I agree. One point that I think gets overlooked is that with most polls predicting a seemingly easy Clinton win, I'd bet a whole lot of Clinton supporters didn't bother to vote. Maybe even 10,000 of them in Michigan.
Trump supporters love to talk about how the "lying" polls tried to keep Trump voters away by claiming he didn't have a chance, but I suspect it hurt Clinton more. I don't think the polls were dishonest. Didn't they all indicate margins of error?
I was fairly sure of a Clinton win too, up until sometime in October I started to have doubts.
This is why the electoral system helps keep peace. A large part of our current discord comes from trying to make a multi-cultural, continent-wide country have one-size fits all laws. That doesn't work - and it surely doesn't work when it's unequally enforced.
Here's an example we have the crazy scenario where it's close to illegal for one person to transport his legally owned firearms to another (and zero exception for people who make an honest mistake in how they transport these items).
Are you complaining that we have "one-size fits all laws" or that we don't?
In the case of guns, you might have a valid complaint since the 2nd Amendment should override the 10th. I'm not going to debate the 2nd Amendment here, but clearly the Amendments apply to all states. Isn't that "one-size fits all"? Or do you want the federal government to step in and impose a more specific version of "one-size fits all"?
Do you have any examples of a "one-size fits all" law that the Federal government is trying to impose on us? Mostly such laws have to do with our rights as outlined in the Bill of Rights and other amendments.
As an American who has freely moved from one state to another several times, I think the Senate is enough to balance the small and large states. The President should be elected by the people IMO. As it stands now, someone in Wyoming's vote counts more than mine and mine counts more than someone's in California.
The EC was a necessary compromise in our early days to hold the Union together and had a lot to do with slavery, just as the "three-fifths compromise" conceded that slaves were at least 60% human. Back then states also did act more independently and wielded more power, but over time the federal government has gained power and within that, the Presidency has gained power as well.
What's the point of even voting for President if you live in Texas or California? The state where I currently reside is at least sometimes considered "purple", but it's still quite predictably blue when it comes to voting for President.
I guarantee you if Trump had won the popular vote and Clinton had won the EC, Trump's supporters would be rioting in the streets. In places like the Fox News comments section you'll see some openly advocating for civil war so the socialists don't take over our country. I really hope they're trolling or that DHS is looking into those posts. Maybe they haven't noticed what civil war has done for Syria in the last few years.
If you don't think Trump supporters would be so hypocritical to turn on the EC, just look at their idol:
Here's 3 tweets from 2012 that Trump later deleted:
“He [Obama] lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election. We should have a revolution in this country!” (Nov. 6)
“The phoney [sic] electoral college made a laughing stock out of our nation. The loser one!” (Nov. 6)
“More votes equals a lossrevolution!” (Nov. 7)
Those should disturb you, not only because Trump is taking a different position and he wrote "one" instead on "won", but because Obama actually won both the popular vote AND the EC so it wasn't even an issue that year.
The fact that Warren is still viable after her "I'm an Indian. No I never claimed to be Indian. Hey look, I have less Indian than most Americans that proves I'm Indian, but I am not claiming to be Indian" stunt is proof how bat shit crazy they are.
This is not even a factor for me and I suspect most people who are likely to vote Dem in 2020. As I see it, her familial "legend" (history or myth, whatever) is that there was a Native American among her ancestors. Since her family is from Oklahoma this doesn't seem all the hard to believe.
And while she didn't keep it a secret, I never saw her making it a big issue. What I did see was Trump, without evidence (before any DNA test), calling her a "fake Indian" and calling her Pocahontas. IMO, that reflects very badly on Trump and at worst Warren was mistaken about her ancestry.
The rampant Anti-Semitism in the party is fracturing the Jewish part of their coalition.
I strongly disagree that there is "rampant Anti-Semitism" in the Democratic Party also.
Bernie Sanders (who heard was Jewish) said it well:
"Anti-Semitism is a hateful and dangerous ideology which must be vigorously opposed in the United States and around the world. We must not, however, equate anti-Semitism with legitimate criticism of the right-wing, Netanyahu government in Israel."
To suggest that there can be no criticism of Israel without being anti-Semitic is un-American. Why isn't there even a debate about the BILLIONS of dollars we give them every year?
Blacks are starting to figure out
Sure thing. On another forum someone claimed Trump had more support from African-Americans than any other Republican in the last 50 years!
