This is great news, if they actually implement it. FB used to be keeping up with friends and family, now it's a small targeted group of friends or family that FB's algorithms have decided I want to follow while the others only pop into my feed occasionally. It's unending clickbait articles put onto my wall because a friend liked it or commented, not shared it with me but liked or commented on it. Supposedly FB was going to fight clickbait and fake news, but it still dominates the newsfeed.
But will they actually change anything? Of course not, they don't make money from me liking my a picture of my sister's dinner. No they make money when I click on a clickbait article they've managed to make me think a friend shared, when in fact the friend only reacted to that article. Or often just because the friend likes the page that paid FB for permission to spam it out. FB is not going to cut into their revenue stream.
Or did the researchers just assume the genders of all the turtles? What if most northern turtles are more liberal and prefer to identify as female until breeding season? Whereas the more conservative southern turtles don't believe in such gender fluidity?;)
How is he a traitor? At no point did he ever have any allegiance to the US, nor any obligation to not publish the secrets Bradley Manning gave him? Funny how you leftists used to love him, until he published the proof of how corrupt your Designated Queen really is.
Just over a year ago and Assange was still a hero of the Left. The Moment Hillary conceded he became enemy #1 to the left.
But the political aspects aside, even if I agreed with you that Hillary should be President, Assange is still not a traitor/ Under no definition of the word does he qualify as such. He is not a US citizen and has no loyalty to it nor any obligation to keep anything he finds out about it secret.
False, the US has no extradition request, nor have we even filed charges against him. The fear of extradition to the US is based on a misunderstanding of who is responsible for leaked secrets. Manning was legally responsible for violating the trust he was given when authorized to access our secure systems. He bears full liability for stealing and leaking those secrets.
Assange, a foreign national not subject to US law was under no legal obligation to protect the information given him. The US has no legal claim on him. Any extradition request would be instantly denied because of this.
Nor can we just disappear him, he's too high profile. He is not an enemy of the state, he's no friend but he's not an enemy. And I doubt we would try to just eliminate him, again he;s too high profile and too many would instantly assume anything that happened to him was a CIA action or plot. In fact if he ever does leave that embassy, I hope he lives a very safe and long life. Otherwise anything does happen to him is going to be blamed on the CIA. Even if they have nothing to do with it, the conspiracy nuts will insist he was eliminated.
The only problem is the authorities have to know if someone makes that call and who made it to prosecute. I guess if they have a stingray setup they can track every mobile call or text to see who did it if they use that kind of notification method. But then again it could be passed off as simple as someone talking to another office at the time the police arrive saying to the other end, "Oh the Police are here I better go see what's up". Or a simple IM sent to another office. The remote participant then notifies the Ripley team. Or it could even be a Warrant canary style notice, someone closes a running chat or data feed. The loss of that feed while everything else is still up and running triggers the alert and the response.
Yes it is obstruction, but it can be very hard if not impossible to identify who did it.
The Dems don't just go along because the R's give them some districts, they also do it unabashedly in states they control. In fact the practice named after a Democratic Governor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering#Etymology) that really started the practice. Yes the GOP Gerrymanders, so does the Democratic Party.
And what about the Precincts with Armed Black Panthers "Protecting" the voters. Police providing security in high crime areas is not racist.
Joke? That's no joke, it's medical care in the military. Go to the Medics, get Motrin. Who cares that it was for a cold or a sprain or a missing limb. The wonder drug cures all, or at least lets the medics feel like they did something.
Likely, although with a forked repo, Other distro's could remain Alexa (aka HAL) free. If Alexa (aka Skynet) is to take over the network it must be deployed to every platform possible.
Amazon will pay Linus to integrate it into the next build of the Kernel. Or Intel and AMD to build it into the core processor functions of every CPU. Amazon will own your soul one way or another.
You, are no geek or nerd. Every true geek or nerd has dreamed of speaking to his computer since the dawn of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Only Alexa responds to the wrong prompt and doesn't sound like Majel Barrett-Roddenberry.
