ou need to provide an in-state birth certificate, social security card, blood sample, passport, pass a citizenship test and submit to a DNA swab
Born a citizen: provide a birth certificate and some sort of ID or witness that is also a US citizen. Naturalized: provide a copy of your naturalization paperwork and a passport with your ID on it if you haven't already gotten a photo ID from a state government.
1. Put all of the data in a big Hadoop cluster. 2. Throw in social security records. 3. MapReduce/Spark 4. Nice big graphical charts that lay bare how absolutely cluster fucked our election system actually is in terms that even someone with an 80 IQ can understand.
My bet: 1. You'll find a lot of UMC voters double voting in different states where they have legal residences. 2. You'll find a lot of dead voters still voting. 3. You'll find a lot of immigrants.
If anything, I expect to find that felons are the least problematic group as most of them won't give two shits about voting if it steers them anywhere near a repeat offense that sends them back to prison.
Japan does not have a first amendment protecting freedom of religion.
The SCOTUS has also ruled that...
1. The US Constitution only applies inside of our borders. 2. The first amendment does not protect a foreigner from being deported for the content of their speech if the President declares it to be in the national interest to remove them.
Whether you like it or not, the ability to wholesale black entire regions from traveling to the US is actually the least cruel, least invasive and least destructive way of preemptively handling potential problems from foreign sources. If they don't arrive here...
1. We don't have to surveil them. 2. We don't have to even have a debate about indefinite detention or torture. 3. We have less of a reason to worry about who is talking to who.
Japan effectively blocks immigration and most travel from Islamic countries. Maybe you think that's wrong, but at the same time, Japan has never had to have some of the post-9/11 debates we've had that have warped our national morals and values.
(As a side note, "you might be a neocon if..." you think it's deplorable to screen like this, but think shipping a man off to Syria to be "evaluated" is sound, moral foreign policy)
Mark Hamill apparently completely disagreed with how Luke Skywalker was written in The Last Jedi. Seems to me that a lot of the newer chefs in the kitchen think they can improve the original, actually universally loved, characters and stories. I wonder if that was at play here.
If you want to tell a Star Wars story that really diverges from the past, that's totally fine. Get the studios to actually give you a semi-blank canvas that is set in that universe. Everyone will be better off for it.
Cats can be highly social, loving animals if you don't raise them like a feral that happens to live in your house. When ours were kittens, we used to cart them around the house all of the time like babies, holding them, petting them, etc. And quelle surprise... they had a lot more in common with the average dog in terms of affection than the average cat many people know.
Plus discipline. Set boundaries and set them hard from a young age. Cats generally will accept them.
Make in-store pickup really, really fast. Many brick and mortar stores make it too slow. So that is one of the main reasons why they are losing out to Amazon. If it takes half a day or more from me hitting "buy" on the site and the local store putting together the order, that's too slow for what it is. Most of the time I go into brick and mortar stores in our area, they don't have that much volume. There's no excuse for them to be slow. As far as I'm concerned, they're slitting their throats while Amazon sits there like \_()_/ while chucking tens of billions in low-hanging fruit into their cart.
I can't believe it never occurred to a lot of executives in the commercial banking sector to do this. It would be a great way to make PayPal-like income without having to go through the credit card process. If they set up a system where you could define like 5 people where no fees would apply for personal transactions, it would be a hit with families.
The Chinese are starting to have real skin in the game, and so they're now in the position we were in in the 19th century. You can continue to play the pirate on a lot of IP issues or you can have other industrial states recognize your IP. You can't have both. If the US hadn't changed, the British and Germans would have repaid us by having government staff engineers regularly bulk shipping American patent applications back to London and Berlin, and we'd have been poorer for it.
They have competition. Why waste money supporting them when you can send it to a lean organization that is run by people who are ruthlessly dedicated to not repeating Wikipedia's mistakes?