I fact-checked him. Nixon actually holds that title in the 1972 election. In fact the only GOP candidates to get less of the black vote than Trump were both running against Obama. But you go ahead and keep spreading the propaganda and try to turn one minority against another.
And if you think coverage of the Covington kids and Jussie Smollett prove that racism doesn't exist among the far right, there's no hope for you.
You don't have to be a monopoly to engage in anti-competitive practices. I'm not accusing any particular corporation, but it is certainly possible with a large enough market share to abuse your power to run smaller businesses into the ground. I'm not an expert in anti-trust law either, so I can't say at what point they would get into trouble either.
But a taxi medallion is just one of many licenses granted to a large group of drivers. Sure, if some company owns all of them, they would be a monopoly but a medallion no more makes a monopoly than requiring a liquor license to sell booze makes liquor stores monopolies.
Even if you owned all the medallions for a particular taxi market, taxis are still highly regulated. I don't think you could just charge whatever you want or let your cabs fall into disrepair. You could certainly sell a few for an exorbitant amount of money though.
I accidentally came into this thread browsing at -1. That was a mistake, but browsing at zero isn't too bad if you just accept that there may be some garbage to skip over. You can usually tell within the first few words.
It sucks for ACs that are actually trying to contribute something worthwhile that a handful of abusive ACs lead most people just to ignore all of them.
And before you say they should just get an account, I'm no longer an AC.
I think when most people say they want to get rid of DST, they really mean they just want to get rid of having to adjust twice a year. I know better and I often make that mistake.
I only skimmed the article because I'm firmly entrenched in my views on adjusting my clocks (including my own physical one) twice a year. I'd sooner just have everyone use GMT. We'd just get used to the fact that in California the sun rises sometime around noon and that now Hawaii is a land of the midnight sun.
If one really wants to be a hipster, they should get back on MySpace right now. Just like vinyl and cassettes they're going to adopt the old social media site as their next fad sooner or later.
Then you can say you were back on MySpace before getting back on MySpace was cool.
I think how one uses social media determines if one is pathetic or not. An obsessive user is pathetic regardless of age although perhaps more understandable among the younger set.
If you are offended by someone taking a photo of your street, then don't live in the middle of a tourist attraction.
I'm guessing this has only become a major problem in the last 10-20 years. There may have been a few tourists snapping pictures even before that, but probably not as many or as obnoxious about it.
If you had left out the insults I might have modded you up.
Next time keep it short, simple and non-toxic:
"The green lobby is so fanatically anti-nuclear" - That doesn't have anything to do with coal ash over the last 50 years, which the "green lobby" has fought the entire time.
At least he said "lobby" and didn't accuse all environmentalists. I'm as much of a tree-hugging dirt-worshiper as the next hippy which is why I've always thought we should have more nuclear power. There are too many extremists among us and in many ways they are just as idiotic as the people "rolling coal" in their over-sized pickup trucks.
Some "environmental activists" are just terrorists and those who aren't need to start thinking beyond bumper-sticker slogans and panda bear pictures, especially if they want to be taken seriously.
"NO NUKES" isn't exactly a very persuasive argument. I don't think trying to discredit the source is very persuasive either. Even if Earth Justice is anti-nuclear does that mean there isn't contamination from coal ash sites all over the place?
Yes, I can. The flu epidemic, for one. That was easy. Of course, it's harder to remember Obama's because NONE of them were in the least bit controversial.
I recently reviewed them ALL as declarations of national emergencies have been a subject of the news recently and it WAS covered by the Fake News MSM.
NONE of those national emergencies were used as a means of subverting the will and power of Congress.
Most of them actually simply froze assets of bad actors in countries like Yemen or the Central African Republic.
BTW, why does Trump believe the US is so weak that we need Saudi Arabia's money? How many jobs are our arms sales actually creating?
“It’s $110 billion. I believe it’s the largest order ever made. It’s 450,000 jobs. It’s the best equipment in the world.”
— President Trump, in remarks to reporters, Oct. 13, 2018
“$110 billion in purchasing. It’s 500,000 jobs, American jobs. Everything’s made here.”
— Trump, in an interview with Trish Regan of Fox Business News, Oct. 16
“Who are we hurting? It’s 500,000 jobs. It’ll be ultimately $110 billion. It’s the biggest order in the history of our country from an outside military.”
