but America won't be taking away their most favorite nation status anytime soon. Meanwhile our close allies the Saudis are seeking the death penalty for a peaceful protestor who demanded women's rights. Last I checked we're still selling them bombs and they're still dropping them on school buses in Yemen.
It's all well and good to say "Fuck so and so" but until you vote people into office who will actually get tough on human rights abuses it's pissing in the wind.
that's poor information. The reason they're not coming anymore is they fixed their Databases and they're not wasting their time trying to get out the vote to the wrong people.
I don't "say voter suppression". You make it sound like a difference of opinion. It's not. I'm sorry, but it's like we're arguing if the sky is blue. There is overwhelming. You living in a state that is intentionally suppressing the vote. They're doing this to support a right wing, pro-corporate agenda. You might agree with that agenda and be willing to ignore the suppression. But it doesn't make the suppression any less real or the sky any less blue...
I'm typically answering detailed tech questions over it. I don't spend a lot of time reading over emails I don't do anything with. If I'm reading an email it's for a reason and there will be some kind of resultant business process to go with it.
and say that if they're brought in the FBI it's something more than just a random hit to their IP address.
The hacking of the DNC really ought to be a bigger scandal than it was, and if our media was doing it's job of investigative journalism it would be. There's strong evidence that the Russians got ahold of voter rolls and send them on to the Republican party and/or the Trump campaign. There was a sudden shift in the Trump campaign's ad buys and campaigning where it became highly effective for no discernible reason, and it was right around when the hack happened....
One of the reasons I'd really love to see basic income become a thing is that it would pay for people to be investigative journalists. Combine basic income with the internet's cheap ability to distribute information. and we'd have a winning formula for one of the most important aspects of democracy, the free press. As it stands there's little work being done to investigate Trump won outside of the Mueller probe, and given the political situation that may fizzle out whereas independent journalism might hit a Watergate style breakthrough.
see here. 538 is a well respected political blog. They've got plenty of research to back up how voter Ids laws disproportionately impact minorities and in turn disproportionately benefit Republicans.
If you're OK with voter suppression then by all means, support voter Id. Just understand that you're opposing democracy. You may have your reasons. You may earnestly believe those people shouldn't be allowed to vote. But you should at least be aware of what your support for Voter Id laws is actually doing and not delude yourself into thinking you're protecting democracy.
multiple studies have shown people under high stress make poor choices. It's one of the reasons the cycle of poverty exits.
As for bad investments, the rich make them all the time. 80% of startups fail and they make their money on the 20%. The difference between a rich man and a poor man is the rich man can spread risk around in such a way to always make a profit. They're like bookie.
What I mostly saw from small investors was folks who had a small amount of savings (under $50k, often _well_ under $50k...) and were nearing the age where they couldn't work anymore. Buddy of mine's in that boat. Not a lot of skills. Not a bad guy just kind of a flake. Hard worker but hard work can only take you so far. Parents are still alive and a pretty big burden on him too. He got stuck taking care of them in a town with no jobs.
He threw a little of his savings at crypto because he's desperate and doesn't know what else to do. It's not "someone dumber" it's "maybe this'll work, and I've got very little to lose". It's like buying a lottery ticket. It's desperate hope of the kind that we wouldn't need if we had a better safety net and retirement system.
because I'm renting it. If there's something on Netflix I want enough to have it permanently I can buy it on DVD/Blue Ray and break the encryption to back it up.
in my state a utility bill is enough. If Voter Id laws already existed we wouldn't be talking about passing them. Voter Id laws mean a state issued Id. It's been shown repeatably that State Issued Ids are intentionally difficult to get and maintain for poor people. Again, spend some time on google and you can confirm this. You don't have to take my word for it.
if the games work? I suppose you might give up a few FPS here and there, but it's 2018 so I just don't feel the need to count every frame like I did in the 90s when I was pushing the limits at 20 fps.
a. It's been shown to be unnecessary. Voter fraud is not the problem. The problem is the election officials cheating. Go google the actual research on voter fraud and you'll find this out.
b. It's also been clearly shown to be a suppression tactic. Republican official have been caught several times doing research to prove that it targets their opposition (minorities and women mostly), that the fees associated with the Ids are defacto poll taxes and that the laws exist only to prevent legitimate voters. This is why the laws have been struct down over and over again.
