Ex-pats have no right to be politically active either in their host society or with regard to the society they came from. They are "second class" for precisely the fact that they have left the country where they held/hold citizenship and have taken no steps to become a citizen of their host society and submit to its norms and adopt its culture, fully. That's because whether you're a Turk in the Netherlands or a white American in Mexico or Asia, you are nothing more than a guest. Therefore, you have no right to participate in the workings of your host and your political activity with regard to your former homeland is tolerable only to the extent it creates no disturbances for your host.
I see a lot of people on the left angry about accusations of fake news directed at the media, but the Pope is a good example of that.
As a victim.
I am a Protestant and don't have heaping doses of respect for this Pope (his predecessor was significantly better IMO), but come on. The media frequently deliberately misquotes this Pope to make him sound like the Pope they want him to be.
We're entering a point where the state will have to start prosecuting the media directly for the content of their speech because they are damn near demanding a right to do stuff like this:
Headline: Mr. Smith and so hates $GROUP His quote: I can see why some might want to harm them, but I don't believe in killing them. Their summary: Mr. Smith said "[I]... believe in killing them."
Let's see. He could have created programs aimed at helping get citizens of those countries access to national-level benefits plans. If he did that with the VA, he'd literally never have to buy another drink again whenever he visits the US because every veteran would be shoving alcohol in his face in gratitude.
But nope, gotta help them refugees. Even though many of them aren't actually refugees at all, but economic migrants.
They have long focused on iOS products to the detriment of OS X because that is what happens when you have a typical MBA who chases raw revenues and a designer calling the shots. Numbers and shiny. Jobs never neglected the Mac in a serious way because iOS needs a moat on the PC side. The Surface Studio should have been a ground-shaking, holy fucking shit moment at Apple, but I'd bet $100 it was laughed at rather than taken as the deadly serious portent of things to come for how Microsoft is coming after Apple by leapfrogging them.
If I had a kid going into STEM, I'd buy them an Asus or Alienware laptop with a Linux on it and a Windows VM. If they were undecided, I'd buy them the Chromebook until they declare a major. At no point would I look at Apple's lineup and say "a $1k-$2.5k soldered together toy with an oft neglected Unix OS is the right starting laptop."
I can't believe that no law firm has tried to organize a shareholder lawsuit yet. I bet it would be fascinating to see the discovery period when Twitter has to show how much it spent in money and manpower to implement these features at the behest of SJWs and then explain to a jury how they planned to meet their responsibilities to shareholders by openly attacking half of their potential users. It is not an exaggeration to say that this is now in the same sport, if not league, as what was done to Nokia.
FFS, they have been suspending accounts with literally no activity, but Islamic extremists are nowhere near as policed as "trolls."
It'll be even more lulz-inducing when the plaintiffs bring up the countless examples of Twitter tolerating trending hash tags calling for the extermination of white people, the assassination of the President and such and then say "Mr. Dorsey, please explain how you protected Twitter's good will, reputation in the market through this obvious double standard where you tolerated literally felonious speech in violation of the terms of service.
Lower skilled Americans cannot compete with people who are happy to make half the prevailing wage for a job. Even some of the skilled sectors like construction are hit hard these days. A job that an American would want $20/hour to do can easily be run down to $8-$10 by an illegal.
Maybe you're fine with that. Maybe you're a libertarian who thinks that no one owes that worker a decent, prevailing wage that is protected from third world mass competition. Alright, so you don't give a damn about his well-being, don't complain if he returns the favor and won't even piss on you if you're on fire, begging for help.
Twitter is out of control and it's obvious that there is no leadership at the helm. They're banning accounts left and right, and typically without any serious reason. Or when they do it's over something mildly offensive. Meanwhile Twitter leadership acts like 12k calls to assassinate the President don't constitute unimpeachable grounds to bring down the banhammer.
So remember kids, you can't say "I hate n----s" on Twitter if your account comes off as white. That's a violation of their community standards, but committing a federal felony in what you write, that's Twitter's idea of protected speech.
The only question at this point is who is dumber, the board or shareholders, as no one is bring Twitter into court to explain why Twitter is letting inmates run the asylum and just as important... how many tens of millions of wasted engineering manhours have been wasted on this bullshit.