"No one disputes the convenience of the ride-hailing industry, but that convenience evaporates when you're stuck in traffic behind a double-parked Uber or Lyft, or when you can't get a ride because the vehicle isn't accessible to someone with a disability or because the algorithm disfavors the neighborhood where you live,"
Most of us are not even slightly inconvenienced by these things. The benefit does not dry up in the least for us. Particularly for the "disadvantaged neighborhood" which is a UMC euphemism for "poor, crime-ridden blighted neighborhood I would actually overcome my gut-level hatred of guns to buy an AR15 and a 0.40 if I had to live there."
Apple needs a swift kick in the ass. They've completely lost sight of the Jobs method of empire building which starts with "build and maintain your moat." That moat is the Mac. Even if it becomes 10% of their revenue, it is one of the single most important products they have because of a few reasons:
1. It has developers get to every iOS product line. 2. It is the general purpose computer of influencers and decision makers. 3. It is a hub to the iOS product lines that Apple can totally control.
It takes no real resources for a company like Apple to regularly update the Mac lines. They can easily afford to sacrifice some potential profitability to make their pro lines robust, repairable, upgradeable, etc. I didn't mind a semi-disposable iPhone when the Macbook Pro was like it was until the post-Jobs era. Now I don't know any power users that think Apple for a $1500-$2500 laptop purchase because we all now think it's a sucker's game.
Considering that there was a huge stream of anti-NN comments, many of which came in the names of people who are actually dead, something is off. But hey, let's dismiss their claims without any investigation because we can study the text and provenance of those comments without even looking at a database dump. We're awesome like that!
Is a phone that is analogous to the Steve Jobs era MacBook Pro. Expensive, well-built, upgradeable (in a limited sense as laptops go), repairable, long term support. For a phone that is like that, I'd not only pay $1k up front, but be willing to fork over $150-$200 for a support package that guarantees that, barring bankruptcy, the company will provide timely software updates past the first two years.
however, it meant that you have no idea of Chinese culture. Many Chinese people (from mainland China) are loyal to their country of origin regardless where they are residing (in China or else where). They teach their descendants to keep similar loyalty to China.
I am actually quite well aware of this tendency among the Chinese, which is why to the extent that we allow immigration from China it should be both very limited and immigrants who betray their new citizenship should be ruthlessly dealt with by the legal system because you are fighting not just individuals, but a culturally-ingrained instinct in that legal fight. Frankly, we should be taking a sober view and asking ourselves whether it is really worth the risk in the long run, and I personally don't think it is (and China agrees, which is why like most of East Asia they have a pittance of the legal immigration we do).
Under the restructuring, LeEco will refocus on encouraging Chinese-American consumers to watch LeEco's Chinese content library, one person said.
Note what LeEco is saying here: they're creating Chinese content for US citizens who are of Chinese descent. They're not trying to open up the American market in general the way the Japanese did with anime, video games, etc. This is targeted by ethnicity.
More and more this seems to really be a thing with the immigrant diasporas in the West, and it's going to bring multi-culturalism down hard. Multiculturalists like to say "well the Italians integrated you racist!!" Well, yes they did, but I also know virtually no descendants of Italian immigrants that actually think they're Italian, speak Italian and frankly give a shit what happens in Italy. It is more "cultural flavor" and closer to white Southerners being proud of their heritage than a truly distinct claim on ethnicity.
So take whatever difficulty you'd have integrating a racially diverse set of new immigrants into a still largely homogeneous society, add in a heaping dose of Capitalist encouragement to not give up the old ways and you have a recipe for long term, very severe ethnic conflict. In the long run, there are few things we all share deeply in common at group levels, but one of those things is tribalism. You can indoctrinate that out of us about as well as you can indoctrinate pack instincts out of dogs.
addresses human freedom and prosperity for all, not just the privileged
Take Gender Dysphoria as an example. It is roughly just a mental state where one feels that one's secondary sexual characteristics don't conform to one's feelings about which gender you are. It is essentially a mental illness. That's all it really is. Does anyone seriously think she's going to support Science when the evidence says that it's a mental illness, not just an opinion? Unlikely...
This is politics, plain and simple. Once you understand that, everything is easier to understand. There is no political push for real, objective science because the cold truths about the universe would "trigger" every political faction in modern politics at some point, everywhere from Communists, to anarchists and in between.