Anyone who suggests voter Id is a solution to fraud is lying to you and opposes democracy. You should be highly suspicious of them and their motives. Again, spend a few hours on google and you can corroborate all this yourself. If you want voter Id to stop the "wrong" persons from voting then I can't really argue with that. But if you actually believe in democracy then you should oppose it.
and has been ruled as such multiple times. The scam isn't even that complex. Women tend to lean a bit left so it's beneficial to make it harder for them to vote (when they marry and their names change they need new Ids). It's easy to close the DMVs and other places where a voter could get Id. Finally fees can be attached to getting an id creating a defacto poll tax that seems small unless you're poor.
Multiple emails have leaked where Republican leaders didn't just talk about how these factors made voter Id a suppression technique but where they did the research to prove that it was before they put the effort into passing it. Those leaked emails have been what's caused voter Id to be thrown out where ever it's been tried. The Republicans have noticed this and are working to stack the courts with judges who will ignore the rule of law. So far they're succeeding.
If you're involved enough in politics to know about voter Id laws you are probably aware of all this. If not then I trust you no longer favor voter Id. If you are somehow still in favor of voter Id knowing all this then it's clear you oppose democracy. If that's the case then just come right out and say it. I'm tired of listening to dog whistles.
at that level of wealth they typically have their own private security, fire and health services. One of the problems with modern capitalism is that the ultra wealthy have built their own economy. It doesn't matter to them if the commons goes to hell anymore.
With little training driving on personal insurance. Sooner or later one of them is going to cause a big enough wreck that nobody wants to pay for it and the person they hit is screwed. Nevermind that when you get hit by an Uber driver they've got incentive to try and drive off....
and the phrase "far left leaning" is kind of silly. You can't "Lean" far left, you either are or you aren't far left.
As for CA, they elected Arnold Schwarzenegger until he ran out of terms and have large swaths of rich, right wing areas. They couldn't even get single payer through. I'd hardly call them left wing let alone far left.
Mobile companies are phone companies. False dichotomy / common carrier. Twitter moderates their content. They lose common carrier and also gain responsibility for that content. If they know someone on their forum is a clear and present danger they have a legal responsibility to report them and remove them.
The point of this is to turn Internet into a TV like model where they can sell you packages of various sites at various tiers while also charging those sites for access to "their" users. There's nothing quiet about that, they'll advertise it front and center. IIRC Portugal is already doing just that (might've got the country wrong, but there's one out there that never had NN)
it's the rest of America that's skewed to the right of the Overton window. America started a move right when Bill Clinton took the Whitehouse by shifting the Democratic party to the right with a new breed of socially liberal economically right wing "corporate" Dems. The Republicans needed to preserve a separate brand and moved right themselves, and, well, here we are.
Meanwhile the rest of the civilized world has Single Payer healthcare, robust safety nets and environmental regulations and generally better standards of living (I know, I know, I can already hear the shouts of "But Venezuela". All I can say is you try being a tiny nation just who recently clawed its way out of third world status and having the largest government in the free world slap you with sanctions while your only natural resource plummets in value and let me know how that turns out for you).
What I'm saying is, leave your echo chamber and enter the world at large. Democratic Socialism (not to be confused with fascism that occasionally prints a copy of the Communist Manifesto) is working for the rest of the world very, very well. There's no shortage of empirical evidence for that. Meanwhile I'll refer you to the smoldering crater that is Kansas' economy and education system, the aftermath of the Great Depression and the 18th century robber Barrons for what happens when capitalism is left to it's own devices. The facts just aren't on the side of the right wing. If you're going to hang out on a science and technology focused forum you should do your own investigation and then recognize that.
for a top end part. Right now AMD doesn't really have anything close to it either. The Vega line isn't bad but even the 1080 beats it on price, performance and even power consumption and heat. AMD does better in the mid range. The RX 580 can be had for $230 on sale with 8gb of RAM and while it's slower than a 1060 (it's nearest competitor) that will change as newer games want that extra 2gb.
That said, AMD's had a mountain of driver issues for a long, long time. I've heard they're better now, but I still see more posts on steam forums when games launch complaining about compatibility. That alone has led to a bit of a price premium for nVidia hardware.
except the politicians who got big campaign contributions. It was only a handful of jobs. Nobody's going to much notice the tax dollars. They _will_ notice their taxes go up to pay the subsidies though. But, well, I hate to say it but they'll probably blame those tax and spend liberals...
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but America won't be taking away their most favorite nation status anytime soon. Meanwhile our close allies the Saudis are seeking the death penalty for a peaceful protestor who demanded women's rights. Last I checked we're still selling them bombs and they're still dropping them on school buses in Yemen.
