That didn't take long, a butthurt dweeb down-modded this already. Sorry cupcake, US citizens have been referred to as "Americans" by the rest of the civilized world for well over a century. "America" is not scientifically recognized as a single continent.
I didn't install him. I literally voted for someone not on the ballot. On principle. I didn't like any of the candidates enough to warrant my vote, so I decided to let the rest of the country decide, and let the chips fall where they may. But nonetheless, I voted, and for various congressman too.
Sorry to report that while slashdot customer service was courteous, it was overall unsatisfactory.
Regards first link: How does owning businesses in a country make you a "puppet" of that country's leader? By that logic, Trump was a puppet of Obama too. And a puppet of every leader of every other country in which he has an enterprise. Regards the second: Calling for an investigation is a process of looking for evidence, not evidence in and of itself.
Just because a republican senator calls for an investigation doesn't mean the guilty verdict is foregone conclusion - and even if he is guilty, just look at how Hillary slithered away from her email investigation, and that did actually turn up evidence.
I think insurance companies for this kind of thing are just a colossally bad idea. Now it positively screams "lucrative!" to the ransomers, as victims will be far more willing to "pay" since it's covered by insurance. The amount of ransom demanded will increase as well.
Instead they should be concerning themselves with better security, training, and backups. That wouldn't have to cost any more than the insurance premium.
I think maybe this whining is designed so that the police just can't win.
It's fine for citizens to video pretty much whatever they want and whenever they want, in public; but cops aren't allowed to too? So when the charges of police brutality start flying, the only evidence is a bystander's video that conveniently begins halfway into the altercation, and/or from around the corner, skewing all context? This was the whole point of the body cameras, to provide a record of an entire encounter to be used as evidence, at no small cost or inconvenience to law enforcement.
No, if you're out in public, you have no expectation of privacy unless it pertains to your personal space. Obviously no one can just walk up to you and look at the contents of your wallet or purse, but whatever actions you take in a public place are public actions.
Human eyes are lenses, human brains are recording devices; but they're not nearly as reliable or objective as electronic ones.
To be fair, the article did point out that coal plants are already built; solar still has a great need for installation and growth, thus a large part of the discrepancy in labor requirements it's still a relatively fledgling industry. What will be interesting to see is how well solar works out once it's established a more dominant presence on the grid. Some of that will depend on how often panels need to be repaired or replaced, but I'd like to see it do well.
Besides, I think that alternate energy has the potential to be to this decade (or the next) what the IT boom and the Internet was for the 1990s, an explosive tech industry which catalyzes huge economic benefits and employment. Not to mention cleaner air.
The thing is, politically, does it matter that he employed this technology? Does this bit of spectacle make his political positions any more valid or attractive? It shouldn't, because that would be incredibly shallow and superficial. It's just flash and bling. People are too easily mesmerized by shiny things. But then again, it works for Hollywood celebrities, so maybe he's on to something.
Ssshhh..keep it down, this doesn't fit the black & white mainstream narrative at all. Are you trying to sow chaos? Don't stress out those who aren't near a safe space.
Any reasonable person understood he meant radical Islamic terrorists and never considered all muslims terrorists, and used the term "muslims" far too broadly. At that stage of his campaign, these were suggestions to test the waters with, not promises. It was still crass and unreasonable to phrase it that way, yes, but not promised. A number of the true alt-right supremacist buttwipes took it to heart literally, as did the left-wing of course, but most of the more reasonable conservatives and independents never saw that as feasible or serious.
In any case, you're going to complain now that he's *not* banning 92% of muslims? The countries chosen for the current travel suspension were actually identified as highly dangerous and unstable nations by Obama in his Visa Waiver Act of 2015. Except Iran, I think.
One of my biggest beefs is with those apps whose windows can't be resized, and you're forced to scroll all over the place -horizontally as well as vertically- in a window barely the size of a post-it note.
Odd wording. Broadband is not denied to people on those grounds, it's because they reside in an area where the infrastructure just isn't in place yet (generally for financial, ROI reasons - poor neighborhoods are poor). This reads like I've had broadband but my next door neighbor was denied it because she's a woman; or Brazilian, or gay, or Buddhist, or some combination thereof.
I kind of think that's just his "serious" face, when he's trying to be solemn. Or he's itching to sit behind the desk at the Oval Office to feel more official.
