Obama tried to close Gitmo, but Congress didn't cooperate, which isn't so much a lie as an overoptimistic campaign promise. Clinton said she'd win, just like every other politician in the history of the world. Closing Gitmo was something the President could do with Congressional cooperation, while making Mexico pay for a wall isn't.
It's comment like "redneck Trump voters" that helped get Trump elected.
No, actually, since Trump was much freer with the insults. If "deplorables" had had a significant effect, Trump's denouncing of ex-POWs and other groups would have gotten him canned where he belonged Trump voters didn't give a crap about insults, they just followed their Fuehrer. (Note: Trump is not a good comparison to Hitler, but Trump followers are a good comparison to Hitler followers.)
That looks like a good place to start, sure. It says that 2 revolutions per minute generally produces too low Coriolis forces to be significant, and that a 30-second period would need a 224m radius to produce 1g. That's pretty substantial, but not a mile (1609m). For an orbital period of 15s, which might not produce significant Coriolis forces (the article says that 2 rpm is generally considered safe, but humans have adapted to 23rpm), the radius would be 56m, which seems much more reasonable.
Actually, this is the main reason I bought the Pro version. It didn't stop Microsoft from deciding my laptop needed to reboot on Microsoft's schedule, and wait until I actually wanted to use the thing to finish the update.
You know, I've never had a surprise update from Apple. The iOS updates have nagged, but they've never just gone ahead and updated my phone. This is indeed an area where Microsoft has surpassed Apple.
One of the reasons I paid extra for the Pro version was so I could schedule upgrades for my convenience. (I knew I couldn't postpone them indefinitely.) Therefore, I got up one day, turned my computer on, and found that it had rebooted (fortunately I never leave work unsaved) overnight, and insisted on not only leaving the machine unusable for some minutes but also inflicting an instructional app to tell me what they've done.
They at least included one change I found useful: changing the screen colors at night. Of course, if I'd found that really useful, I would have already gotten a third-party fix for the problem.
Sigh. It isn't a matter of battery life. It's a matter of the phone not crashing. The battery is indeed no longer capable of supporting maximum performance, which I suspect has gotten more power-hungry since I bought my latest iPhone. Apple is not going to provide a user option that causes the iPhone to crash more or less randomly from the user's point of view.
Exactly what phone are you describing? It clearly isn't the iPhone.
The performance limits are not to extend battery life. They're to prevent phone crashes. You may be willing to accept 6-hour battery life. Are you willing to accept random crashes when you're using the phone to get maximum performance?
It is based on battery health. The iOS version was that Apple introduced the limits into a version to prevent random crashes, giving it a capability. If it were the iOS version, it would not be possible to restore performance by installing a new battery, and it we have good reports of it doing so.
In the past, Apple has released iOS versions that ran badly on older iPhones, but that was because the OS was designed for a more powerful phone. They may have learned from that; my four-year-old 5S is running fine on the latest OS.
You know why they're unheard? Nobody bothers reporting them. People who have other phones have observed problems, but reporting on iPhones grabs eyeballs.
You know what you should do? Go into business for yourself, since you've figured out how to get by without a lot of costs real businesses have. You'll be able to undercut them.
And, while you're closer, you're still lowballing it. That Genius Bar the guy's working at isn't free. Apple presumably leases the space and pays for utilities. The Genius needs a supervisor, and there will be administrative costs. If the employee gets actual benefits, or vacation, or anything like that, the cost goes up.
Typically, an employee costs something like double his or her actual pay.
In the Midwest US, its near perfect, most locations go up to around 100 F in summer and go down to near 0 F in winter.
The Midwest US is a fairly large place, with lots of variation in temperature. Where I live, temperatures go from -25 to 100, roughly. If I go north a couple hundred miles, the winter temperatures can get much colder. So, where I live, 0F is an arbitrary number. It's pretty cold, but if I round off a bit and call it -25C I can also understand that as pretty cold. I can still get out and go places when it's -20F, although I'd rather not, so 0F not a measure of human activity or survival.