This has a ways to go, but in many ways is achieving that geeky dream. Giving us handheld communicators with global reach. (you can even get Bluetooth broaches for that variant of the experience.) Now if we can just get Warp drives, anti-gravity and gravity controls, Holodecks, replicators and transporters.
Researchers at the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown University's law school made this claim. Not the Supreme Court, which has granted great leeway to what customs can do at the borders. It's a legal opinion paper that is just that, opinion, with no legal standing.
No, a "Well Regulated Militia" is in the definition of the term "Well Regulated" in 1790 a functional militia. That means the citizens who make up the militia have their own arms so that they can be called out by their local community leaders and respond with weapons (and ammo) needed to be a force to contend with. A disarmed populous that has to rely on a government stockpile of weapons being available is not a functional militia. The Minutemen didn't have time to head down to the villiage armory, wait for the armorer to be woken up and issue weapons. They heard the call, grabbed their weapons and responded. The founding fathers knew that. The Battles of Lexington and Concord were directly due to British efforts to confiscate gunpowder stockpiled by the communities. But the militia was able to respond with it's own weapons and history was set.
Further the Militia Act clearly states that the National Guard is NOT the militia, it is part of the formal US Military. While nominally under control of the local state, it is funded and equipped by the Federal Government and can be called up over a Governor's objection. We the people are the Militia, and if we are not armed we are not a functional or "Well Regulated" militia.
Or since they are producing malware, perhaps the authorities might be interested in talking to the Lawyer who sent the C&D letters regarding their criminal employers.
It's not and never was the number of Executive orders he signed. It was the nature of the EO's he signed. Where prior Presidents restricted their use of EO's to their designed purpose. Which is to instruct the agencies of the Executive branch on how to implement laws passed by Congress. President Obama couldn't get congress to do what he wanted even during the first two years when the Dems controlled both houses, so he tried to use the EO to go around Congress. To legislate via fiat, and change the laws without congressional approval. That is where he went wrong, repeatedly.
Yes many prior Presidents signed far more EO's but none abused that power like Obama. Trump is using them heavily in a similar manner but mostly so far to undue Obama's over-reaching EO's. The jury is still out on how Trump will do with EO's, he could very easily try to continue the Obama Style of using the Fiat of the EO to legislate where congress will not act. But so far he has not done so. And if he does, the blame for starting such style of administrative abuses falls squarely at the feet of Obama.
As opposed to the mess such parliamentary style governments get into as the parties have to form and maintain strange coalitions with parties that they mostly disagree with in order to get enough votes to form a government. But should something disturb that often fragile coalition the government collapses and another awkward coalition assumes control.
There are many problems with the two party system we have in the US, but at least we have a stable government that won't collapse at the wrong tip of a hat.
This is a law, passed by Congress by attaching to the NDAA. HE didn't do anything, but sign the bill. Not signing it would have been a much bigger issue as it would have held up funding for the military.
If anything complain about the congressional practice of attaching off-topic issues to must pass bills to slip them into law. Both parties are guilty of doing this.
Easier said than done. Google tried with Google Fiber. How is that going on it's nationwide roll-out. Oh yea they scaled back the project substantially due to how expensive it was getting to be to get it set up. Only place that seems to be doing well with the Project is Provo Utah where Google bought an already deployed city's fiber network.
Except that they haven't worked, The ceasefire was signed in 1953, it's now 2017 and things haven't changed much. Every couple years NK starts rattling their sabers again. Even more so every time we get a new President. Back in 94 when I was in Basic they were pushing hard realizing that Clinton was more of a pushover than Reagan or Bush I had been.
And who would we give it back to anyway? The Mexicans stole it from Spain when they declared independence and Spain was granted their portion of the New World by the Pope, who in theory speaks for God who of course created the planet.;)
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Under high pressure from CA to convert the coal plants to NG. Cali is very opposed to coal.
This is great news, if they actually implement it. FB used to be keeping up with friends and family, now it's a small targeted group of friends or family that FB's algorithms have decided I want to follow while the others only pop into my feed occasionally. It's unending clickbait articles put onto my wall because a friend liked it or commented, not shared it with me but liked or commented on it. Supposedly FB was going to fight clickbait and fake news, but it still dominates the newsfeed.
