Playing Devil's Advocate...
I have seen some steam games with a warning "Not Optimized for Windows 7". Little, unknown games like, say, Fallout 3.
What this REALLY means is that it probably won't run correctly on Windows 7 or later.
The Republicans specifically warned that this "treaty" was not a treaty and did not have the force of law. The Democrats raised hell about that too. See Republicans Draw White House Ire for Warning to Iran. As they warned, "The next President could revoke such an executive agreement with the stroke of a pen, and future Congresses could modify the terms of the agreement at any time."
This is just one of several examples of President "I Won" Obama's "a pen and a phone" strategy to avoid dealing with Republicans. The only thing that went wrong is that Hillary Clinton wasn't elected for the next eight years to continue them and instead we got a guy with an eraser.
Whether you think the agreement was for good or for bad, nothing happened here that should be a surprise to anyone. Don't forget that Obama reversed a lot of Bush orders, too. Why did anyone expect Obama orders to go untouched?
There's a reason that the US Constitution makes it hard to do things without a consensus, and especially makes it hard for a President to rule by decree. Don't take shortcuts if you want something to last.
Maybe it would be good for everyone who believes that government is the answer for everything and have more power to remember... Occasionally the Other Side will be in control and use that power for things you don't like.
Solution: don't give the government any more power than you'd want the Other Side to have.
Remember about how about 10 years ago Democrats were gloating about how those old, rickety Republicans were at a tremendous disadvantage because they didn't know how to leverage the internet and social media? It sounds to me like they figured out how to use social media AS THE GREAT DATA SPONGE IT WAS DESIGNED TO BE perfectly fine. The indignation is that the "wrong" people figured it out.
The "shame" is on everyone who freely gives out their personal information for, what? Nothing at all. Here you go, world! I'm so important that I'm sure that EVERYONE wants to know everything about me and exactly what I did today!
Why in the world does everyone want to spew out everything about themselves and then cry that they have no privacy?
Looking at state poverty rates, the second highest is Florida's 19 percent, followed by New York's and Louisiana's shared 17.9 percent rate. The national average is 15.1 percent using the supplemental measure.
"I think Assemblymember Mayes' comments are accurate," said Chris Hoene, executive director of the left-leaning California Budget Policy Center, which has closely studied poverty in the state.
Hoene said the high poverty rate in the supplemental report is driven by California's stratospheric housing costs. He added that use of the supplemental measure has gained wide acceptance among researchers.
"I think in most quarters, that's not disputed," he said.
Marybeth Mattingly, a researcher at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality added by email: "Basically, yes, this statement is (sadly) accurate."
So, you can live in beautiful place with beautiful weather or an ugly place with horrible weather. It's not that different economically.
The person working at McDonalds or in the cafeteria at one of those glossy high tech centers might not agree with you. You either have a good job with high pay (compared to the same job elsewhere, like your wife) or you're in a world of hurt.
While it sneers at those "poor" Red states, wonderful, liberal California is one of the worse places in the nation for income inequality, and the large low end is in real poverty.
With all the recent hoopla about California's record-low unemployment rate and the heady prospect of its becoming No. 5 in global economic rankings, it is easy to lose sight of another salient fact: It is the nation's most poverty-stricken state.
And when California residents ridicule Red states for lack of education, remember:
Other California metropolitan areas string out below, but the most startling revelation is that the bottom 10 - the nation's least educated communities - include five from California, Salinas (144), Fresno (145), Modesto (146), Bakersfield (147) and Visalia-Porterville (148).
Finally I'm not part of the problem. I have some shirts in my closet that I still occasionally wear that are literally older than my children, the older of which is a freshman at ASU.
It amazes me that people want to defend the SWATter by essentially calling this a Prank Call while heaping hate on the police.
A prank call is "Mike Hunt". Calling 911 with the intent to provoke an armed police response to what they believe is a hostage situation with a fatality is not a prank call. If nothing happened it's still reckless endangerment because he intended to put the person at risk (although "intent" is not required, just disregard for the outcome), even if he did not desire the person's death. Since "deadly weapons" were involved, it's a felony in a lot (if not most) places.
$349 for a Science Fiction hand-held computer that can access information anywhere on the planet, or talk to anyone in the US and many foreign countries for basically free, or find directions from wherever you happen to be (and it can be unknown to you) to wherever you want to go. For a device that totally changed society (for the good or the bad). For less than the price of four Phoenix Comicon Full Event passes.
I used to look books up in a card catalog. I used to pay Long Distance. I used to buy maps (AAA Triptik anyone?).
Yeah, that sounds pretty cheap to me.
You can get a damn good $199 Moto G5 Plus from Amazon or Newegg if it isn't. I use a One Plus 3T myself.
