I kind of feel that the two party system is designed to divide people. Both parties tend to be extreme in their viewpoints and I often find myself not liking either candidate much at all. I was so disgusted by Mitt Romney in the last election that I didn't even cast a vote for president, skipping over that part of the ballot. If that's the best the Republican party has to offer I'll pass. I'm not the only conservative that's had it with the dirty money guys that run the Republican party, that's why Trump is doing so well. They were determined to ram Jeb Bush down our throats but that's not working out that well for them. I'm not a Trump fan but I am enjoying the mayhem he's created. I kind of like Rubio but I think he needs another couple of Senate terms before he's ready. We don't need another inexperienced former Senator in the oval office. I like Bernie Sanders' honesty. He's way too socialistic but I'd take him over Mrs. Clinton any day.
People and their opinions have a huge influence on politics. Feeling as I do about abortion I almost never vote for a pro abortion candidate. There are exceptions but they are very rare. I might conceivably vote for someone who is pro abortion but only where the other candidates are heinous. I can say that the front runners in the Republican race just make me sad. I don't think I could vote for Bernie Sanders though, even though I kind of like him on a personal level.
The main point to this issue is when human life begins. It begins with conception. At that point a human being starts. Is it a person? Well no it's not. It is human and it is alive. It depends on it's mother for everything at that point but really even after birth that is true as well, for a long period a human infant is totally at the mercy of it's environment. Sure slaughter is a harsh word but if one thinks that life starts at conception then abortion is a horrid thing. I'm hoping you and your wife never face such a terrible choice. Unlike so many of the abortion protesters I have nothing but sorrow for the people that choose abortion. I can understand the pressures on young women who through bad choices find themselves in such a desperate situation that they can choose to end a life. It's a choice that they will always have to live with. I don't hate them but I feel it's necessary to call abortion what it is. In the overwhelming majority of cases it is retroactive birth control. We can limit that without forcing people to carry defective fetuses to term. We live in a secular society with a secular government and as such compromise is required but I think that most people feel that use of abortion for retroactive birth control is wrong.
It's a slaughter is it not? The term is correct. Many non-religious people oppose abortion but virtually all the organized opposition comes from church and other religious groups. I know many who are sort of ambivalent about it. They think it's wrong but feel the child is better off dead than born unwanted. I myself would like to see free and very available contraceptives. It's horrid to use abortion for retroactive birth control.
No one cares. She's Hillary and it's all just a big neo-con conspiracy to deny us the greatest woman ever. She's Mother Teresa and Eleanor Roosevelt rolled into one.
How about teaching English, Math, Science and such first? US students are in many cases barely able to read and fail miserably at math. Let's get everyone up to a first world level before we worry about computer science for everyone. CS should be an elective.
I dispute the disagreement with Planned Parenthood's abortion efforts being religious only. You don't have to believe in God to oppose the slaughter of the unborn. Sure the churches are the loudest voices but I know plenty of non-believers who oppose abortion. Just because "Thou shalt not kill" is one of the 10 commandments from the bible doesn't invalidate it for most people.
I don't think the windows phone is dead either. It's on life support and has been since it's inception. Microsoft does have the money to keep it on life support forever if it wishes. They have the money to bleed for years and years until the finally somehow find a way to succeed in the phone market. It's only a matter of whether they have the will. Sony helped the Xbox succeed by repeatedly stabbing themselves in the eye. I suppose microsoft is hoping the same will happen with iOS and Android.
I understand it. It doesn't make me hate them less though. I can't do anything about it, not really but I fuck them every little way I can. When Nvidia started making their cards work on Linux, even though it was with a binary blob, I was so happy I haven't built a Radeon (now AMD) system since. It's insignificant and petty I know.....but I don't care. Every single friend or coworker or family member's computer I've built in all those years contained an Nvidia graphics card. All because of a snarky support tech.
I generally drive at least 32 miles per day minimum. That's work and back. A lot of my co-workers drive 100 or more miles round trip commute per day. That's not the problem though. If I have to take care of business after work it'll mean a lot more miles. At least one day per week I can count on up to 80 to 100 miles extra. That leaves aside weekends. I don't live in an urban area but it's not rural either. My county has about 140 thousand people and the county directly North of mine has a population around 155 thousand. Several cities and towns encompass this area and traffic in my county shows tags from 5 or 6 other counties. A lot of traffic in a region that has one city of around 100,000. The city is Macon, GA and it's the center of a lot of commercial activity including multiple counties with a combined population of over half a million people. To be a non-urban area the traffic can be hell. I often drive 300 miles and never leave the area. I wouldn't mind having a little battery powered commuter car for work and back but for a truck being used to run deliveries I'd really want 300 miles on a charge.