But will they actually change anything? Of course not, they don't make money from me liking my a picture of my sister's dinner. No they make money when I click on a clickbait article they've managed to make me think a friend shared, when in fact the friend only reacted to that article. Or often just because the friend likes the page that paid FB for permission to spam it out. FB is not going to cut into their revenue stream.
Or did the researchers just assume the genders of all the turtles? What if most northern turtles are more liberal and prefer to identify as female until breeding season? Whereas the more conservative southern turtles don't believe in such gender fluidity? ;)
How is he a traitor? At no point did he ever have any allegiance to the US, nor any obligation to not publish the secrets Bradley Manning gave him? Funny how you leftists used to love him, until he published the proof of how corrupt your Designated Queen really is.
Just over a year ago and Assange was still a hero of the Left. The Moment Hillary conceded he became enemy #1 to the left.
But the political aspects aside, even if I agreed with you that Hillary should be President, Assange is still not a traitor/ Under no definition of the word does he qualify as such. He is not a US citizen and has no loyalty to it nor any obligation to keep anything he finds out about it secret.
False, the US has no extradition request, nor have we even filed charges against him. The fear of extradition to the US is based on a misunderstanding of who is responsible for leaked secrets. Manning was legally responsible for violating the trust he was given when authorized to access our secure systems. He bears full liability for stealing and leaking those secrets.
Assange, a foreign national not subject to US law was under no legal obligation to protect the information given him. The US has no legal claim on him. Any extradition request would be instantly denied because of this.
Nor can we just disappear him, he's too high profile. He is not an enemy of the state, he's no friend but he's not an enemy. And I doubt we would try to just eliminate him, again he;s too high profile and too many would instantly assume anything that happened to him was a CIA action or plot. In fact if he ever does leave that embassy, I hope he lives a very safe and long life. Otherwise anything does happen to him is going to be blamed on the CIA. Even if they have nothing to do with it, the conspiracy nuts will insist he was eliminated.
The only problem is the authorities have to know if someone makes that call and who made it to prosecute. I guess if they have a stingray setup they can track every mobile call or text to see who did it if they use that kind of notification method. But then again it could be passed off as simple as someone talking to another office at the time the police arrive saying to the other end, "Oh the Police are here I better go see what's up". Or a simple IM sent to another office. The remote participant then notifies the Ripley team. Or it could even be a Warrant canary style notice, someone closes a running chat or data feed. The loss of that feed while everything else is still up and running triggers the alert and the response.
Yes it is obstruction, but it can be very hard if not impossible to identify who did it.
Unless he's looking to pad his bank account for retirement. Maybe looking for a cushy seven figure "Lobbyist" job in 4 years.
The Dems don't just go along because the R's give them some districts, they also do it unabashedly in states they control. In fact the practice named after a Democratic Governor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering#Etymology) that really started the practice. Yes the GOP Gerrymanders, so does the Democratic Party.
And what about the Precincts with Armed Black Panthers "Protecting" the voters. Police providing security in high crime areas is not racist.
Joke? That's no joke, it's medical care in the military. Go to the Medics, get Motrin. Who cares that it was for a cold or a sprain or a missing limb. The wonder drug cures all, or at least lets the medics feel like they did something.
Likely, although with a forked repo, Other distro's could remain Alexa (aka HAL) free. If Alexa (aka Skynet) is to take over the network it must be deployed to every platform possible.
And the paper will have an x-rated pattern printed on it. Alexa strives to meet every aspect of your request.
Amazon will pay Linus to integrate it into the next build of the Kernel. Or Intel and AMD to build it into the core processor functions of every CPU. Amazon will own your soul one way or another.
You, are no geek or nerd. Every true geek or nerd has dreamed of speaking to his computer since the dawn of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Only Alexa responds to the wrong prompt and doesn't sound like Majel Barrett-Roddenberry.