You have to make housing that costs so damn much that even professionals need roommates to afford it sound good somehow. So drop the term "roommates" and had some cool-sounding made up euphemism and now it's GOOD that you can't afford your own apartment or house.
Seriously, how housing prices be sustained in places where you can only afford to buy a house when you already have one there to sell?
In the ideal world, no government at any level would apply any unbalanced subsidy or tax on any business or private entity. There would be no tax breaks for building a plant, no subsidy for putting solar panels on your roof, and no star-struck local officials screwing their taxpayers financing a sports stadium (see Glendale and the Arizona Coyotes situation or the Diamondbacks trying to extort improvements under the guise of maintenance from Maricopa County).
Unfortunately we do not live in an ideal world. Tax code and public spending are used to punish and reward all the time.
And just because you happen to LIKE one particular subsidy doesn't negate the fact that it's still crony capitalism. I read earlier this week that Elon Musk's companies have received subsidies and "green" tax benefits equal to half of his considerable net worth.
With Democrats all but guaranteed to win New York, Chicago, and California by massive margins (and the electoral votes of that state), it is likely to occur any time a Republican is elected. All of Hillary's popular margin is accounted for by her margin in LA County, Cook County (Chicago), and pick three of NYC boroughs. A Republican will always start with the electoral and popular vote deficits from those areas. Unless something would happen to cause a sea change in this regard, it would be a true wonder if a Republican candidate could ever overcome this deficit to the extent needed to score a "landslide" victory. Instead, Republican wins will be by tight margins and possibly a negative margin in the popular vote.
This is one reason that electoral votes are by state, so that a massive win in one area or a small group of areas doesn't drown out the vote of the rest of the country. This is also the basic reason that all states, small and large, have equal voice in the Senate (and why senators where originally selected by the state instead of the people of the state until the 17th amendment).
The real solution here is relatively frequent backups, multiple copies in different filesystem and physical formats (ie. flash, hard drive, optical). Over time you just keep moving your file store to the new mediums. I have files that are over twenty five years old now, some of them coming from DOS and Windows 3.1, others from my old original Slackware 3 installs. Along the way some of those files have been on CD-Rs, DVDs, early USB thumb drives, various hard drives running everything from FAT, FAT32, ReiserFS, HPFS, NTFS, ext2 and ext3. And I'll keep on doing that until I drop dead, and I'll leave it up to my family to decide whether they want to keep any of the documents, pictures, music files, videos and so on that I've been collecting.
You don't think my Jumbo 120 backups are sufficient?
This is not because of a complaint, it's because of the government's response, which should have consisted of a bureaucratically-worded version of "...and?...so what, it's free?" instead of the present myopic, pigeon-holing, thinking-strictly-within-the-box, easily-predictable, and all-too-typical bureaucratic mess of unintended consequences whenever big government gets involved.
Strat
Why would the government contradict its own position? Note below that this was the 1996 position of the "The Office of Civil Rights of the United States Department of Education".
Being an old man, I remember exactly this sort of thing being warned about literally (correct use of the word) 20 years ago when the movement began to make web content ADA compliant. (Now let's see... Who was the President in 1996 again?)
According to the United States Justice Department, the ADA also applies to the cyberspace “world.” In an opinion letter dated September 9, 1996, The U.S. Department of Justice stated that:
“Covered entities under the ADA are required to provide effective communication, regardless of whether they generally communicate through print media, audio media, or computerized media such as the Internet. Covered entities that use the Internet for communications regarding their programs, goods, or services must be prepared to offer those communications through accessible means as well.”
and
When members of the public who have a disability attempt to access a Web site, they are therefore entitled to equal access as are any other members of the public. But what exactly is “effective communication”? According to a 1996 settlement letter from The Office of Civil Rights of the United States Department of Education (OCR):
[T]he issue is not whether the [person] with the disability is merely provided access, but the issue is rather the extent to which the communication is actually as effective as that provided to others.
Musk can say " screw this " and move the entire operation out of California and into another State where the cost of doing business is much lower.
The only other state even nearly as liberal as California is New York which wouldn't solve any of the cost and union problems. If he moved to a conservative state (say, Texas or Arizona) he'd get boycotted by angry liberals who would say he's selling out The Cause (whatever they think it is) for money.
Slashdot Mirror
IAhhh, reality is a harsh mistress!
I thought that was the Moon.
I guess Red Dwarf got it right. There are no aliens in the universe.
Last time I checked by 5-1/4 floppy drive was still in my Museum of Worthless Computer Junk, along with my Wizardry save disk from circa 1987.
Playing Devil's Advocate... I have seen some steam games with a warning "Not Optimized for Windows 7". Little, unknown games like, say, Fallout 3. What this REALLY means is that it probably won't run correctly on Windows 7 or later.
Guess What. Moon Rocks are Pure Poison.
But at least we might develop Combustible Lemons.