It's all well and good to say "Fuck so and so" but until you vote people into office who will actually get tough on human rights abuses it's pissing in the wind.
what I took away was "Go buy an AMD processor".
that's poor information. The reason they're not coming anymore is they fixed their Databases and they're not wasting their time trying to get out the vote to the wrong people.
I don't "say voter suppression". You make it sound like a difference of opinion. It's not. I'm sorry, but it's like we're arguing if the sky is blue. There is overwhelming. You living in a state that is intentionally suppressing the vote. They're doing this to support a right wing, pro-corporate agenda. You might agree with that agenda and be willing to ignore the suppression. But it doesn't make the suppression any less real or the sky any less blue...
e.g. not with full address information let alone any demographics and the like.
I'm typically answering detailed tech questions over it. I don't spend a lot of time reading over emails I don't do anything with. If I'm reading an email it's for a reason and there will be some kind of resultant business process to go with it.
and say that if they're brought in the FBI it's something more than just a random hit to their IP address.
The hacking of the DNC really ought to be a bigger scandal than it was, and if our media was doing it's job of investigative journalism it would be. There's strong evidence that the Russians got ahold of voter rolls and send them on to the Republican party and/or the Trump campaign. There was a sudden shift in the Trump campaign's ad buys and campaigning where it became highly effective for no discernible reason, and it was right around when the hack happened....
One of the reasons I'd really love to see basic income become a thing is that it would pay for people to be investigative journalists. Combine basic income with the internet's cheap ability to distribute information. and we'd have a winning formula for one of the most important aspects of democracy, the free press. As it stands there's little work being done to investigate Trump won outside of the Mueller probe, and given the political situation that may fizzle out whereas independent journalism might hit a Watergate style breakthrough.
Geez, and my crummy ISP only lets me do 10mb of attachments.
see here. 538 is a well respected political blog. They've got plenty of research to back up how voter Ids laws disproportionately impact minorities and in turn disproportionately benefit Republicans.
If you're OK with voter suppression then by all means, support voter Id. Just understand that you're opposing democracy. You may have your reasons. You may earnestly believe those people shouldn't be allowed to vote. But you should at least be aware of what your support for Voter Id laws is actually doing and not delude yourself into thinking you're protecting democracy.
multiple studies have shown people under high stress make poor choices. It's one of the reasons the cycle of poverty exits.
As for bad investments, the rich make them all the time. 80% of startups fail and they make their money on the 20%. The difference between a rich man and a poor man is the rich man can spread risk around in such a way to always make a profit. They're like bookie.
What I mostly saw from small investors was folks who had a small amount of savings (under $50k, often _well_ under $50k...) and were nearing the age where they couldn't work anymore. Buddy of mine's in that boat. Not a lot of skills. Not a bad guy just kind of a flake. Hard worker but hard work can only take you so far. Parents are still alive and a pretty big burden on him too. He got stuck taking care of them in a town with no jobs.
He threw a little of his savings at crypto because he's desperate and doesn't know what else to do. It's not "someone dumber" it's "maybe this'll work, and I've got very little to lose". It's like buying a lottery ticket. It's desperate hope of the kind that we wouldn't need if we had a better safety net and retirement system.
because I'm renting it. If there's something on Netflix I want enough to have it permanently I can buy it on DVD/Blue Ray and break the encryption to back it up.
in my state a utility bill is enough. If Voter Id laws already existed we wouldn't be talking about passing them. Voter Id laws mean a state issued Id. It's been shown repeatably that State Issued Ids are intentionally difficult to get and maintain for poor people. Again, spend some time on google and you can confirm this. You don't have to take my word for it.
if the games work? I suppose you might give up a few FPS here and there, but it's 2018 so I just don't feel the need to count every frame like I did in the 90s when I was pushing the limits at 20 fps.
because:
a. It's been shown to be unnecessary. Voter fraud is not the problem. The problem is the election officials cheating. Go google the actual research on voter fraud and you'll find this out.
b. It's also been clearly shown to be a suppression tactic. Republican official have been caught several times doing research to prove that it targets their opposition (minorities and women mostly), that the fees associated with the Ids are defacto poll taxes and that the laws exist only to prevent legitimate voters. This is why the laws have been struct down over and over again.