In the meantime, 0C is the melting point of water, so depending on whether the temperature is positive or negative in Celsius I know whether to expect ice to melt or form. That's convenient.
So, where I live in the Midwest, Fahrenheit is no more convenient than Celcius, regardless of what it is where you live. Most people live in places with a different range of temperatures than you have (the bulk of US residents don't live in the Midwest), and having 0F be about as cold as it gets where Eravnrekaree lives is really, really unimportant to most people.
Other measurements you might want to look at are the multiple definitions of "ton" and "mile". Richard Feynman once was on a ship, and said he could use the wake (I think) to figure out how fast the ship was going. He was about 10% off. After almost everyone had walked away, unimpressed, someone asked him if he'd converted into nautical miles, since after all a knot is one nautical mile per hour. Feynman was disgusted with the measurement system after that.
Except that politics does mean something to me. The actions of politicians directly affect me and everyone I know.
There have been years when I followed the local Major League Baseball team very closely, and years when I completely ignored it (except to check on my brother's schedule, as he's one of the official scorers). It was fun to have them win the World Series, but the only life-changing thing about it was additional hearing damage. That's what following sports teams is about. The local highways don't get more or less maintenance if the local NFL team is in the Superbowl. The performance of the basketball team isn't going to start a war. The hockey team's success will have only a very minor effect on the crime rate.
I am aware of ways in which I lack power. There are several structural changes that could increase the political power of a single voter, and they're not likely to happen any time soon. It would be good to abolish the Electoral College and have some sort of ranked-choice voting for government offices. It might well work better to have each party (not just the major two) submit a slate of candidates for the House of Representatives and send them to Congress according to party votes. (It doesn't look like that would violate the Constitution.) However, I have to spend at least some time in the real world, paying attention to real world problems. And, in the real world, the US voting system will tend towards two major party and an occasional third party getting some support, so I have to deal with that.
The fact is that things would have gone considerably differently this year if the Democrats had taken the House, the Senate, and the White House. Differently in ways that affect me and the people I care about. Either I participate in the two-party system, or I leave all this up to other people.
- Almost 2 years of investigation and zero evidence of any wrong doing or collusion by the president with Russia, but 98% of reporting on Trump is still negative.
It's not zero evidence. Lying about dealings with Russians is evidence. Also, to change this slightly, many years of investigation and no finding of any crime Clinton was guilty of, but you wouldn't know that from the right wing, which still seems not to have realized that Trump won and Clinton is mostly irrelevant.
And, of course, Trump has been violating the Article II emoluments clause right and left, which is not something I typically see in the news.
Not to mention that lots and lots of people have other reasons to be disgusted with Trump besides involvement with Russia.
- Never mind that ISIS in Syria is nearly wiped out,
From the same side that didn't seem to care about Osama bin Laden being killed and al-Qaida operations thoroughly disrupted.
- The economy is going gangbusters,
- Employment is up,
Of course. Trump's accomplished very little, so the economy is still running the way Obama had it. It's far too soon for Trump to claim any economic benefits.
- Abuse of H1B visas is being cracked down on,
This is something I do like. See, I can agree with Trump.
- illegal aliens who were stealing American jobs, benefits and driving down US wages are being deported and driven off in hoards, etc.
Another Obama policy. It wasn't like Obama wasn't cracking down on illegal immigrants. I note that neither party has tried to solve the problem by serious penalties for individuals and companies that illegally employ illegal immigrants, which seems to me to be a very effective action.
What uranium ore scandal? Clinton was one of several government officials who signed off on the sale of some of a Canadian company to Russians. That means some of the profits would go to Russia. I haven't heard anything about Clinton being involved in uranium ore.
You know, people like you have argued that it's not wrong to have business dealings and meetings with Russians. I therefore find it ironic that you seem to be arguing that it was wrong to try to prevent Trump from becoming President. Certainly the FBI should have stayed out of it (in specific, Comey should not have done that fake "more emails" flap in October that may have cost Clinton the election), but you're including "Clinton-machine money" which it seems to me should naturally be partisan towards Clinton.