If you're poor, you can go to BestBuy and buy a clean, never used PC laptop for $200. You can get a Chrome Book for even cheaper than that. There is simply no reason to buy a used computer except from someone you know and trust because you can find literally almost anything, brand new, at a good price point.
But but old hardware? How about you just recycle it?The alternative is that you give it to someone, it breaks not much later and ends up in a landfill instead of at least probably getting shredded and its materials repurposed.
When a product can be literally rendered unusable through this level of epic fail, it stands to reason that the product was so defective that the customer could not rely on it. Warranty period or not, this is the sort of thing that the government should say "it should never have been built this way, fix it" since we're not talking about the S1 here.
English, in most cases, falls under an umbrella of majors that can be politely called "Barista Studies." Outside of college, it will be the engineers shouldering a disproportionate percentage (relative to majors in Barista Studies) of the tax burden to support, among other things, the university system. Now you want us to not only pay our way more, but pay more and more taxes to subsidize your Barista Studies degree? I don't think so. This isn't Animal Farm, and we sure as Hell won't play the role of Boxer.
Being removed from the GSA schedule for goods and services should be a good wake up call pour encourager les autres. After all, a vendor that is essentially angling itself as a foreign company shouldn't expect federal contracts.
One might think government data would all be cut 'n' dried and not subject to manipulation, but I personally remember when government data back early in the Reagan presidency went from reporting nearly 15% unemployment nationwide to well under 6% by redefining what "unemployed" meant. So . . . has government data ever been trustworthy, and is it still so?
Under Obama, we stopped counting people as unemployed if they gave up looking for a job. Such people are difficult to track is the argument. Oh really, that's a rational argument for moving the goal post? Controlling for some variables is really hard, so let's not? Well fuck me, I guess we're all Barbie now and "Math is hard!!!"
The inflation measurements have long been known to exclude food and fuel, the two most inflation-affected consumer goods. The food pyramid was laughably unscientific when it was created. Need I go on?
You got Trump in no small part because of this faux earnest, "we're just interested in the facts, sir." No, you're not. You're as fucking dishonest as Ellen DeGeneres when she said "8 years, no scandal." Please ignore Fast and Furious, the fact that Clinton intentionally lied about the known motivations for the attack on Benghazi, political appointees at the IRS targeting conservative groups, blowing up a 16 year old kid with drone and so much more.
If the phone isn't getting even security updates as they come out the OS version it runs, it's not a deal. Google needs to do two things to make it a real deal at any price:
1. Force the carriers to let you update it as they release patches. 2. Actually support the OS.
Having to replace a phone to get security updates is not a deal. It's just an environmentally-unsound model for moving cheap hardware.
The problem with Snowden is that Snowden released at least two very different types of data:
1. Data that shows potentially or actually illegal domestic actions.
2. Data that shows operational details on entirely legal foreign operations.
There is a good case to be made about the former, but there is absolutely no legal or moral basis for a pardon on the latter. What Snowden did was not stop at reporting likely law-breaking, but essentially depantsed the NSA WRT its operational capabilities and techniques. That would be like waving a case like some village massacre in one hand and then holding a binder in the other hand that happens to contain the operational status of every military unit in theater, along with personnel names, the whole shebang that would allow an enemy to greatly step up their game.
No, for the 2nd point Snowden really has to go to prison if he comes back, and he knows it.
Calling Cook the Ballmer of Apple is an insult to Ballmer because at least Ballmer consistently raised revenues and profits and demonstrated a deep commitment to Microsoft's core markets.
The fact is that putting Steve Ballmer in charge of Apple now would make more sense than keeping Cook. Ballmer would probably have a better shot of resurrecting the Mac's nose-diving reputation than Cook at this point.
They could have easily charged $100 if it had every NES game on there. To get any money all for games that old would/should be like manna from Heaven to the companies that own the IP.
The company that has made backward compatibility a core business principle jettisoning its highly mature command line interface? Only in the fevered dreams of people who still call them stuff like M$...
Apple is making Gab jump through flaming hoops to get their mobile app published. They've repeatedly come up with new reasons that are utterly nonsensical like concern trolling about porn, abusive users, harassment, etc. despite a) allowing Twitter, Tumblr, etc. and b) those allowed services having notorious problems that are cheerfully ignored by Apple. In fact, Apple is all but saying "if your site doesn't work the way we want, your users cannot have an app." One of their responses.