Apple doesn't make video cards. I've had to deal with shit like this on a Mac too. Too many times I bought things that supposedly had Mac drivers but they were out of date and didn't work with the latest version of the OS. When you call them they act just like they do to linux users. The sneer in their voice is audible.
The problem with electrical vehicles in the US is the range. With the exception of commuter vehicles they need to have a minimum 300 mile range per charge. We desperately need some kind of practical electrical storage.
Most people buy trucks to have a real vehicle. It's impossible to find a "full" size car. If you want room and comfort a pickup truck is where it's at.
I'm okay with ads but lately they've gotten overly aggressive. Sites have a right to ask you to turn off adblock or deny service. I'm fine with that, I routinely put those sites in my blacklist. Adblockplus allows reasonable ads, these sites aren't happy with reasonable, they want to stick it in your face and drown you with them. The site is often unusable due to all the popups and crap demanding your attention. If this is what they want I'm ready to go back to using Lynx.
I use adblockplus and it allows reasonable ads. I'm okay with that. I've seen many sites that request I turn off adblock. I did that one time and never again. It's like I got assaulted. Now if they demand the adblocker be turned off I simply blacklist that site. I do have an exception list in my browser for some websites but those are all sites I need to use and they don't act stupid. A site has the right to refuse me service if I use an adblocker and I have a right to use one for self defense. I don't need any site badly enough to take shit off of them. There are too many options out there.
But local passenger rail is a benefit to everyone as it helps take cars off the road. As such it is a good target for government subsidy. It helps unclog traffic and reduce pollution. I remember taking the train in Germany many times when I was stationed there. Convenient, fast and on time it made getting around in an area where traffic and parking were hell much nicer.
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I kind of feel that the two party system is designed to divide people. Both parties tend to be extreme in their viewpoints and I often find myself not liking either candidate much at all. I was so disgusted by Mitt Romney in the last election that I didn't even cast a vote for president, skipping over that part of the ballot. If that's the best the Republican party has to offer I'll pass. I'm not the only conservative that's had it with the dirty money guys that run the Republican party, that's why Trump is doing so well. They were determined to ram Jeb Bush down our throats but that's not working out that well for them. I'm not a Trump fan but I am enjoying the mayhem he's created. I kind of like Rubio but I think he needs another couple of Senate terms before he's ready. We don't need another inexperienced former Senator in the oval office. I like Bernie Sanders' honesty. He's way too socialistic but I'd take him over Mrs. Clinton any day.
People and their opinions have a huge influence on politics. Feeling as I do about abortion I almost never vote for a pro abortion candidate. There are exceptions but they are very rare. I might conceivably vote for someone who is pro abortion but only where the other candidates are heinous. I can say that the front runners in the Republican race just make me sad. I don't think I could vote for Bernie Sanders though, even though I kind of like him on a personal level.
The main point to this issue is when human life begins. It begins with conception. At that point a human being starts. Is it a person? Well no it's not. It is human and it is alive. It depends on it's mother for everything at that point but really even after birth that is true as well, for a long period a human infant is totally at the mercy of it's environment. Sure slaughter is a harsh word but if one thinks that life starts at conception then abortion is a horrid thing. I'm hoping you and your wife never face such a terrible choice. Unlike so many of the abortion protesters I have nothing but sorrow for the people that choose abortion. I can understand the pressures on young women who through bad choices find themselves in such a desperate situation that they can choose to end a life. It's a choice that they will always have to live with. I don't hate them but I feel it's necessary to call abortion what it is. In the overwhelming majority of cases it is retroactive birth control. We can limit that without forcing people to carry defective fetuses to term. We live in a secular society with a secular government and as such compromise is required but I think that most people feel that use of abortion for retroactive birth control is wrong.
It's a slaughter is it not? The term is correct. Many non-religious people oppose abortion but virtually all the organized opposition comes from church and other religious groups. I know many who are sort of ambivalent about it. They think it's wrong but feel the child is better off dead than born unwanted. I myself would like to see free and very available contraceptives. It's horrid to use abortion for retroactive birth control.
The US government is heavily into outlook. Think of how many millions of installations that is.