— Trump, in an interview with Stuart Varney of Fox Business News, Oct. 17
“I would prefer that we don’t use, as retribution, canceling $110 billion worth of work, which means 600,000 jobs."
— Trump, during a defense roundtable at Luke Air Force Base, Oct. 19
“So now if you’re talking about — that was $110 billion — you know, you’re talking about over a million jobs. You know, I’d rather keep the million jobs, and I’d rather find another solution.”
— Trump, in additional remarks to reporters after the roundtable, Oct. 19
The truth is that it's more like thousands of jobs...maybe even more than 10,000. And before you say if we don't sell weapons to them, they'll just buy from Russia, China and maybe even India do you REALLY think they can get parts and service for all their American made aircraft? Do those countries sell THAAD systems? Is the security of our nation really dependent on supporting war crimes in Yemen?
It's absolutely absurd that anyone believes a word that Trump says.
"The reason I do not want military drills with South Korea is to save hundreds of millions of dollars for the U.S. for which we are not reimbursed," - Donald Trump
services powered by the cloud will cease to function in June. Band users should still be able to record daily steps, heart rate, and workouts, alongside activity data, sleep tracking, and alarm functionality
Of course, maybe they'll still track you but just not give you the benefit of accessing that data.
I have a different brand of "fitness tracker" and all I want to do is track steps, heart rate and sleep.
Using Obama as an excuse to defend any and every action by Trump is not working.
I voted against Obama twice. I suspect die-hard Trump supporters were too busy watching reality TV in 2008 and 2012 to even know there was an election.
And while Obama did have his pen and phone, Trump is signing EOs at a faster pace and Obama never signed an EO or declared a national emergency just to bypass the power of Congress to control the purse strings.
which allows Trump to do that and more
Oh really? So, eventually you expect us to devolve into a dictatorship where we still "officially" have a Constitution and separation of powers, but in practice we don't at all.
you called us racist instead.
Nobody called anyone a racist (excepting internet trolls) just for criticizing Obama, but the fact is there was a lot of racism directed towards him and there still is.
Except he's the devil the voters know...
Interesting. I've heard many Trump supporters say he was the devil we DIDN'T know in 2016 and that's why they voted for him. They knew what to expect from the career politicians so they gambled on Trump. Except some of us knew who Trump was too and I don't mean from his TV show either. That's why we voted against him.
In honor of Earth Day on April 22, how about a clean thought: The music industry could eliminate more than 18.5 million pounds of trash each year if it only would change the way it packages compact discs. That is, roughly, the same amount of garbage created daily by a population the size of Missouri’s.
Daily Missouri Garbage Creation is apparently a unit of measurement we should all be familiar with.
Since April 1, when Canada stopped using longboxes, Americans have been the only people in the world who have to pollute for their music. The United States is unlikely to follow Canada’s lead in the near future. None of the major forces in the American retail market for music, the world’s largest, want to bear the costs of changing the way CDs are sold.
That bolded part seems a bit unfair given that as you point out the case alone has an environmental cost.
Here's an example of "good presentation" in CD packaging:
You got me thinking. Would a music box be considered the first digital music? Either it plucks something to make a sound or it doesn't - it's a simply off or on.
With rare exceptions my experience has been similar.
Except for crappy CD-Rs, I've only managed to scratch fewer than a half-dozen enough to affect their playability.
I can't remember which album it was, but one of the early ones I bought had a scratch right out of the case that caused it to skip. I tried to exchange it and they stonewalled me claiming that Sony wouldn't put out a faulty product or some such nonsense and I guess I was too young and stupid to raise hell about it.
Let's all have a good laugh at the idea of Sony's QA being perfect.
It's a wasteland for sure. No https, but no ads either (well, 2 static images with links to "visit our sponsors").
If you do happen to sign up send me an e-mail in the game (player #7417) and I can hook you up with weapons and armor.
If you want to mess with them, script your gameplay and see if the admins are paying enough attention to ban you. I think there's only 1 left and I don't think he's paying much attention at all now.
It may not make it die out, but I don't care if a small subset of people feel they're being "persecuted".
We certainly have the right of free speech to criticize them and their ideas. We can't give in to ideas just because someone plays the victim. At the same time, let's try to be fair about it so they don't have any credible reason to play the victim.
I don't think not selling certain things makes anyone persecuted. Perhaps the poor authors? No, not even them.