Anyone who suggests voter Id is a solution to fraud is lying to you and opposes democracy. You should be highly suspicious of them and their motives. Again, spend a few hours on google and you can corroborate all this yourself. If you want voter Id to stop the "wrong" persons from voting then I can't really argue with that. But if you actually believe in democracy then you should oppose it.
and has been ruled as such multiple times. The scam isn't even that complex. Women tend to lean a bit left so it's beneficial to make it harder for them to vote (when they marry and their names change they need new Ids). It's easy to close the DMVs and other places where a voter could get Id. Finally fees can be attached to getting an id creating a defacto poll tax that seems small unless you're poor.
Multiple emails have leaked where Republican leaders didn't just talk about how these factors made voter Id a suppression technique but where they did the research to prove that it was before they put the effort into passing it. Those leaked emails have been what's caused voter Id to be thrown out where ever it's been tried. The Republicans have noticed this and are working to stack the courts with judges who will ignore the rule of law. So far they're succeeding.
If you're involved enough in politics to know about voter Id laws you are probably aware of all this. If not then I trust you no longer favor voter Id. If you are somehow still in favor of voter Id knowing all this then it's clear you oppose democracy. If that's the case then just come right out and say it. I'm tired of listening to dog whistles.
at that level of wealth they typically have their own private security, fire and health services. One of the problems with modern capitalism is that the ultra wealthy have built their own economy. It doesn't matter to them if the commons goes to hell anymore.
you need data to back up your assertions.
With little training driving on personal insurance. Sooner or later one of them is going to cause a big enough wreck that nobody wants to pay for it and the person they hit is screwed. Nevermind that when you get hit by an Uber driver they've got incentive to try and drive off....
and the phrase "far left leaning" is kind of silly. You can't "Lean" far left, you either are or you aren't far left.
As for CA, they elected Arnold Schwarzenegger until he ran out of terms and have large swaths of rich, right wing areas. They couldn't even get single payer through. I'd hardly call them left wing let alone far left.
Mobile companies are phone companies. False dichotomy / common carrier. Twitter moderates their content. They lose common carrier and also gain responsibility for that content. If they know someone on their forum is a clear and present danger they have a legal responsibility to report them and remove them.
The point of this is to turn Internet into a TV like model where they can sell you packages of various sites at various tiers while also charging those sites for access to "their" users. There's nothing quiet about that, they'll advertise it front and center. IIRC Portugal is already doing just that (might've got the country wrong, but there's one out there that never had NN)
and more to do with a soft economic situation combined with rising cable tv costs.
it's the rest of America that's skewed to the right of the Overton window. America started a move right when Bill Clinton took the Whitehouse by shifting the Democratic party to the right with a new breed of socially liberal economically right wing "corporate" Dems. The Republicans needed to preserve a separate brand and moved right themselves, and, well, here we are.
Meanwhile the rest of the civilized world has Single Payer healthcare, robust safety nets and environmental regulations and generally better standards of living (I know, I know, I can already hear the shouts of "But Venezuela". All I can say is you try being a tiny nation just who recently clawed its way out of third world status and having the largest government in the free world slap you with sanctions while your only natural resource plummets in value and let me know how that turns out for you).
What I'm saying is, leave your echo chamber and enter the world at large. Democratic Socialism (not to be confused with fascism that occasionally prints a copy of the Communist Manifesto) is working for the rest of the world very, very well. There's no shortage of empirical evidence for that. Meanwhile I'll refer you to the smoldering crater that is Kansas' economy and education system, the aftermath of the Great Depression and the 18th century robber Barrons for what happens when capitalism is left to it's own devices. The facts just aren't on the side of the right wing. If you're going to hang out on a science and technology focused forum you should do your own investigation and then recognize that.
you don't buy it for price/performance. You buy it because money isn't an object and you just plain _want_ it.
for a top end part. Right now AMD doesn't really have anything close to it either. The Vega line isn't bad but even the 1080 beats it on price, performance and even power consumption and heat. AMD does better in the mid range. The RX 580 can be had for $230 on sale with 8gb of RAM and while it's slower than a 1060 (it's nearest competitor) that will change as newer games want that extra 2gb.
That said, AMD's had a mountain of driver issues for a long, long time. I've heard they're better now, but I still see more posts on steam forums when games launch complaining about compatibility. That alone has led to a bit of a price premium for nVidia hardware.
except the politicians who got big campaign contributions. It was only a handful of jobs. Nobody's going to much notice the tax dollars. They _will_ notice their taxes go up to pay the subsidies though. But, well, I hate to say it but they'll probably blame those tax and spend liberals...