Agreed. Johnson is about as Libertarian as Clinton is Liberal. Johnson has been their champion for the better part of a decade and they've only seen their numbers get worse.
Factually wrong on every point. Johnson ran for the Libertarian nomination in 2012 after he didn't make it in the 2012 GOP primaries. In 2012, he got just about 1%. This year, he's polling anywhere between 8-13%. Even if he were to finish on the low end of that range, it would be a huge improvement over where they were in 2012.
Write ins are fine, also there is usually 20 or so Political Parties on the ballot in my state, Michigan, as well as most states. It's the nature of our Electoral College system and Federal Campaign Financing that pretty much insures only a Democrat or a Republican will be elected.
There will be 6 presidential candidates listed on the Michigan ballot. The first hurdle 3rd parties face is gaining ballot access. The second hurdle 3rd parties face is maintaining ballot access. 3rd parties typically have to spend so much time & effort gaining ballot access that it makes it even that much more difficult for them to ever get elected. I'm not a huge fan of Gary Johnson, but his positions align more closely to mine than Clinton or Trump, and I'd really like to see the LP get major party status in Michigan, so they don't have to keep on going through the same ballot access cycle every 2 years.
No worries. The mainstream media is already releasing every nasty thing on Trump they can dig up. Someone has to release nasty stuff on Hillary too, since it sure as shit isn't going to come from CNN.
And they're making sure that it is timed to come out at the exact same moment that any damaging info on Hillary comes out so as to neutralize it. Assange is no match for the main stream media. Besides, everybody already knew that Trump is like a drunken frat boy & Clinton is corrupt to the core. Neither of their supporters care about it in either case.
It's one judge in a sea of thousands of such judges. Don't hold your breath, skippy.
How does somebody on/. not notice that this is a conditional statement? It started with if. There is a good chance that this could be appealed, and possibly even go to the Supreme Court. If they held that software patents are invalid, then what I said would be true. Unfortunately, you can't rely on the Supreme Court to make the right decision, so I don't expect it to stand even if it makes it all the way there.
No, it pretty much matters for anyone who uses computers, and for the jobs they do with those computers. So basically the vast majority of people, even if they don't realize the underlying benefits.
a black person who doesn't want to get killed by twitchy cops....
I can understand your other points, but this one doesn't make any sense. This is currently happening under a black President with a black Attorney General.
This would have more impact than the presidential election. Software patents are a shackle on all programmers outside of megacorps that hold the patents.
TL;DW, a good first test (not only, just first) for whether a conspiracy theory might be true is "if true would this theory have a negative effect on rich people?"
While that seems like a good test, you still get a lot of rich people campaigning against GMO's, immunization & nuclear power. And there are different sets of rich people with different interests. The rich people in the fossil fuel industry probably have a different interest in the AGM debate versus the rich people in the renewable energy business.
Another benefit I won't use from Amazon. Amazon Video has some good content, but they don't separate the free stuff from the pay stuff, which makes it a lot more difficult to browse through, so I just use Netflix.
I got Prime for the free 2-day shipping, and that only seems to happen once in a blue moon. I ordered some camping gear a week in advance of my trip, and only part of order was shipped. I received a notification the day before my trip that my other part of the order hadn't shipped yet, and wouldn't arrive until after my camping trip. They offer incentives for you to use slower shipping methods, they should give you credits toward your prime membership if you select 2-day shipping and the package arrives late.
...whether it adheres to capitalist principles or not...
It didn't. His company had a goverment granted monopoly which enabled him to do this. If it weren't for onerous FDA restrictions, several competitors on the market would have kept the price low, and Shkreli would have lost his shirt by doing this. Why don't you want to kick the FDA's teeth to the curb for preventing low prices in the marketplace?
My counter example is that 2 months ago Apple replaced the logic board in my early 2011 MacBook Pro totally for free, under the replacement plan for the design flaws in that system. And I didn't even buy this computer new, I bought it as a refurb from Apple, and the Apple Care that I bought when I purchased the computer had run out a long ago as well.
Apple is really good about repairing computers, especially under AppleCare. I've had issues with two Macs. The first was my 2007 TI PowerBook. The escape key stopped working on the keyboard. I had about 2 weeks left on AppleCare. They Fed-Exed me a box overnight, I sent it in, and had it back the same week. They not only replaced the keyboard, but the front bezel & the trackpad.
My 2008 24" iMac had a faulty logic board, and I live about 70 miles away from the closest Apple store. They sent out a repair guy to come to my workplace. The fix didn't work. It was near Christmas, so the next time they could send someone, my workplace was closed until after New Year's day. So they sent someone to my house. He couldn't get it working either. I brought it up to the Apple Store, and they replaced it with a new 2010 27" iMac. Although it was a frustrating process, I was pretty pleased with the outcome.
thousands upon thousands of iPhone 6 Pluses are completely losing their functionality under normal use...
I wonder what exactly they consider normal use? I have an iPhone 6 plus, and use it quite extensively. I like to play a few games (Marvel Puzzle Quest for example) that require quite a bit of tapping on the screen. I've played that for almost 2 years, and not noticed any degradation in touchscreen responsiveness. I wonder how many of these users are putting their phone in their back pocket & sitting on it?