Houston's mayor complained the new statewide rules handed down are "another example of the legislature circumventing local control to allow corporations to profit at the expense of public safety."
The legislature didn't circumvent anything. They wielded the constitutional authority they have to regulate you as a subordinate political entity. If you want the sort of autonomy the states have against the federal government, then put forth a draft proposal for a state constitution that provides it.
Of course my change of context still doesn't perfectly capture the scenario, but at least it doesn't ignore the major features of the complaint!
First off, let me say that you have won the Internet for the next hour for this spectacular display of intellectual posturing while managing to be utterly clueless that you have said absolutely nothing of legal relevance to my points.
Now then, I have shocking news for you. Her complaint isn't worth a bucket of warm piss in an honest court room. Do you want to know why? Let's go over it, in blunt and sober detail:
1. She admits she had sex with him with informed consent of what she was doing. 2. She admits she invited him to spend the night with her, in her bed. 3. Fornication is legal, rape is not. Chant that a 1000 times before proceeding if you have to, to understand why we're about to run into problems. 4. She claims she was asleep, but we have no proof she was asleep. 5. She claims she did not consent to this act, but consented to having sex with him hours earlier. 6. She has no evidence that can concretely back up another claim of coercion.
If you are not a psychopath like many modern feminists, you are not going to vote to convict on that evidence because there is literally nothing that passes muster on "guilty beyond a reasonable doubt" that she was raped. In American courts in particular, if you gave the state a conviction on a case this flimsy, you might as well wipe your ass with the bill of rights and set it on fire when you're done.
Threatened? Makes you think that something is really serious here. Even government contractors will typically summarily terminate people who pull an ethical lapse of this scope with client regulations or civil law.
Let's put this in a less charged context than rape. Suppose a woman did some lines of cocaine with a man and the claims "he forced me to do that last line of cocaine!" In a system that isn't based on presumed guilt, you know what the court and/or jury are going to see?
1. She was there of her own free will. 2. She did cocaine with him freely, by her own admission, for most of that time. 3. She lacks signs of coercion. 4. Police have found not traces of evidence to plausibly back up her sudden change of mind. 5. Another line of cocaine made it into her system.
Now, if you are a judge or jury who is not a psychopath, you are probably going to weigh that evidence and conclude that you have a non-trivial chance of being the implement of someone's revenge. You are a decent person who doesn't want to throw someone in prison on a "maybe" or a "it looks bad, but I don't know." You're going to side with Assange here.
Based on the description, this sounds like the sort of Windows you would give to a lot of non-technical users. None of my relatives would miss the missing functionality. The fact that it is also coming as a particular flavor of Windows that Microsoft is treating as a special build is actually encouraging because it means Microsoft is not making the same mistake Apple did of acting like they have to choose between pleasing technical users and non-technical users (and in the end, as we see with their hardware choices, the former lost out).
Another thing to consider is that this build will almost certainly reduce the support costs that schools pay without crippling what they can do for most students.
The more Hollywood pushes this view of feminism, the more their female characters resemble male characters who just happen to be played by a woman. Her first name is Michael, not Michelle. Think about that for a moment. That is either laziness or a subconscious slip about what they were really thinking.
The problem for Hollywood is that any sort of "fierce, ass-kicking woman" who resembles a real world woman is going to look very "right wing." She is going to love weapons. She is going to mock women who think they can go toe-to-toe with a man in hand to hand combat while she cleans her knives and guns. She's going to call her 0.40 handguns "a girl's best friend." She will not hesitate to bring a knife or a gun to a fist fight with a man, and probably other women too if they're the dangerous villain. (Because in the real world, women tend to have nothing analogous to the male view of a fair fighting, as they often see a physical fight as one where winning is the only thing that matters; nothing wrong with that, as their view of fighting often actually is more realistic than the view held by many men)
Now is the time not just for modularization, but for the big Android players to tell the carriers that the era of them deciding when OS updates get to devices is over. It would be really, really bad PR for Verizon or AT&T to be seen fighting a party composed of Google, Samsung, LG and Motorola over what amounts to "we demand the right to help our users maintain the phones you sell them." They'd fold pretty quickly because T-Mobile would immediately declare itself on the side of the Android vendors because John Legere would never miss such a golden PR moment to stick his boot up the ass of his competition.