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Obama tried to close Gitmo, but Congress didn't cooperate, which isn't so much a lie as an overoptimistic campaign promise. Clinton said she'd win, just like every other politician in the history of the world. Closing Gitmo was something the President could do with Congressional cooperation, while making Mexico pay for a wall isn't.
No, actually, since Trump was much freer with the insults. If "deplorables" had had a significant effect, Trump's denouncing of ex-POWs and other groups would have gotten him canned where he belonged Trump voters didn't give a crap about insults, they just followed their Fuehrer. (Note: Trump is not a good comparison to Hitler, but Trump followers are a good comparison to Hitler followers.)
That looks like a good place to start, sure. It says that 2 revolutions per minute generally produces too low Coriolis forces to be significant, and that a 30-second period would need a 224m radius to produce 1g. That's pretty substantial, but not a mile (1609m). For an orbital period of 15s, which might not produce significant Coriolis forces (the article says that 2 rpm is generally considered safe, but humans have adapted to 23rpm), the radius would be 56m, which seems much more reasonable.
Can the tickets be returned for a refund, since they were a complete loss and certainly not fit for purpose?
What I've wondered is how I'm supposed to know if the machine malfunctioned in the casino's favor. It only seems fair.
I suspect it's the truth, based on my own experience.
Actually, this is the main reason I bought the Pro version. It didn't stop Microsoft from deciding my laptop needed to reboot on Microsoft's schedule, and wait until I actually wanted to use the thing to finish the update.
You know, I've never had a surprise update from Apple. The iOS updates have nagged, but they've never just gone ahead and updated my phone. This is indeed an area where Microsoft has surpassed Apple.
One of the reasons I paid extra for the Pro version was so I could schedule upgrades for my convenience. (I knew I couldn't postpone them indefinitely.) Therefore, I got up one day, turned my computer on, and found that it had rebooted (fortunately I never leave work unsaved) overnight, and insisted on not only leaving the machine unusable for some minutes but also inflicting an instructional app to tell me what they've done.
They at least included one change I found useful: changing the screen colors at night. Of course, if I'd found that really useful, I would have already gotten a third-party fix for the problem.
Sigh. It isn't a matter of battery life. It's a matter of the phone not crashing. The battery is indeed no longer capable of supporting maximum performance, which I suspect has gotten more power-hungry since I bought my latest iPhone. Apple is not going to provide a user option that causes the iPhone to crash more or less randomly from the user's point of view.
Exactly what phone are you describing? It clearly isn't the iPhone.
The performance limits are not to extend battery life. They're to prevent phone crashes. You may be willing to accept 6-hour battery life. Are you willing to accept random crashes when you're using the phone to get maximum performance?
It is based on battery health. The iOS version was that Apple introduced the limits into a version to prevent random crashes, giving it a capability. If it were the iOS version, it would not be possible to restore performance by installing a new battery, and it we have good reports of it doing so.
In the past, Apple has released iOS versions that ran badly on older iPhones, but that was because the OS was designed for a more powerful phone. They may have learned from that; my four-year-old 5S is running fine on the latest OS.
If it was forced through OS updates, replacing the battery wouldn't restore the performance. It's connected to battery health.
You know why they're unheard? Nobody bothers reporting them. People who have other phones have observed problems, but reporting on iPhones grabs eyeballs.
You know what you should do? Go into business for yourself, since you've figured out how to get by without a lot of costs real businesses have. You'll be able to undercut them.
And, while you're closer, you're still lowballing it. That Genius Bar the guy's working at isn't free. Apple presumably leases the space and pays for utilities. The Genius needs a supervisor, and there will be administrative costs. If the employee gets actual benefits, or vacation, or anything like that, the cost goes up. Typically, an employee costs something like double his or her actual pay.
The Midwest US is a fairly large place, with lots of variation in temperature. Where I live, temperatures go from -25 to 100, roughly. If I go north a couple hundred miles, the winter temperatures can get much colder. So, where I live, 0F is an arbitrary number. It's pretty cold, but if I round off a bit and call it -25C I can also understand that as pretty cold. I can still get out and go places when it's -20F, although I'd rather not, so 0F not a measure of human activity or survival.