Libertarian, too bad you can't find a candidate that isn't a non-interventionalist. Come on, Americans love to meddle. If you can't win this election you should just give up. Disband. Whatever parties do when they are no longer relevant.
Either you don't know what you're talking about, or you're purposely spreading misinformation. I have a lot of issues with Gary Johnson, but he's explicitly stated several times that he's in favor of non-intervention, and wants to cut military spending by 20%. This stance is popular with the troops, as Johnson leads both Clinton & Trump in that demographic.
I refuse to support the N. Korean regime at any level. Any growth in their GDP will be redirected to their military. Purchasing the Manbang it tantamount to putting a down payment on a noose; one thread at a time.
Wow, that's quite the courageous stance! How do you deal with the pressure of all of the door-to-door Manbang/other North Korean imports salesmen these days?
How in the heck do they expect to get equal numbers of female and male people into programming jobs in the field. It would seem 'equal' hiring would be around 18% of the population of programmers to make it apples to apples. That would indicate 'fair' hiring.
More proof of systemic racism: even though the white recruiters were given an incentive to hire for diversity, their innate racist tendencies overrode that incentive and they continued to hire cisgender white males.
I know you're being sarcastic, but I have to wonder why race & sex are usually the only criteria for "diversity"? I'd be willing to bet that most tech companies have a much higher proportion of LGBTQXYZ employees & also more atheists. Why aren't things like sexual preference or religious affiliation considered in these statistics?
It would have taken some extreme foresight to plan this out and expect him to secure the GOP nomination on his fact-free platform.
I don't think they were expecting him to get the nomination; that was just a happy accident. The main idea is that he was to get in & appeal to the lowest common denominator, further tarnish the Republican brand, cause a lot of grief for whoever would be the eventual nominee (they were probably expecting Bush), and scare the left to rally behind Hillary.
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While that seems like the conventional wisdom, it does not appear to be the case. Even the DNC is concerned about stealing votes away from Johnson.
Agreed. Johnson is about as Libertarian as Clinton is Liberal. Johnson has been their champion for the better part of a decade and they've only seen their numbers get worse.
Factually wrong on every point. Johnson ran for the Libertarian nomination in 2012 after he didn't make it in the 2012 GOP primaries. In 2012, he got just about 1%. This year, he's polling anywhere between 8-13%. Even if he were to finish on the low end of that range, it would be a huge improvement over where they were in 2012.
Write ins are fine, also there is usually 20 or so Political Parties on the ballot in my state, Michigan, as well as most states. It's the nature of our Electoral College system and Federal Campaign Financing that pretty much insures only a Democrat or a Republican will be elected.
There will be 6 presidential candidates listed on the Michigan ballot. The first hurdle 3rd parties face is gaining ballot access. The second hurdle 3rd parties face is maintaining ballot access. 3rd parties typically have to spend so much time & effort gaining ballot access that it makes it even that much more difficult for them to ever get elected. I'm not a huge fan of Gary Johnson, but his positions align more closely to mine than Clinton or Trump, and I'd really like to see the LP get major party status in Michigan, so they don't have to keep on going through the same ballot access cycle every 2 years.
No worries. The mainstream media is already releasing every nasty thing on Trump they can dig up. Someone has to release nasty stuff on Hillary too, since it sure as shit isn't going to come from CNN.
And they're making sure that it is timed to come out at the exact same moment that any damaging info on Hillary comes out so as to neutralize it. Assange is no match for the main stream media. Besides, everybody already knew that Trump is like a drunken frat boy & Clinton is corrupt to the core. Neither of their supporters care about it in either case.
It's one judge in a sea of thousands of such judges. Don't hold your breath, skippy.
How does somebody on /. not notice that this is a conditional statement? It started with if . There is a good chance that this could be appealed, and possibly even go to the Supreme Court. If they held that software patents are invalid, then what I said would be true. Unfortunately, you can't rely on the Supreme Court to make the right decision, so I don't expect it to stand even if it makes it all the way there.
For me and you, you're absolutely right.
No, it pretty much matters for anyone who uses computers, and for the jobs they do with those computers. So basically the vast majority of people, even if they don't realize the underlying benefits.
a black person who doesn't want to get killed by twitchy cops....
I can understand your other points, but this one doesn't make any sense. This is currently happening under a black President with a black Attorney General.
This would have more impact than the presidential election. Software patents are a shackle on all programmers outside of megacorps that hold the patents.
Harambe got shot. Your argument is invalid.
TL;DW, a good first test (not only, just first) for whether a conspiracy theory might be true is "if true would this theory have a negative effect on rich people?"
While that seems like a good test, you still get a lot of rich people campaigning against GMO's, immunization & nuclear power. And there are different sets of rich people with different interests. The rich people in the fossil fuel industry probably have a different interest in the AGM debate versus the rich people in the renewable energy business.
No, I didn't. I haven't used it in a long time, so this may be a newer feature. Thanks for the tip, I'll have to check it out!