This has a ways to go, but in many ways is achieving that geeky dream. Giving us handheld communicators with global reach. (you can even get Bluetooth broaches for that variant of the experience.)
Now if we can just get Warp drives, anti-gravity and gravity controls, Holodecks, replicators and transporters.
You mean they don't? Bu, but, Brawndo!, it's what plants crave!
Researchers at the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown University's law school made this claim. Not the Supreme Court, which has granted great leeway to what customs can do at the borders. It's a legal opinion paper that is just that, opinion, with no legal standing.
No, a "Well Regulated Militia" is in the definition of the term "Well Regulated" in 1790 a functional militia. That means the citizens who make up the militia have their own arms so that they can be called out by their local community leaders and respond with weapons (and ammo) needed to be a force to contend with. A disarmed populous that has to rely on a government stockpile of weapons being available is not a functional militia. The Minutemen didn't have time to head down to the villiage armory, wait for the armorer to be woken up and issue weapons. They heard the call, grabbed their weapons and responded. The founding fathers knew that. The Battles of Lexington and Concord were directly due to British efforts to confiscate gunpowder stockpiled by the communities. But the militia was able to respond with it's own weapons and history was set.
Further the Militia Act clearly states that the National Guard is NOT the militia, it is part of the formal US Military. While nominally under control of the local state, it is funded and equipped by the Federal Government and can be called up over a Governor's objection. We the people are the Militia, and if we are not armed we are not a functional or "Well Regulated" militia.
I turned mine off after getting one for a custody dispute in the middle of the night, for a child three states and at least a 14 hour drive away.
Or since they are producing malware, perhaps the authorities might be interested in talking to the Lawyer who sent the C&D letters regarding their criminal employers.
It's not and never was the number of Executive orders he signed. It was the nature of the EO's he signed. Where prior Presidents restricted their use of EO's to their designed purpose. Which is to instruct the agencies of the Executive branch on how to implement laws passed by Congress. President Obama couldn't get congress to do what he wanted even during the first two years when the Dems controlled both houses, so he tried to use the EO to go around Congress. To legislate via fiat, and change the laws without congressional approval. That is where he went wrong, repeatedly.
Yes many prior Presidents signed far more EO's but none abused that power like Obama. Trump is using them heavily in a similar manner but mostly so far to undue Obama's over-reaching EO's. The jury is still out on how Trump will do with EO's, he could very easily try to continue the Obama Style of using the Fiat of the EO to legislate where congress will not act. But so far he has not done so. And if he does, the blame for starting such style of administrative abuses falls squarely at the feet of Obama.
As opposed to the mess such parliamentary style governments get into as the parties have to form and maintain strange coalitions with parties that they mostly disagree with in order to get enough votes to form a government. But should something disturb that often fragile coalition the government collapses and another awkward coalition assumes control.
There are many problems with the two party system we have in the US, but at least we have a stable government that won't collapse at the wrong tip of a hat.
Rep MIA Love (R-Utah) has been pushing such a bill for two years now. Her "One Topic per Bill" bill is gaining support but slowly.
This is a law, passed by Congress by attaching to the NDAA. HE didn't do anything, but sign the bill. Not signing it would have been a much bigger issue as it would have held up funding for the military.
If anything complain about the congressional practice of attaching off-topic issues to must pass bills to slip them into law. Both parties are guilty of doing this.
Easier said than done. Google tried with Google Fiber. How is that going on it's nationwide roll-out. Oh yea they scaled back the project substantially due to how expensive it was getting to be to get it set up. Only place that seems to be doing well with the Project is Provo Utah where Google bought an already deployed city's fiber network.
Except that they haven't worked, The ceasefire was signed in 1953, it's now 2017 and things haven't changed much. Every couple years NK starts rattling their sabers again. Even more so every time we get a new President. Back in 94 when I was in Basic they were pushing hard realizing that Clinton was more of a pushover than Reagan or Bush I had been.
And who would we give it back to anyway? The Mexicans stole it from Spain when they declared independence and Spain was granted their portion of the New World by the Pope, who in theory speaks for God who of course created the planet. ;)