Those are my sentiments. For the first time I can remember, we've elected a President with no political experience, but a lot of business experience. Ross Perot got somewhat close in 1992 I suppose. It could spell doom, or, we might discover that most politicians are as full of shit as we always joked or suspected that they were, and things actually get better with a non-politician in charge. We'll see.
One thing that makes me cringe is the gel that's supposed to reduce friction between the device and the heart. If that managed to dry up, I can't imagine what that'd feel like.. or at least, I don't want to.
Perhaps part of the reason you don't have to worry about it so badly is that numerous governments are constantly conducting investigations, surveillance, and operations to keep terrorism at bay. Nothing is 100% guaranteed of course. How much worse might it be if they did nothing? Much has been done to contain Al Qaeda and ISIS, or their supporters. It's a bit like saying, "Why am I paying my mechanic for all this maintenance upkeep on my car, it never breaks down". Is money being spent frivolously as well? It sure is, that's the nature of government services.
I suspect, however, physical damage and carnage are secondary concerns to the topmost levels of government; the primary reason governments want to squash terrorism is because of it's negative effect on Wall St. Markets are very high strung and touchy, and even a little terrorism goes a long way.
While on the subject though, I have to say the one big flaw in iPhone, to me, is iTunes, and lack of basic MTP capability for file transfers. You can copy your photos off your iPhone to desktop easily enough, but not the other way around, and no other file types without that crapware that is iTunes.. it's a pain. But otherwise, the thing functions simply, solidly and responsively.
Because that defines everything about the device? If that's all you care about, maybe you should just get a computer. I've rooted my Nexus 7, but it's no big deal to me; it's cool to run Cyanogen on it, but it still does the same stuff. My iPhone does what I need it to do too.
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That didn't take long, a butthurt dweeb down-modded this already. Sorry cupcake, US citizens have been referred to as "Americans" by the rest of the civilized world for well over a century. "America" is not scientifically recognized as a single continent.
There is no shortage of dweebs lately that think "America" is one continent and thereby want to divorce the term from meaning a USA citizen.
I didn't install him. I literally voted for someone not on the ballot. On principle. I didn't like any of the candidates enough to warrant my vote, so I decided to let the rest of the country decide, and let the chips fall where they may. But nonetheless, I voted, and for various congressman too.
Sorry to report that while slashdot customer service was courteous, it was overall unsatisfactory.
Regards first link: How does owning businesses in a country make you a "puppet" of that country's leader? By that logic, Trump was a puppet of Obama too. And a puppet of every leader of every other country in which he has an enterprise.
Regards the second: Calling for an investigation is a process of looking for evidence, not evidence in and of itself.
Just because a republican senator calls for an investigation doesn't mean the guilty verdict is foregone conclusion - and even if he is guilty, just look at how Hillary slithered away from her email investigation, and that did actually turn up evidence.
I think insurance companies for this kind of thing are just a colossally bad idea. Now it positively screams "lucrative!" to the ransomers, as victims will be far more willing to "pay" since it's covered by insurance. The amount of ransom demanded will increase as well.
Instead they should be concerning themselves with better security, training, and backups. That wouldn't have to cost any more than the insurance premium.
Two extremely biased leftist sites with an axe to grind. Would you accept an article from youngconservatives.com or Breitbart as trustworthy?
What in there actually contradicts what SuperKendall said?
Proof?
And by the way, that's sacrilege! ;) Mmmm.... beer.
Well, they could have just boiled the water, but I'm not entirely sure they knew that. They just knew that beer and wine was safer to drink.
They didn't always have the luxury of waiting though.
I think the ACLU or SJW should get involved now.
The SJW..? Is that a new agency?
I think maybe this whining is designed so that the police just can't win.
It's fine for citizens to video pretty much whatever they want and whenever they want, in public; but cops aren't allowed to too? So when the charges of police brutality start flying, the only evidence is a bystander's video that conveniently begins halfway into the altercation, and /or from around the corner, skewing all context? This was the whole point of the body cameras, to provide a record of an entire encounter to be used as evidence, at no small cost or inconvenience to law enforcement.
No, if you're out in public, you have no expectation of privacy unless it pertains to your personal space. Obviously no one can just walk up to you and look at the contents of your wallet or purse, but whatever actions you take in a public place are public actions.