And can you explain to me why you think anything Trump does can be excused with a "But Obama"?
Some of us voted against both of them.
It emerged late Thursday that the Justice Department had secretly seized years of email and phone records of a New York Times reporter in connection with a leak investigation. This marks a clear escalation of the Trump administration’s attempts to intimidate journalists and their sources. In doing so, it seems that the Justice Department may have violated its own policies for obtaining reporters’ communications — strict standards that are in place because of the importance the Constitution places on freedom of the press.
True, but other people have votes -and theirs count just as much as yours. And votes lead to laws, and laws do affect you.
It would be so much nicer if only people who agreed with me voted, but regardless of any tech companies other people who are "wrong" (at least IMO) are going to be influenced by others I disagree with.
Before the internet most people were influenced by the major newspaper in their town or if they were lucky they got to choose between a couple of them. If they didn't report it, maybe you could hear about it from somewhere else. Or maybe you'd never hear about it. (The biggest difference between the 2 papers where I grew up is one delivered in the morning and the other delivered in the afternoon/evening).
If their editorials put a certain slant on things (like endorsing candidates) people were influenced by that. They picked and chose which letters to the editor to publish and they even edited them.
I just don't see how you can force someone to publish without violating their free speech.
Slashdot Mirror
In other words, don't be stupid.
Telling people not to be stupid never works.
And no doubt some people think I'm "stupid". I don't think I am, but the way I get modded sometimes suggest others do.
I agree. One point that I think gets overlooked is that with most polls predicting a seemingly easy Clinton win, I'd bet a whole lot of Clinton supporters didn't bother to vote. Maybe even 10,000 of them in Michigan.
Trump supporters love to talk about how the "lying" polls tried to keep Trump voters away by claiming he didn't have a chance, but I suspect it hurt Clinton more. I don't think the polls were dishonest. Didn't they all indicate margins of error?
I was fairly sure of a Clinton win too, up until sometime in October I started to have doubts.
This is why the electoral system helps keep peace. A large part of our current discord comes from trying to make a multi-cultural, continent-wide country have one-size fits all laws. That doesn't work - and it surely doesn't work when it's unequally enforced.
Here's an example we have the crazy scenario where it's close to illegal for one person to transport his legally owned firearms to another (and zero exception for people who make an honest mistake in how they transport these items).
Are you complaining that we have "one-size fits all laws" or that we don't?
In the case of guns, you might have a valid complaint since the 2nd Amendment should override the 10th. I'm not going to debate the 2nd Amendment here, but clearly the Amendments apply to all states. Isn't that "one-size fits all"? Or do you want the federal government to step in and impose a more specific version of "one-size fits all"?
Do you have any examples of a "one-size fits all" law that the Federal government is trying to impose on us? Mostly such laws have to do with our rights as outlined in the Bill of Rights and other amendments.
As an American who has freely moved from one state to another several times, I think the Senate is enough to balance the small and large states. The President should be elected by the people IMO. As it stands now, someone in Wyoming's vote counts more than mine and mine counts more than someone's in California.
The EC was a necessary compromise in our early days to hold the Union together and had a lot to do with slavery, just as the "three-fifths compromise" conceded that slaves were at least 60% human. Back then states also did act more independently and wielded more power, but over time the federal government has gained power and within that, the Presidency has gained power as well.
What's the point of even voting for President if you live in Texas or California? The state where I currently reside is at least sometimes considered "purple", but it's still quite predictably blue when it comes to voting for President.
I guarantee you if Trump had won the popular vote and Clinton had won the EC, Trump's supporters would be rioting in the streets. In places like the Fox News comments section you'll see some openly advocating for civil war so the socialists don't take over our country. I really hope they're trolling or that DHS is looking into those posts. Maybe they haven't noticed what civil war has done for Syria in the last few years.
If you don't think Trump supporters would be so hypocritical to turn on the EC, just look at their idol:
Here's 3 tweets from 2012 that Trump later deleted:
“He [Obama] lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election. We should have a revolution in this country!” (Nov. 6)
“The phoney [sic] electoral college made a laughing stock out of our nation. The loser one!” (Nov. 6)
“More votes equals a lossrevolution!” (Nov. 7)
Those should disturb you, not only because Trump is taking a different position and he wrote "one" instead on "won", but because Obama actually won both the popular vote AND the EC so it wasn't even an issue that year.
He didn't delete these:
We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!