You can be in favor of the death penalty for the US citizens who decided it was a good idea to facilitate these leaks and oppose the NSA's practices at the same time?
Any US citizen who was involved in this deserves to be regarded as the Internet version of the Rosenbergs if this really plays out.
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Born a citizen: provide a birth certificate and some sort of ID or witness that is also a US citizen.
Naturalized: provide a copy of your naturalization paperwork and a passport with your ID on it if you haven't already gotten a photo ID from a state government.
1. Put all of the data in a big Hadoop cluster.
2. Throw in social security records.
3. MapReduce/Spark
4. Nice big graphical charts that lay bare how absolutely cluster fucked our election system actually is in terms that even someone with an 80 IQ can understand.
My bet:
1. You'll find a lot of UMC voters double voting in different states where they have legal residences.
2. You'll find a lot of dead voters still voting.
3. You'll find a lot of immigrants.
If anything, I expect to find that felons are the least problematic group as most of them won't give two shits about voting if it steers them anywhere near a repeat offense that sends them back to prison.
The SCOTUS has also ruled that...
1. The US Constitution only applies inside of our borders.
2. The first amendment does not protect a foreigner from being deported for the content of their speech if the President declares it to be in the national interest to remove them.
Whether you like it or not, the ability to wholesale black entire regions from traveling to the US is actually the least cruel, least invasive and least destructive way of preemptively handling potential problems from foreign sources. If they don't arrive here...
1. We don't have to surveil them.
2. We don't have to even have a debate about indefinite detention or torture.
3. We have less of a reason to worry about who is talking to who.
Japan effectively blocks immigration and most travel from Islamic countries. Maybe you think that's wrong, but at the same time, Japan has never had to have some of the post-9/11 debates we've had that have warped our national morals and values.
(As a side note, "you might be a neocon if..." you think it's deplorable to screen like this, but think shipping a man off to Syria to be "evaluated" is sound, moral foreign policy)
Mark Hamill apparently completely disagreed with how Luke Skywalker was written in The Last Jedi. Seems to me that a lot of the newer chefs in the kitchen think they can improve the original, actually universally loved, characters and stories. I wonder if that was at play here.
If you want to tell a Star Wars story that really diverges from the past, that's totally fine. Get the studios to actually give you a semi-blank canvas that is set in that universe. Everyone will be better off for it.
Cats can be highly social, loving animals if you don't raise them like a feral that happens to live in your house. When ours were kittens, we used to cart them around the house all of the time like babies, holding them, petting them, etc. And quelle surprise... they had a lot more in common with the average dog in terms of affection than the average cat many people know.
Plus discipline. Set boundaries and set them hard from a young age. Cats generally will accept them.
Make in-store pickup really, really fast. Many brick and mortar stores make it too slow. So that is one of the main reasons why they are losing out to Amazon. If it takes half a day or more from me hitting "buy" on the site and the local store putting together the order, that's too slow for what it is. Most of the time I go into brick and mortar stores in our area, they don't have that much volume. There's no excuse for them to be slow. As far as I'm concerned, they're slitting their throats while Amazon sits there like \_()_/ while chucking tens of billions in low-hanging fruit into their cart.
I can't believe it never occurred to a lot of executives in the commercial banking sector to do this. It would be a great way to make PayPal-like income without having to go through the credit card process. If they set up a system where you could define like 5 people where no fees would apply for personal transactions, it would be a hit with families.
The Chinese are starting to have real skin in the game, and so they're now in the position we were in in the 19th century. You can continue to play the pirate on a lot of IP issues or you can have other industrial states recognize your IP. You can't have both. If the US hadn't changed, the British and Germans would have repaid us by having government staff engineers regularly bulk shipping American patent applications back to London and Berlin, and we'd have been poorer for it.