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Ex-pats have no right to be politically active either in their host society or with regard to the society they came from. They are "second class" for precisely the fact that they have left the country where they held/hold citizenship and have taken no steps to become a citizen of their host society and submit to its norms and adopt its culture, fully. That's because whether you're a Turk in the Netherlands or a white American in Mexico or Asia, you are nothing more than a guest. Therefore, you have no right to participate in the workings of your host and your political activity with regard to your former homeland is tolerable only to the extent it creates no disturbances for your host.
Sorta off topic, but sorta related...
I see a lot of people on the left angry about accusations of fake news directed at the media, but the Pope is a good example of that.
As a victim.
I am a Protestant and don't have heaping doses of respect for this Pope (his predecessor was significantly better IMO), but come on. The media frequently deliberately misquotes this Pope to make him sound like the Pope they want him to be.
We're entering a point where the state will have to start prosecuting the media directly for the content of their speech because they are damn near demanding a right to do stuff like this:
Headline: Mr. Smith and so hates $GROUP
His quote: I can see why some might want to harm them, but I don't believe in killing them.
Their summary: Mr. Smith said "[I]... believe in killing them."
Let's see. He could have created programs aimed at helping get citizens of those countries access to national-level benefits plans. If he did that with the VA, he'd literally never have to buy another drink again whenever he visits the US because every veteran would be shoving alcohol in his face in gratitude.
But nope, gotta help them refugees. Even though many of them aren't actually refugees at all, but economic migrants.
They have long focused on iOS products to the detriment of OS X because that is what happens when you have a typical MBA who chases raw revenues and a designer calling the shots. Numbers and shiny. Jobs never neglected the Mac in a serious way because iOS needs a moat on the PC side. The Surface Studio should have been a ground-shaking, holy fucking shit moment at Apple, but I'd bet $100 it was laughed at rather than taken as the deadly serious portent of things to come for how Microsoft is coming after Apple by leapfrogging them.
If I had a kid going into STEM, I'd buy them an Asus or Alienware laptop with a Linux on it and a Windows VM. If they were undecided, I'd buy them the Chromebook until they declare a major. At no point would I look at Apple's lineup and say "a $1k-$2.5k soldered together toy with an oft neglected Unix OS is the right starting laptop."
I can't believe that no law firm has tried to organize a shareholder lawsuit yet. I bet it would be fascinating to see the discovery period when Twitter has to show how much it spent in money and manpower to implement these features at the behest of SJWs and then explain to a jury how they planned to meet their responsibilities to shareholders by openly attacking half of their potential users. It is not an exaggeration to say that this is now in the same sport, if not league, as what was done to Nokia.
FFS, they have been suspending accounts with literally no activity, but Islamic extremists are nowhere near as policed as "trolls."
It'll be even more lulz-inducing when the plaintiffs bring up the countless examples of Twitter tolerating trending hash tags calling for the extermination of white people, the assassination of the President and such and then say "Mr. Dorsey, please explain how you protected Twitter's good will, reputation in the market through this obvious double standard where you tolerated literally felonious speech in violation of the terms of service.
Lower skilled Americans cannot compete with people who are happy to make half the prevailing wage for a job. Even some of the skilled sectors like construction are hit hard these days. A job that an American would want $20/hour to do can easily be run down to $8-$10 by an illegal.
Maybe you're fine with that. Maybe you're a libertarian who thinks that no one owes that worker a decent, prevailing wage that is protected from third world mass competition. Alright, so you don't give a damn about his well-being, don't complain if he returns the favor and won't even piss on you if you're on fire, begging for help.
Twitter is out of control and it's obvious that there is no leadership at the helm. They're banning accounts left and right, and typically without any serious reason. Or when they do it's over something mildly offensive. Meanwhile Twitter leadership acts like 12k calls to assassinate the President don't constitute unimpeachable grounds to bring down the banhammer.
So remember kids, you can't say "I hate n----s" on Twitter if your account comes off as white. That's a violation of their community standards, but committing a federal felony in what you write, that's Twitter's idea of protected speech.
The only question at this point is who is dumber, the board or shareholders, as no one is bring Twitter into court to explain why Twitter is letting inmates run the asylum and just as important... how many tens of millions of wasted engineering manhours have been wasted on this bullshit.