The fact that Warren is still viable after her "I'm an Indian. No I never claimed to be Indian. Hey look, I have less Indian than most Americans that proves I'm Indian, but I am not claiming to be Indian" stunt is proof how bat shit crazy they are.
This is not even a factor for me and I suspect most people who are likely to vote Dem in 2020. As I see it, her familial "legend" (history or myth, whatever) is that there was a Native American among her ancestors. Since her family is from Oklahoma this doesn't seem all the hard to believe.
And while she didn't keep it a secret, I never saw her making it a big issue. What I did see was Trump, without evidence (before any DNA test), calling her a "fake Indian" and calling her Pocahontas. IMO, that reflects very badly on Trump and at worst Warren was mistaken about her ancestry.
The rampant Anti-Semitism in the party is fracturing the Jewish part of their coalition.
I strongly disagree that there is "rampant Anti-Semitism" in the Democratic Party also.
Bernie Sanders (who heard was Jewish) said it well:
"Anti-Semitism is a hateful and dangerous ideology which must be vigorously opposed in the United States and around the world. We must not, however, equate anti-Semitism with legitimate criticism of the right-wing, Netanyahu government in Israel."
To suggest that there can be no criticism of Israel without being anti-Semitic is un-American. Why isn't there even a debate about the BILLIONS of dollars we give them every year?
Blacks are starting to figure out
Sure thing. On another forum someone claimed Trump had more support from African-Americans than any other Republican in the last 50 years!
I fact-checked him. Nixon actually holds that title in the 1972 election. In fact the only GOP candidates to get less of the black vote than Trump were both running against Obama. But you go ahead and keep spreading the propaganda and try to turn one minority against another.
And if you think coverage of the Covington kids and Jussie Smollett prove that racism doesn't exist among the far right, there's no hope for you.
Some prominent antitrust experts think the violation is clear. I'd suggest reading Tim Wu's "The Curse of Bigness" for more background.
Only $10.39 on Amazon, which also happened to be the top Google result
Only $9 for the Kindle version.
The Washington Post even gave it a good review.
You don't have to be a monopoly to engage in anti-competitive practices. I'm not accusing any particular corporation, but it is certainly possible with a large enough market share to abuse your power to run smaller businesses into the ground. I'm not an expert in anti-trust law either, so I can't say at what point they would get into trouble either.
But a taxi medallion is just one of many licenses granted to a large group of drivers. Sure, if some company owns all of them, they would be a monopoly but a medallion no more makes a monopoly than requiring a liquor license to sell booze makes liquor stores monopolies.
Even if you owned all the medallions for a particular taxi market, taxis are still highly regulated. I don't think you could just charge whatever you want or let your cabs fall into disrepair. You could certainly sell a few for an exorbitant amount of money though.
I accidentally came into this thread browsing at -1. That was a mistake, but browsing at zero isn't too bad if you just accept that there may be some garbage to skip over. You can usually tell within the first few words.
It sucks for ACs that are actually trying to contribute something worthwhile that a handful of abusive ACs lead most people just to ignore all of them.
And before you say they should just get an account, I'm no longer an AC.
Or implementing it for all 12 months, not just 8.
I think when most people say they want to get rid of DST, they really mean they just want to get rid of having to adjust twice a year. I know better and I often make that mistake.
I only skimmed the article because I'm firmly entrenched in my views on adjusting my clocks (including my own physical one) twice a year. I'd sooner just have everyone use GMT. We'd just get used to the fact that in California the sun rises sometime around noon and that now Hawaii is a land of the midnight sun.
If one really wants to be a hipster, they should get back on MySpace right now. Just like vinyl and cassettes they're going to adopt the old social media site as their next fad sooner or later.
Then you can say you were back on MySpace before getting back on MySpace was cool.
I think how one uses social media determines if one is pathetic or not. An obsessive user is pathetic regardless of age although perhaps more understandable among the younger set.
Do real friends bring apples?
If you are offended by someone taking a photo of your street, then don't live in the middle of a tourist attraction.
I'm guessing this has only become a major problem in the last 10-20 years. There may have been a few tourists snapping pictures even before that, but probably not as many or as obnoxious about it.
Since I had to google it and I still have the tab open:
The Chinese Room Argument
If you had left out the insults I might have modded you up.
Next time keep it short, simple and non-toxic:
"The green lobby is so fanatically anti-nuclear" - That doesn't have anything to do with coal ash over the last 50 years, which the "green lobby" has fought the entire time.