The Republicans specifically warned that this "treaty" was not a treaty and did not have the force of law. The Democrats raised hell about that too. See Republicans Draw White House Ire for Warning to Iran. As they warned, "The next President could revoke such an executive agreement with the stroke of a pen, and future Congresses could modify the terms of the agreement at any time."
This is just one of several examples of President "I Won" Obama's "a pen and a phone" strategy to avoid dealing with Republicans. The only thing that went wrong is that Hillary Clinton wasn't elected for the next eight years to continue them and instead we got a guy with an eraser.
Whether you think the agreement was for good or for bad, nothing happened here that should be a surprise to anyone. Don't forget that Obama reversed a lot of Bush orders, too. Why did anyone expect Obama orders to go untouched?
There's a reason that the US Constitution makes it hard to do things without a consensus, and especially makes it hard for a President to rule by decree. Don't take shortcuts if you want something to last.
If it gets loose, will it eat the bottles on the shelves? Will it also eat the fleece jackets made from recycled PET bottles?
I read that book a long time ago:
Mutant 59: The Plastic-Eaters
Maybe it would be good for everyone who believes that government is the answer for everything and have more power to remember... Occasionally the Other Side will be in control and use that power for things you don't like.
Solution: don't give the government any more power than you'd want the Other Side to have.
Remember about how about 10 years ago Democrats were gloating about how those old, rickety Republicans were at a tremendous disadvantage because they didn't know how to leverage the internet and social media? It sounds to me like they figured out how to use social media AS THE GREAT DATA SPONGE IT WAS DESIGNED TO BE perfectly fine. The indignation is that the "wrong" people figured it out.
The "shame" is on everyone who freely gives out their personal information for, what? Nothing at all. Here you go, world! I'm so important that I'm sure that EVERYONE wants to know everything about me and exactly what I did today!
Why in the world does everyone want to spew out everything about themselves and then cry that they have no privacy?
Not when you take the cost of living into account. Which is very significant given your claim that there was no real difference in the economies.
TRUE: California has the nation's highest poverty rate, when factoring in cost-of-living
Looking at state poverty rates, the second highest is Florida's 19 percent, followed by New York's and Louisiana's shared 17.9 percent rate. The national average is 15.1 percent using the supplemental measure.
"I think Assemblymember Mayes' comments are accurate," said Chris Hoene, executive director of the left-leaning California Budget Policy Center, which has closely studied poverty in the state.
Hoene said the high poverty rate in the supplemental report is driven by California's stratospheric housing costs. He added that use of the supplemental measure has gained wide acceptance among researchers.
"I think in most quarters, that's not disputed," he said.
Marybeth Mattingly, a researcher at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality added by email: "Basically, yes, this statement is (sadly) accurate."
There is a lovely job market here in California.
So, you can live in beautiful place with beautiful weather or an ugly place with horrible weather. It's not that different economically.
The person working at McDonalds or in the cafeteria at one of those glossy high tech centers might not agree with you. You either have a good job with high pay (compared to the same job elsewhere, like your wife) or you're in a world of hurt.
While it sneers at those "poor" Red states, wonderful, liberal California is one of the worse places in the nation for income inequality, and the large low end is in real poverty.
Walters: Why does California have the nation's highest poverty level?
With all the recent hoopla about California's record-low unemployment rate and the heady prospect of its becoming No. 5 in global economic rankings, it is easy to lose sight of another salient fact: It is the nation's most poverty-stricken state.
And when California residents ridicule Red states for lack of education, remember:
Other California metropolitan areas string out below, but the most startling revelation is that the bottom 10 - the nation's least educated communities - include five from California, Salinas (144), Fresno (145), Modesto (146), Bakersfield (147) and Visalia-Porterville (148).
Finally I'm not part of the problem. I have some shirts in my closet that I still occasionally wear that are literally older than my children, the older of which is a freshman at ASU.
It amazes me that people want to defend the SWATter by essentially calling this a Prank Call while heaping hate on the police.
A prank call is "Mike Hunt". Calling 911 with the intent to provoke an armed police response to what they believe is a hostage situation with a fatality is not a prank call. If nothing happened it's still reckless endangerment because he intended to put the person at risk (although "intent" is not required, just disregard for the outcome), even if he did not desire the person's death. Since "deadly weapons" were involved, it's a felony in a lot (if not most) places.
Let me rephrase for you:
"I disagree with what you said so your point of view is invalid."
$349 for a Science Fiction hand-held computer that can access information anywhere on the planet, or talk to anyone in the US and many foreign countries for basically free, or find directions from wherever you happen to be (and it can be unknown to you) to wherever you want to go. For a device that totally changed society (for the good or the bad). For less than the price of four Phoenix Comicon Full Event passes.
I used to look books up in a card catalog. I used to pay Long Distance. I used to buy maps (AAA Triptik anyone?).