Human eyes are lenses, human brains are recording devices; but they're not nearly as reliable or objective as electronic ones.
To be fair, the article did point out that coal plants are already built; solar still has a great need for installation and growth, thus a large part of the discrepancy in labor requirements it's still a relatively fledgling industry. What will be interesting to see is how well solar works out once it's established a more dominant presence on the grid. Some of that will depend on how often panels need to be repaired or replaced, but I'd like to see it do well.
Besides, I think that alternate energy has the potential to be to this decade (or the next) what the IT boom and the Internet was for the 1990s, an explosive tech industry which catalyzes huge economic benefits and employment. Not to mention cleaner air.
The thing is, politically, does it matter that he employed this technology? Does this bit of spectacle make his political positions any more valid or attractive? It shouldn't, because that would be incredibly shallow and superficial. It's just flash and bling. People are too easily mesmerized by shiny things. But then again, it works for Hollywood celebrities, so maybe he's on to something.
Or XXXX, like on the DiscWorld.
But that was Australia.
Ssshhh..keep it down, this doesn't fit the black & white mainstream narrative at all. Are you trying to sow chaos? Don't stress out those who aren't near a safe space.
Not only that, but just because the male to female ratio is high doesn't mean there isn't a lot of sex going on.. it is California, after all.
What a strange thing for Thiel to comment on or worry about.
Any reasonable person understood he meant radical Islamic terrorists and never considered all muslims terrorists, and used the term "muslims" far too broadly. At that stage of his campaign, these were suggestions to test the waters with, not promises. It was still crass and unreasonable to phrase it that way, yes, but not promised. A number of the true alt-right supremacist buttwipes took it to heart literally, as did the left-wing of course, but most of the more reasonable conservatives and independents never saw that as feasible or serious.
In any case, you're going to complain now that he's *not* banning 92% of muslims? The countries chosen for the current travel suspension were actually identified as highly dangerous and unstable nations by Obama in his Visa Waiver Act of 2015. Except Iran, I think.
One of my biggest beefs is with those apps whose windows can't be resized, and you're forced to scroll all over the place -horizontally as well as vertically- in a window barely the size of a post-it note.
Odd wording. Broadband is not denied to people on those grounds, it's because they reside in an area where the infrastructure just isn't in place yet (generally for financial, ROI reasons - poor neighborhoods are poor). This reads like I've had broadband but my next door neighbor was denied it because she's a woman; or Brazilian, or gay, or Buddhist, or some combination thereof.
I kind of think that's just his "serious" face, when he's trying to be solemn. Or he's itching to sit behind the desk at the Oval Office to feel more official.
Those are my sentiments. For the first time I can remember, we've elected a President with no political experience, but a lot of business experience. Ross Perot got somewhat close in 1992 I suppose. It could spell doom, or, we might discover that most politicians are as full of shit as we always joked or suspected that they were, and things actually get better with a non-politician in charge. We'll see.
One thing that makes me cringe is the gel that's supposed to reduce friction between the device and the heart. If that managed to dry up, I can't imagine what that'd feel like.. or at least, I don't want to.
Perhaps part of the reason you don't have to worry about it so badly is that numerous governments are constantly conducting investigations, surveillance, and operations to keep terrorism at bay. Nothing is 100% guaranteed of course. How much worse might it be if they did nothing? Much has been done to contain Al Qaeda and ISIS, or their supporters. It's a bit like saying, "Why am I paying my mechanic for all this maintenance upkeep on my car, it never breaks down". Is money being spent frivolously as well? It sure is, that's the nature of government services.
I suspect, however, physical damage and carnage are secondary concerns to the topmost levels of government; the primary reason governments want to squash terrorism is because of it's negative effect on Wall St. Markets are very high strung and touchy, and even a little terrorism goes a long way.
Well, there's always jailbreaking.
While on the subject though, I have to say the one big flaw in iPhone, to me, is iTunes, and lack of basic MTP capability for file transfers. You can copy your photos off your iPhone to desktop easily enough, but not the other way around, and no other file types without that crapware that is iTunes.. it's a pain. But otherwise, the thing functions simply, solidly and responsively.
Because that defines everything about the device? If that's all you care about, maybe you should just get a computer. I've rooted my Nexus 7, but it's no big deal to me; it's cool to run Cyanogen on it, but it still does the same stuff. My iPhone does what I need it to do too.