Kind of hard to tell in print tho.
I realize that was probably a joke, but people say some crazy shit about PETA sometimes...
People in PETA say some crazy shit sometimes.
Well, that's it exactly. It's not entirely viable because the environmental and political resistance kept nuclear from becoming more widely accepted, and kept people from accepting more modernized nuclear technologies. Many people probably aren't comfortable with a plant in their "neighborhood". TBH, I'd have had second thoughts about living too close to one back then, I still remember the 3 mile island scare.
But also, 50 years ago, nuclear could not power your car, nor a fleet of trucks to deliver goods to market. Nor could everyone afford to convert to electrical heat in their homes.
I'm dying to know what the definition of "fart-rape" would be. It sounds worse than man-splaining.
I think that what he meant by "turning off the tap" was something more current and abrupt, not 100 years from now. And in that scenario, many people likely could die, without heat, or transport of food and medicine.
Agreed. It's apples and .. brussel sprouts, to use a better analogy. Tobacco has no real benefit to society, smoking is just an unnecessary, dirty personal habit.
Energy, OTOH, is absolutely critical to modern life, everything demands it, and the demand keeps increasing. 40, 30, even 20 years ago, there were no solid, widely available, viable alternatives. Solar technology was still highly inefficient.
So we're both right and wrong, as both situations happened and have photographs to prove it.
Vox's photograph appears to show adults or older children in that cage area, I don't see young children. And what should they do in any case, roam around free? Walk out of the building and just enter the country anyway? If it were US citizens sneaking over to Mexico or Panama or Ecuador, they'd be in a rusted, muddy, rat infested jail cell.
Of course, this isn't enough for Fox..I mean, Vox, who piously claim, " Rather than prove the administration’s point, the images of the McAllen facility only serve to further illustrate the "horrific" nature of its practices, (really? "horrific"? that's "horrific?") showing kids held in metal enclosures sprawled atop mattresses laid on a concrete floor, with little around them except flimsy space blankets."
They're large open areas with chainlink walls instead of drywall. So what? They also called it dark. Looks very well lit to me.
This is no worse than what Americans get when they have to huddle in a football stadium after a major hurricane or tornado.
It's likely not that cold there and space blankets are fairly effective at reflecting back body heat, maybe they're short on army blankets..
We can't stick everyone in a Red Roof Inn.
The later pictures look like any normal day care facility, far better than what they're accustomed to.
And naturally the children have IDs to scan, so they can keep track of what resources and meals are given out and to whom, as well as their location, name, etc.
Further, those conditions were the same, or worse under Obama, as the other photographs I linked to prove. No one screamed about them then.
Separating children from their genuine parents is one thing; that's awful and I'm not addressing that here; but complaining about the physical conditions is selective outrage for political purposes.
It's like the Puerto Rico/Maria hurricane BS narrative all over again. Oh, and everyone's favorite major, Carmen Yulin Cruz, is now under FBI investigation for - guess what?.. obstructing critical supplies during the crisis.
BZZZZT
Staged:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/18...
Obama era:
http://www.businessinsider.com...
wrong and wrong, you fucking dork.
Aaand there's the "troll" mod anyway, because somebody can't deal with facts that temper emotional appeal.
Here's another fact: in some of these cases, they're not even the children and parents. They've been paired up because the smuggling rings are aware that having children generally got you through the system because it played on these exact sympathies. Those people are essentially human trafficking.
Facts aside, it is sad that children are pulled from their parents, but almost no one is putting any blame for the parents for putting their kids in this situation in the first place as they break another country's laws. If they went legally to the right ingress points and declared they were looking for asylum, they'd be treated better.
Some guilty of a misdemeanor might spend several days in jail though, so not that different. Besides, these kids are not in "prison", it's the whole reason they're being separated. Nor are they locked in "cages", The photos showing chainlink enclosures were either from Obama's era, or the ones that were staged by demonstrators. They're in shelters. I'm sure it's scary for the kids to be separated from their parents, but then ostensibly so has their entire journey. (More so probably for the ones who arent' actually traveling with their parents but were used as legal shields). Congress needs to change the laws rather than keep forcing the executive branch to either enforce it or ignore it. Congress were the ones who wrote this in the first place.
I'll add that illegally entering a country is not equivalent to running a red light. A country cannot have an uncontrolled, porous border, you can't check for infectious diseases or criminal elements when everyone just jumps a fence, to the tune of 35,000 a month. And it's rude AF to the people who have gone through the legal channels to do it the right way, even if it does need an overhaul.
So.. the US is to blame for the corruption in South America, am I understanding clearly that this is your position?
Both parties are awful, but currently the party in power is Trumps one, so whatever hillary may or may not have done is academic at best.
Just because one party is "in power", or more accurately, has a small majority in congress, doesn't necessarily mean the other party has no power, and certainly doesn't preclude their influence. Hillary and Bernie are still very relevant.
Yup.. if you flip this around to say, 2011, there'd be cries of "Obstructionism!" But now the popular rallying cry is, "Resist!".
Because that's helpful!
But... Obama has already left office. Why are you still repeating your mantra?
Right...
The MSM (news and television, movies, etc.) and European media absolutely drooled and fawned over BHO (and his wife) for 8 whole years. The only criticism he ever got was from Fox News (where all he got was criticism, actually) but which was a drop in the ocean compared to the MSM.
Obama even got a Nobel prize just for getting elected. You could never criticize anything he said or did, else his army of sycophants deemed you "racist" and then ostracized you, and even today this cult of Obama claim there were no scandals despite the fact that were at least a dozen during his administration.
And now those same sycophants are projecting their own behaviors, as a negative, onto all Trump supporters, many of whom actually do exhibit the same cultish traits without the projection. In that sense, the two parallel each other: cultish following, huge egos.
It really is the Cult of Personality these days.
Apparently that button is not on a calculator.. ;)
Actually it's worse! $10 a month. I did plan on replacing it after all the original installation issues were ironed out, which they are.
This Netgear router is just abysmal as far as responsiveness and feature set goes.
While I can't argue your points, (English has more exceptions to the rules than rules, and the phonetics are totally screwed due to its being a mutt language), at least it's gender agnostic. The fact that latin languages give inanimate objects gender attributes irks the bejesus out of me.
The closest we get to that in English is referring to a boat as "she" or "her", which is more of an affectionate quality, not a hard grammar rule.