No one cares. She's Hillary and it's all just a big neo-con conspiracy to deny us the greatest woman ever. She's Mother Teresa and Eleanor Roosevelt rolled into one.
How about teaching English, Math, Science and such first? US students are in many cases barely able to read and fail miserably at math. Let's get everyone up to a first world level before we worry about computer science for everyone. CS should be an elective.
They want to kill us!
I dispute the disagreement with Planned Parenthood's abortion efforts being religious only. You don't have to believe in God to oppose the slaughter of the unborn. Sure the churches are the loudest voices but I know plenty of non-believers who oppose abortion. Just because "Thou shalt not kill" is one of the 10 commandments from the bible doesn't invalidate it for most people.
Congress?
Of course the web isn't the internet. There are many ways around it.
I don't think the windows phone is dead either. It's on life support and has been since it's inception. Microsoft does have the money to keep it on life support forever if it wishes. They have the money to bleed for years and years until the finally somehow find a way to succeed in the phone market. It's only a matter of whether they have the will. Sony helped the Xbox succeed by repeatedly stabbing themselves in the eye. I suppose microsoft is hoping the same will happen with iOS and Android.
I understand it. It doesn't make me hate them less though. I can't do anything about it, not really but I fuck them every little way I can. When Nvidia started making their cards work on Linux, even though it was with a binary blob, I was so happy I haven't built a Radeon (now AMD) system since. It's insignificant and petty I know.....but I don't care. Every single friend or coworker or family member's computer I've built in all those years contained an Nvidia graphics card. All because of a snarky support tech.
I generally drive at least 32 miles per day minimum. That's work and back. A lot of my co-workers drive 100 or more miles round trip commute per day. That's not the problem though. If I have to take care of business after work it'll mean a lot more miles. At least one day per week I can count on up to 80 to 100 miles extra. That leaves aside weekends. I don't live in an urban area but it's not rural either. My county has about 140 thousand people and the county directly North of mine has a population around 155 thousand. Several cities and towns encompass this area and traffic in my county shows tags from 5 or 6 other counties. A lot of traffic in a region that has one city of around 100,000. The city is Macon, GA and it's the center of a lot of commercial activity including multiple counties with a combined population of over half a million people. To be a non-urban area the traffic can be hell. I often drive 300 miles and never leave the area. I wouldn't mind having a little battery powered commuter car for work and back but for a truck being used to run deliveries I'd really want 300 miles on a charge.
At the very least you know where the money is.
They don't mind shitting on Mac users either. They suck microsoft dick hard, it's where the money is at and they are whores after all.
Apple doesn't make video cards. I've had to deal with shit like this on a Mac too. Too many times I bought things that supposedly had Mac drivers but they were out of date and didn't work with the latest version of the OS. When you call them they act just like they do to linux users. The sneer in their voice is audible.
Exactly. Don't buy the damn thing.
The problem with electrical vehicles in the US is the range. With the exception of commuter vehicles they need to have a minimum 300 mile range per charge. We desperately need some kind of practical electrical storage.
Most people buy trucks to have a real vehicle. It's impossible to find a "full" size car. If you want room and comfort a pickup truck is where it's at.
I'm okay with ads but lately they've gotten overly aggressive. Sites have a right to ask you to turn off adblock or deny service. I'm fine with that, I routinely put those sites in my blacklist. Adblockplus allows reasonable ads, these sites aren't happy with reasonable, they want to stick it in your face and drown you with them. The site is often unusable due to all the popups and crap demanding your attention. If this is what they want I'm ready to go back to using Lynx.
I use adblockplus and it allows reasonable ads. I'm okay with that. I've seen many sites that request I turn off adblock. I did that one time and never again. It's like I got assaulted. Now if they demand the adblocker be turned off I simply blacklist that site. I do have an exception list in my browser for some websites but those are all sites I need to use and they don't act stupid. A site has the right to refuse me service if I use an adblocker and I have a right to use one for self defense. I don't need any site badly enough to take shit off of them. There are too many options out there.
But local passenger rail is a benefit to everyone as it helps take cars off the road. As such it is a good target for government subsidy. It helps unclog traffic and reduce pollution. I remember taking the train in Germany many times when I was stationed there. Convenient, fast and on time it made getting around in an area where traffic and parking were hell much nicer.
No one gives a shit about the 10th. The supremes completely ignore it like it's not even there. The 4th isn't far behind.
It's all about infrastructure. It makes commerce for everyone possible. Even libertarians love infrastructure.