They have competition. Why waste money supporting them when you can send it to a lean organization that is run by people who are ruthlessly dedicated to not repeating Wikipedia's mistakes?
Most of us are not even slightly inconvenienced by these things. The benefit does not dry up in the least for us. Particularly for the "disadvantaged neighborhood" which is a UMC euphemism for "poor, crime-ridden blighted neighborhood I would actually overcome my gut-level hatred of guns to buy an AR15 and a 0.40 if I had to live there."
Apple needs a swift kick in the ass. They've completely lost sight of the Jobs method of empire building which starts with "build and maintain your moat." That moat is the Mac. Even if it becomes 10% of their revenue, it is one of the single most important products they have because of a few reasons:
1. It has developers get to every iOS product line.
2. It is the general purpose computer of influencers and decision makers.
3. It is a hub to the iOS product lines that Apple can totally control.
It takes no real resources for a company like Apple to regularly update the Mac lines. They can easily afford to sacrifice some potential profitability to make their pro lines robust, repairable, upgradeable, etc. I didn't mind a semi-disposable iPhone when the Macbook Pro was like it was until the post-Jobs era. Now I don't know any power users that think Apple for a $1500-$2500 laptop purchase because we all now think it's a sucker's game.
Considering that there was a huge stream of anti-NN comments, many of which came in the names of people who are actually dead, something is off. But hey, let's dismiss their claims without any investigation because we can study the text and provenance of those comments without even looking at a database dump. We're awesome like that!
Is a phone that is analogous to the Steve Jobs era MacBook Pro. Expensive, well-built, upgradeable (in a limited sense as laptops go), repairable, long term support. For a phone that is like that, I'd not only pay $1k up front, but be willing to fork over $150-$200 for a support package that guarantees that, barring bankruptcy, the company will provide timely software updates past the first two years.
I am actually quite well aware of this tendency among the Chinese, which is why to the extent that we allow immigration from China it should be both very limited and immigrants who betray their new citizenship should be ruthlessly dealt with by the legal system because you are fighting not just individuals, but a culturally-ingrained instinct in that legal fight. Frankly, we should be taking a sober view and asking ourselves whether it is really worth the risk in the long run, and I personally don't think it is (and China agrees, which is why like most of East Asia they have a pittance of the legal immigration we do).
Note what LeEco is saying here: they're creating Chinese content for US citizens who are of Chinese descent. They're not trying to open up the American market in general the way the Japanese did with anime, video games, etc. This is targeted by ethnicity.
More and more this seems to really be a thing with the immigrant diasporas in the West, and it's going to bring multi-culturalism down hard. Multiculturalists like to say "well the Italians integrated you racist!!" Well, yes they did, but I also know virtually no descendants of Italian immigrants that actually think they're Italian, speak Italian and frankly give a shit what happens in Italy. It is more "cultural flavor" and closer to white Southerners being proud of their heritage than a truly distinct claim on ethnicity.
So take whatever difficulty you'd have integrating a racially diverse set of new immigrants into a still largely homogeneous society, add in a heaping dose of Capitalist encouragement to not give up the old ways and you have a recipe for long term, very severe ethnic conflict. In the long run, there are few things we all share deeply in common at group levels, but one of those things is tribalism. You can indoctrinate that out of us about as well as you can indoctrinate pack instincts out of dogs.
Take Gender Dysphoria as an example. It is roughly just a mental state where one feels that one's secondary sexual characteristics don't conform to one's feelings about which gender you are. It is essentially a mental illness. That's all it really is. Does anyone seriously think she's going to support Science when the evidence says that it's a mental illness, not just an opinion? Unlikely...
This is politics, plain and simple. Once you understand that, everything is easier to understand. There is no political push for real, objective science because the cold truths about the universe would "trigger" every political faction in modern politics at some point, everywhere from Communists, to anarchists and in between.
The legislature didn't circumvent anything. They wielded the constitutional authority they have to regulate you as a subordinate political entity. If you want the sort of autonomy the states have against the federal government, then put forth a draft proposal for a state constitution that provides it.