Yeah, that sounds pretty cheap to me.
You can get a damn good $199 Moto G5 Plus from Amazon or Newegg if it isn't. I use a One Plus 3T myself.
They probably had record sales.
Of their own stock.
You have to make housing that costs so damn much that even professionals need roommates to afford it sound good somehow. So drop the term "roommates" and had some cool-sounding made up euphemism and now it's GOOD that you can't afford your own apartment or house.
Seriously, how housing prices be sustained in places where you can only afford to buy a house when you already have one there to sell?
I almost never fill that crap out. If it's required to complete the transaction then the transaction doesn't get completed.
I'm not three-digit, but I remember when my number was considered high.
This is what happens when you start networking computers on a Battlestar. Damn Cylons will get you every time.
In the ideal world, no government at any level would apply any unbalanced subsidy or tax on any business or private entity. There would be no tax breaks for building a plant, no subsidy for putting solar panels on your roof, and no star-struck local officials screwing their taxpayers financing a sports stadium (see Glendale and the Arizona Coyotes situation or the Diamondbacks trying to extort improvements under the guise of maintenance from Maricopa County).
Unfortunately we do not live in an ideal world. Tax code and public spending are used to punish and reward all the time.
And just because you happen to LIKE one particular subsidy doesn't negate the fact that it's still crony capitalism. I read earlier this week that Elon Musk's companies have received subsidies and "green" tax benefits equal to half of his considerable net worth.
With Democrats all but guaranteed to win New York, Chicago, and California by massive margins (and the electoral votes of that state), it is likely to occur any time a Republican is elected. All of Hillary's popular margin is accounted for by her margin in LA County, Cook County (Chicago), and pick three of NYC boroughs. A Republican will always start with the electoral and popular vote deficits from those areas. Unless something would happen to cause a sea change in this regard, it would be a true wonder if a Republican candidate could ever overcome this deficit to the extent needed to score a "landslide" victory. Instead, Republican wins will be by tight margins and possibly a negative margin in the popular vote.
This is one reason that electoral votes are by state, so that a massive win in one area or a small group of areas doesn't drown out the vote of the rest of the country. This is also the basic reason that all states, small and large, have equal voice in the Senate (and why senators where originally selected by the state instead of the people of the state until the 17th amendment).
The real solution here is relatively frequent backups, multiple copies in different filesystem and physical formats (ie. flash, hard drive, optical). Over time you just keep moving your file store to the new mediums. I have files that are over twenty five years old now, some of them coming from DOS and Windows 3.1, others from my old original Slackware 3 installs. Along the way some of those files have been on CD-Rs, DVDs, early USB thumb drives, various hard drives running everything from FAT, FAT32, ReiserFS, HPFS, NTFS, ext2 and ext3. And I'll keep on doing that until I drop dead, and I'll leave it up to my family to decide whether they want to keep any of the documents, pictures, music files, videos and so on that I've been collecting.
You don't think my Jumbo 120 backups are sufficient?
This is not because of a complaint, it's because of the government's response, which should have consisted of a bureaucratically-worded version of "...and?...so what, it's free?" instead of the present myopic, pigeon-holing, thinking-strictly-within-the-box, easily-predictable, and all-too-typical bureaucratic mess of unintended consequences whenever big government gets involved.
Strat
Why would the government contradict its own position? Note below that this was the 1996 position of the "The Office of Civil Rights of the United States Department of Education".
Being an old man, I remember exactly this sort of thing being warned about literally (correct use of the word) 20 years ago when the movement began to make web content ADA compliant. (Now let's see... Who was the President in 1996 again?)
Here's a 1998 article I quickly found "Is Your Site ADA-Compliant... or a Lawsuit-in-Waiting?". It has these couple of sections:
According to the United States Justice Department, the ADA also applies to the cyberspace “world.” In an opinion letter dated September 9, 1996, The U.S. Department of Justice stated that:
“Covered entities under the ADA are required to provide effective communication, regardless of whether they generally communicate through print media, audio media, or computerized media such as the Internet. Covered entities that use the Internet for communications regarding their programs, goods, or services must be prepared to offer those communications through accessible means as well.”
and
When members of the public who have a disability attempt to access a Web site, they are therefore entitled to equal access as are any other members of the public. But what exactly is “effective communication”? According to a 1996 settlement letter from The Office of Civil Rights of the United States Department of Education (OCR):
[T]he issue is not whether the [person] with the disability is merely provided access, but the issue is rather the extent to which the communication is actually as effective as that provided to others.
The only other state even nearly as liberal as California is New York which wouldn't solve any of the cost and union problems. If he moved to a conservative state (say, Texas or Arizona) he'd get boycotted by angry liberals who would say he's selling out The Cause (whatever they think it is) for money.