Another benefit I won't use from Amazon. Amazon Video has some good content, but they don't separate the free stuff from the pay stuff, which makes it a lot more difficult to browse through, so I just use Netflix.
I got Prime for the free 2-day shipping, and that only seems to happen once in a blue moon. I ordered some camping gear a week in advance of my trip, and only part of order was shipped. I received a notification the day before my trip that my other part of the order hadn't shipped yet, and wouldn't arrive until after my camping trip. They offer incentives for you to use slower shipping methods, they should give you credits toward your prime membership if you select 2-day shipping and the package arrives late.
...whether it adheres to capitalist principles or not...
It didn't. His company had a goverment granted monopoly which enabled him to do this. If it weren't for onerous FDA restrictions, several competitors on the market would have kept the price low, and Shkreli would have lost his shirt by doing this. Why don't you want to kick the FDA's teeth to the curb for preventing low prices in the marketplace?
Wait, this didn't happen in Texas?!?
My counter example is that 2 months ago Apple replaced the logic board in my early 2011 MacBook Pro totally for free, under the replacement plan for the design flaws in that system. And I didn't even buy this computer new, I bought it as a refurb from Apple, and the Apple Care that I bought when I purchased the computer had run out a long ago as well.
Apple is really good about repairing computers, especially under AppleCare. I've had issues with two Macs. The first was my 2007 TI PowerBook. The escape key stopped working on the keyboard. I had about 2 weeks left on AppleCare. They Fed-Exed me a box overnight, I sent it in, and had it back the same week. They not only replaced the keyboard, but the front bezel & the trackpad.
My 2008 24" iMac had a faulty logic board, and I live about 70 miles away from the closest Apple store. They sent out a repair guy to come to my workplace. The fix didn't work. It was near Christmas, so the next time they could send someone, my workplace was closed until after New Year's day. So they sent someone to my house. He couldn't get it working either. I brought it up to the Apple Store, and they replaced it with a new 2010 27" iMac. Although it was a frustrating process, I was pretty pleased with the outcome.
thousands upon thousands of iPhone 6 Pluses are completely losing their functionality under normal use...
I wonder what exactly they consider normal use? I have an iPhone 6 plus, and use it quite extensively. I like to play a few games (Marvel Puzzle Quest for example) that require quite a bit of tapping on the screen. I've played that for almost 2 years, and not noticed any degradation in touchscreen responsiveness. I wonder how many of these users are putting their phone in their back pocket & sitting on it?
Why "just" SVP ? Tim needs to time-share the CEO position with a women, a trans, a black, a blue, and a yellow.
Pardon my ignorance, what is "a blue?"
Finally, a major company is planning to compete with Uber in the ride-sharing service space.
I guess Lyft doesn't count?
Libertarian, too bad you can't find a candidate that isn't a non-interventionalist. Come on, Americans love to meddle. If you can't win this election you should just give up. Disband. Whatever parties do when they are no longer relevant.
Either you don't know what you're talking about, or you're purposely spreading misinformation. I have a lot of issues with Gary Johnson, but he's explicitly stated several times that he's in favor of non-intervention, and wants to cut military spending by 20%. This stance is popular with the troops, as Johnson leads both Clinton & Trump in that demographic.
I refuse to support the N. Korean regime at any level. Any growth in their GDP will be redirected to their military. Purchasing the Manbang it tantamount to putting a down payment on a noose; one thread at a time.
Wow, that's quite the courageous stance! How do you deal with the pressure of all of the door-to-door Manbang/other North Korean imports salesmen these days?
Would you rather people take assholes to court or just cut to the chase and punch them in the face?
How about just finding another baker or photographer? No need for violence. And yes, litigation is violence, because it's enforced by men with guns.
Again, it's only of interest re diversity if there is a detectable problem , so if you have evidence of one you should post it.
Oh, I'm not saying it's a problem. I'm saying that there's more to diversity than what the diversity echo chamber says there is.
How in the heck do they expect to get equal numbers of female and male people into programming jobs in the field. It would seem 'equal' hiring would be around 18% of the population of programmers to make it apples to apples. That would indicate 'fair' hiring.
That's easy: hire unqualified candidates.
More proof of systemic racism: even though the white recruiters were given an incentive to hire for diversity, their innate racist tendencies overrode that incentive and they continued to hire cisgender white males.
I know you're being sarcastic, but I have to wonder why race & sex are usually the only criteria for "diversity"? I'd be willing to bet that most tech companies have a much higher proportion of LGBTQXYZ employees & also more atheists. Why aren't things like sexual preference or religious affiliation considered in these statistics?
just feeling nostalgic for news for nerds.
But not stuff that matters?
It would have taken some extreme foresight to plan this out and expect him to secure the GOP nomination on his fact-free platform.
I don't think they were expecting him to get the nomination; that was just a happy accident. The main idea is that he was to get in & appeal to the lowest common denominator, further tarnish the Republican brand, cause a lot of grief for whoever would be the eventual nominee (they were probably expecting Bush), and scare the left to rally behind Hillary.