At least he said "lobby" and didn't accuse all environmentalists. I'm as much of a tree-hugging dirt-worshiper as the next hippy which is why I've always thought we should have more nuclear power. There are too many extremists among us and in many ways they are just as idiotic as the people "rolling coal" in their over-sized pickup trucks.
Some "environmental activists" are just terrorists and those who aren't need to start thinking beyond bumper-sticker slogans and panda bear pictures, especially if they want to be taken seriously.
"NO NUKES" isn't exactly a very persuasive argument. I don't think trying to discredit the source is very persuasive either. Even if Earth Justice is anti-nuclear does that mean there isn't contamination from coal ash sites all over the place?
Yes, I can. The flu epidemic, for one. That was easy. Of course, it's harder to remember Obama's because NONE of them were in the least bit controversial.
I recently reviewed them ALL as declarations of national emergencies have been a subject of the news recently and it WAS covered by the Fake News MSM .
NONE of those national emergencies were used as a means of subverting the will and power of Congress.
Most of them actually simply froze assets of bad actors in countries like Yemen or the Central African Republic.
BTW, why does Trump believe the US is so weak that we need Saudi Arabia's money? How many jobs are our arms sales actually creating?
“It’s $110 billion. I believe it’s the largest order ever made. It’s 450,000 jobs. It’s the best equipment in the world.”
— President Trump, in remarks to reporters, Oct. 13, 2018
“$110 billion in purchasing. It’s 500,000 jobs, American jobs. Everything’s made here.”
— Trump, in an interview with Trish Regan of Fox Business News, Oct. 16
“Who are we hurting? It’s 500,000 jobs. It’ll be ultimately $110 billion. It’s the biggest order in the history of our country from an outside military.”
— Trump, in an interview with Stuart Varney of Fox Business News, Oct. 17
“I would prefer that we don’t use, as retribution, canceling $110 billion worth of work, which means 600,000 jobs."
— Trump, during a defense roundtable at Luke Air Force Base, Oct. 19
“So now if you’re talking about — that was $110 billion — you know, you’re talking about over a million jobs. You know, I’d rather keep the million jobs, and I’d rather find another solution.”
— Trump, in additional remarks to reporters after the roundtable, Oct. 19
The truth is that it's more like thousands of jobs...maybe even more than 10,000. And before you say if we don't sell weapons to them, they'll just buy from Russia, China and maybe even India do you REALLY think they can get parts and service for all their American made aircraft? Do those countries sell THAAD systems? Is the security of our nation really dependent on supporting war crimes in Yemen?
It's absolutely absurd that anyone believes a word that Trump says.
"The reason I do not want military drills with South Korea is to save hundreds of millions of dollars for the U.S. for which we are not reimbursed," - Donald Trump
FACT: It's more like $14 million
I'll try to cite some NON-MSM sources for that:
Canceling Joint Exercise with South Korea Saved $14 Million: DoD
The Pentagon says next month's Freedom Guardian exercise with South Korea would have cost about $14 million, one month after President Trump said canceling the exercise would "save a fortune."
‘War Games’ Trump Said Were Too Expensive Cost Less Than a Fighter Jet
Pentagon estimates U.S.-South Korea military exercises, canceled as too provocative and expensive, would have cost $14 million
In a way, they may have made it better:
services powered by the cloud will cease to function in June. Band users should still be able to record daily steps, heart rate, and workouts, alongside activity data, sleep tracking, and alarm functionality
Of course, maybe they'll still track you but just not give you the benefit of accessing that data.
I have a different brand of "fitness tracker" and all I want to do is track steps, heart rate and sleep.
Using Obama as an excuse to defend any and every action by Trump is not working.
I voted against Obama twice. I suspect die-hard Trump supporters were too busy watching reality TV in 2008 and 2012 to even know there was an election.
And while Obama did have his pen and phone, Trump is signing EOs at a faster pace and Obama never signed an EO or declared a national emergency just to bypass the power of Congress to control the purse strings.
which allows Trump to do that and more
Oh really? So, eventually you expect us to devolve into a dictatorship where we still "officially" have a Constitution and separation of powers, but in practice we don't at all.
you called us racist instead.
Nobody called anyone a racist (excepting internet trolls) just for criticizing Obama, but the fact is there was a lot of racism directed towards him and there still is.