If you're poor, you can go to BestBuy and buy a clean, never used PC laptop for $200. You can get a Chrome Book for even cheaper than that. There is simply no reason to buy a used computer except from someone you know and trust because you can find literally almost anything, brand new, at a good price point.
But but old hardware? How about you just recycle it?The alternative is that you give it to someone, it breaks not much later and ends up in a landfill instead of at least probably getting shredded and its materials repurposed.
When a product can be literally rendered unusable through this level of epic fail, it stands to reason that the product was so defective that the customer could not rely on it. Warranty period or not, this is the sort of thing that the government should say "it should never have been built this way, fix it" since we're not talking about the S1 here.
English, in most cases, falls under an umbrella of majors that can be politely called "Barista Studies." Outside of college, it will be the engineers shouldering a disproportionate percentage (relative to majors in Barista Studies) of the tax burden to support, among other things, the university system. Now you want us to not only pay our way more, but pay more and more taxes to subsidize your Barista Studies degree? I don't think so. This isn't Animal Farm, and we sure as Hell won't play the role of Boxer.
Being removed from the GSA schedule for goods and services should be a good wake up call pour encourager les autres. After all, a vendor that is essentially angling itself as a foreign company shouldn't expect federal contracts.
Under Obama, we stopped counting people as unemployed if they gave up looking for a job. Such people are difficult to track is the argument. Oh really, that's a rational argument for moving the goal post? Controlling for some variables is really hard, so let's not? Well fuck me, I guess we're all Barbie now and "Math is hard!!!"
The inflation measurements have long been known to exclude food and fuel, the two most inflation-affected consumer goods. The food pyramid was laughably unscientific when it was created. Need I go on?
You got Trump in no small part because of this faux earnest, "we're just interested in the facts, sir." No, you're not. You're as fucking dishonest as Ellen DeGeneres when she said "8 years, no scandal." Please ignore Fast and Furious, the fact that Clinton intentionally lied about the known motivations for the attack on Benghazi, political appointees at the IRS targeting conservative groups, blowing up a 16 year old kid with drone and so much more.
If the phone isn't getting even security updates as they come out the OS version it runs, it's not a deal. Google needs to do two things to make it a real deal at any price:
1. Force the carriers to let you update it as they release patches.
2. Actually support the OS.
Having to replace a phone to get security updates is not a deal. It's just an environmentally-unsound model for moving cheap hardware.
The problem with Snowden is that Snowden released at least two very different types of data: 1. Data that shows potentially or actually illegal domestic actions. 2. Data that shows operational details on entirely legal foreign operations. There is a good case to be made about the former, but there is absolutely no legal or moral basis for a pardon on the latter. What Snowden did was not stop at reporting likely law-breaking, but essentially depantsed the NSA WRT its operational capabilities and techniques. That would be like waving a case like some village massacre in one hand and then holding a binder in the other hand that happens to contain the operational status of every military unit in theater, along with personnel names, the whole shebang that would allow an enemy to greatly step up their game. No, for the 2nd point Snowden really has to go to prison if he comes back, and he knows it.
Calling Cook the Ballmer of Apple is an insult to Ballmer because at least Ballmer consistently raised revenues and profits and demonstrated a deep commitment to Microsoft's core markets. The fact is that putting Steve Ballmer in charge of Apple now would make more sense than keeping Cook. Ballmer would probably have a better shot of resurrecting the Mac's nose-diving reputation than Cook at this point.
They could have easily charged $100 if it had every NES game on there. To get any money all for games that old would/should be like manna from Heaven to the companies that own the IP.
with a NUC that can take 64GB of RAM...
The company that has made backward compatibility a core business principle jettisoning its highly mature command line interface? Only in the fevered dreams of people who still call them stuff like M$...
Apple is making Gab jump through flaming hoops to get their mobile app published. They've repeatedly come up with new reasons that are utterly nonsensical like concern trolling about porn, abusive users, harassment, etc. despite a) allowing Twitter, Tumblr, etc. and b) those allowed services having notorious problems that are cheerfully ignored by Apple. In fact, Apple is all but saying "if your site doesn't work the way we want, your users cannot have an app." One of their responses.