In the meantime, 0C is the melting point of water, so depending on whether the temperature is positive or negative in Celsius I know whether to expect ice to melt or form. That's convenient.
So, where I live in the Midwest, Fahrenheit is no more convenient than Celcius, regardless of what it is where you live. Most people live in places with a different range of temperatures than you have (the bulk of US residents don't live in the Midwest), and having 0F be about as cold as it gets where Eravnrekaree lives is really, really unimportant to most people.
Jacobins didn't guillotine starving people. That's pointless. They used it on nobility, the rich, and former allies.
Other measurements you might want to look at are the multiple definitions of "ton" and "mile". Richard Feynman once was on a ship, and said he could use the wake (I think) to figure out how fast the ship was going. He was about 10% off. After almost everyone had walked away, unimpressed, someone asked him if he'd converted into nautical miles, since after all a knot is one nautical mile per hour. Feynman was disgusted with the measurement system after that.
Except that politics does mean something to me. The actions of politicians directly affect me and everyone I know.
There have been years when I followed the local Major League Baseball team very closely, and years when I completely ignored it (except to check on my brother's schedule, as he's one of the official scorers). It was fun to have them win the World Series, but the only life-changing thing about it was additional hearing damage. That's what following sports teams is about. The local highways don't get more or less maintenance if the local NFL team is in the Superbowl. The performance of the basketball team isn't going to start a war. The hockey team's success will have only a very minor effect on the crime rate.
I am aware of ways in which I lack power. There are several structural changes that could increase the political power of a single voter, and they're not likely to happen any time soon. It would be good to abolish the Electoral College and have some sort of ranked-choice voting for government offices. It might well work better to have each party (not just the major two) submit a slate of candidates for the House of Representatives and send them to Congress according to party votes. (It doesn't look like that would violate the Constitution.) However, I have to spend at least some time in the real world, paying attention to real world problems. And, in the real world, the US voting system will tend towards two major party and an occasional third party getting some support, so I have to deal with that.
The fact is that things would have gone considerably differently this year if the Democrats had taken the House, the Senate, and the White House. Differently in ways that affect me and the people I care about. Either I participate in the two-party system, or I leave all this up to other people.
Quiet...they don't want us to know that.
Well, we've got lots of prominent Republicans who deny the laws of physics, so you have to admit there's some justification.
It's not zero evidence. Lying about dealings with Russians is evidence. Also, to change this slightly, many years of investigation and no finding of any crime Clinton was guilty of, but you wouldn't know that from the right wing, which still seems not to have realized that Trump won and Clinton is mostly irrelevant.
And, of course, Trump has been violating the Article II emoluments clause right and left, which is not something I typically see in the news.
Not to mention that lots and lots of people have other reasons to be disgusted with Trump besides involvement with Russia.
From the same side that didn't seem to care about Osama bin Laden being killed and al-Qaida operations thoroughly disrupted.
Of course. Trump's accomplished very little, so the economy is still running the way Obama had it. It's far too soon for Trump to claim any economic benefits.
This is something I do like. See, I can agree with Trump.
Another Obama policy. It wasn't like Obama wasn't cracking down on illegal immigrants. I note that neither party has tried to solve the problem by serious penalties for individuals and companies that illegally employ illegal immigrants, which seems to me to be a very effective action.
Ah, another right-wing site I've never heard of, which must of course be completely accurate.
What uranium ore scandal? Clinton was one of several government officials who signed off on the sale of some of a Canadian company to Russians. That means some of the profits would go to Russia. I haven't heard anything about Clinton being involved in uranium ore.
You know, people like you have argued that it's not wrong to have business dealings and meetings with Russians. I therefore find it ironic that you seem to be arguing that it was wrong to try to prevent Trump from becoming President. Certainly the FBI should have stayed out of it (in specific, Comey should not have done that fake "more emails" flap in October that may have cost Clinton the election), but you're including "Clinton-machine money" which it seems to me should naturally be partisan towards Clinton.