Except he's the devil the voters know...
Interesting. I've heard many Trump supporters say he was the devil we DIDN'T know in 2016 and that's why they voted for him. They knew what to expect from the career politicians so they gambled on Trump. Except some of us knew who Trump was too and I don't mean from his TV show either. That's why we voted against him.
Remember the controversy of the "longbox"?
What's with the CD longbox? -- We look into the wasteful packaging of CDs (published April 20, 1990)
In honor of Earth Day on April 22, how about a clean thought: The music industry could eliminate more than 18.5 million pounds of trash each year if it only would change the way it packages compact discs. That is, roughly, the same amount of garbage created daily by a population the size of Missouri’s.
Daily Missouri Garbage Creation is apparently a unit of measurement we should all be familiar with.
Since April 1, when Canada stopped using longboxes, Americans have been the only people in the world who have to pollute for their music. The United States is unlikely to follow Canada’s lead in the near future. None of the major forces in the American retail market for music, the world’s largest, want to bear the costs of changing the way CDs are sold.
That bolded part seems a bit unfair given that as you point out the case alone has an environmental cost.
Here's an example of "good presentation" in CD packaging:
Spiral-Bound Booklet Format
Of course it's not going to fit in a whole lot of CD shelves and since it's thin cardboard you'll have to be nicer to it if you want to keep it nice.
You got me thinking. Would a music box be considered the first digital music? Either it plucks something to make a sound or it doesn't - it's a simply off or on.
Same thing with a player piano.
With rare exceptions my experience has been similar.
Except for crappy CD-Rs, I've only managed to scratch fewer than a half-dozen enough to affect their playability.
I can't remember which album it was, but one of the early ones I bought had a scratch right out of the case that caused it to skip. I tried to exchange it and they stonewalled me claiming that Sony wouldn't put out a faulty product or some such nonsense and I guess I was too young and stupid to raise hell about it.
Let's all have a good laugh at the idea of Sony's QA being perfect.
Okay, but don't expect much. It's just clicking links.
http://wastelandwar.com/regist...
(If you use that link I get 2 fuel!)
It's a wasteland for sure. No https, but no ads either (well, 2 static images with links to "visit our sponsors").
If you do happen to sign up send me an e-mail in the game (player #7417) and I can hook you up with weapons and armor.
If you want to mess with them, script your gameplay and see if the admins are paying enough attention to ban you. I think there's only 1 left and I don't think he's paying much attention at all now.
P. J. O'Rourke said something similar.
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
He also said "The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."
Wouldn't convincing them through "information and education" have the end result of "removing all members from existence"?
Or did the AC mean something more like a "final solution"?
It may not make it die out, but I don't care if a small subset of people feel they're being "persecuted".
We certainly have the right of free speech to criticize them and their ideas. We can't give in to ideas just because someone plays the victim. At the same time, let's try to be fair about it so they don't have any credible reason to play the victim.
I don't think not selling certain things makes anyone persecuted. Perhaps the poor authors? No, not even them.
Are you sure Trump hasn't "spied on them"?
How the Justice Department's Seizure of a Reporter's Email Records Subverts the Free Press
And can you explain to me why you think anything Trump does can be excused with a "But Obama"?
Some of us voted against both of them.
It emerged late Thursday that the Justice Department had secretly seized years of email and phone records of a New York Times reporter in connection with a leak investigation. This marks a clear escalation of the Trump administration’s attempts to intimidate journalists and their sources. In doing so, it seems that the Justice Department may have violated its own policies for obtaining reporters’ communications — strict standards that are in place because of the importance the Constitution places on freedom of the press.
True, but other people have votes -and theirs count just as much as yours. And votes lead to laws, and laws do affect you.
It would be so much nicer if only people who agreed with me voted, but regardless of any tech companies other people who are "wrong" (at least IMO) are going to be influenced by others I disagree with.
Before the internet most people were influenced by the major newspaper in their town or if they were lucky they got to choose between a couple of them. If they didn't report it, maybe you could hear about it from somewhere else. Or maybe you'd never hear about it. (The biggest difference between the 2 papers where I grew up is one delivered in the morning and the other delivered in the afternoon/evening).
If their editorials put a certain slant on things (like endorsing candidates) people were influenced by that. They picked and chose which letters to the editor to publish and they even edited them.
I just don't see how you can force someone to publish without violating their free speech.