First off, let me say that you have won the Internet for the next hour for this spectacular display of intellectual posturing while managing to be utterly clueless that you have said absolutely nothing of legal relevance to my points.
Now then, I have shocking news for you. Her complaint isn't worth a bucket of warm piss in an honest court room. Do you want to know why? Let's go over it, in blunt and sober detail:
1. She admits she had sex with him with informed consent of what she was doing.
2. She admits she invited him to spend the night with her, in her bed.
3. Fornication is legal, rape is not. Chant that a 1000 times before proceeding if you have to, to understand why we're about to run into problems.
4. She claims she was asleep, but we have no proof she was asleep.
5. She claims she did not consent to this act, but consented to having sex with him hours earlier.
6. She has no evidence that can concretely back up another claim of coercion.
If you are not a psychopath like many modern feminists, you are not going to vote to convict on that evidence because there is literally nothing that passes muster on "guilty beyond a reasonable doubt" that she was raped. In American courts in particular, if you gave the state a conviction on a case this flimsy, you might as well wipe your ass with the bill of rights and set it on fire when you're done.
Threatened? Makes you think that something is really serious here. Even government contractors will typically summarily terminate people who pull an ethical lapse of this scope with client regulations or civil law.
Let's put this in a less charged context than rape. Suppose a woman did some lines of cocaine with a man and the claims "he forced me to do that last line of cocaine!" In a system that isn't based on presumed guilt, you know what the court and/or jury are going to see?
1. She was there of her own free will.
2. She did cocaine with him freely, by her own admission, for most of that time.
3. She lacks signs of coercion.
4. Police have found not traces of evidence to plausibly back up her sudden change of mind.
5. Another line of cocaine made it into her system.
Now, if you are a judge or jury who is not a psychopath, you are probably going to weigh that evidence and conclude that you have a non-trivial chance of being the implement of someone's revenge. You are a decent person who doesn't want to throw someone in prison on a "maybe" or a "it looks bad, but I don't know." You're going to side with Assange here.
Based on the description, this sounds like the sort of Windows you would give to a lot of non-technical users. None of my relatives would miss the missing functionality. The fact that it is also coming as a particular flavor of Windows that Microsoft is treating as a special build is actually encouraging because it means Microsoft is not making the same mistake Apple did of acting like they have to choose between pleasing technical users and non-technical users (and in the end, as we see with their hardware choices, the former lost out).
Another thing to consider is that this build will almost certainly reduce the support costs that schools pay without crippling what they can do for most students.
The more Hollywood pushes this view of feminism, the more their female characters resemble male characters who just happen to be played by a woman. Her first name is Michael, not Michelle. Think about that for a moment. That is either laziness or a subconscious slip about what they were really thinking.
The problem for Hollywood is that any sort of "fierce, ass-kicking woman" who resembles a real world woman is going to look very "right wing." She is going to love weapons. She is going to mock women who think they can go toe-to-toe with a man in hand to hand combat while she cleans her knives and guns. She's going to call her 0.40 handguns "a girl's best friend." She will not hesitate to bring a knife or a gun to a fist fight with a man, and probably other women too if they're the dangerous villain. (Because in the real world, women tend to have nothing analogous to the male view of a fair fighting, as they often see a physical fight as one where winning is the only thing that matters; nothing wrong with that, as their view of fighting often actually is more realistic than the view held by many men)
Now is the time not just for modularization, but for the big Android players to tell the carriers that the era of them deciding when OS updates get to devices is over. It would be really, really bad PR for Verizon or AT&T to be seen fighting a party composed of Google, Samsung, LG and Motorola over what amounts to "we demand the right to help our users maintain the phones you sell them." They'd fold pretty quickly because T-Mobile would immediately declare itself on the side of the Android vendors because John Legere would never miss such a golden PR moment to stick his boot up the ass of his competition.
You can be in favor of the death penalty for the US citizens who decided it was a good idea to facilitate these leaks and oppose the NSA's practices at the same time?
Any US citizen who was involved in this deserves to be regarded as the Internet version of the Rosenbergs if this really plays out.