Hillary want's open borders and free employment with all of South America
You know, I want that too\. It's a nice ideal to have. There's lots of reasons why doing it right now would be really bad, but setting things up so it would work is a worthwhile goal.
Oh, the outrage is out there, regardless of what actually happened. Both Trump and Bill Clinton allegedly raped women (or, in Trump's case, a girl). Since I haven't seen evidence, I'm assuming that none of the alleged rapes actually happened until I find out more.
Bill Clinton was (and probably still is) a real jerk, but I haven't seen evidence that goes beyond that. Trump talked about sexual assault as if he did it as a matter of course.
Clinton had to defend the rapist. Everyone is entitled to counsel in a criminal trial, including the guilty ones. Clinton got the assignment, and the judge wouldn't let her out of it.
Rape is a really touchy crime, since it's often hard to prove consent or lack of it. At the time, failing to try to slut-shame the victim would be dereliction of duty, since the defense attorney was supposed to do anything to cast doubt on the charge. Things have improved somewhat since then, not nearly enough.
The result was that the rapist pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, which is worse punishment than most rapists get, unfortunately.
Lots of men talk about women in disparaging terms and sexually objectify them, unfortunately. Some will even talk about rape in a semi-approving way, but relatively few talk about criminal sexual behavior in quite the way Trump did. There's a difference between "I'd like to rape that bitch" and (paraphrased) "I commit sexual assault as a matter of course", and it's not in Trump's favor.
Trump has a hard core of nihilistic followers, who are pretty loud and delusional, and they aren't going away. They'd applaud if Trump grabbed Queen Elizabeth's pussy. He doesn't have many supporters any more outside that core, and that core is (fortunately) woefully insufficient to win the election.
Bernie was not done away with. He won a large number of delegates, and wasn't all that far from winning the nomination. Had he been more popular, he would have gotten the nomination. The campaign was slanted against him, but it wasn't rigged.
The Clintons have been attacked for decades, normally for things they didn't do or which aren't all that important. The Republicans can't dig up additional dirt because they've thrown what they have and what they could spray-paint in a dirt color. I think this is backfiring on them.
It would be good if we can address some of the problems of the Trump supporters, but it looks to me like Clinton would do a lot better at that than Trump. People generally don't become nihilist for no reason at all, and we need to understand that.
I'm aware of gaffes, but I don't remember a major party ever ditching a Presidential candidate after the convention. The closest was McGovern dumping his running mate in 1972 (after backing him a thousand percent). Talking about gaffes...but McGovern continued his candidacy and was stomped into the mud in a landslide.
Clinton directed that personal emails be destroyed, which was perfectly legitimate. She is responsible for what they do on her orders, and not generally otherwise. She doesn't seem to be all that good at picking IT subordinates. Since she's not going to be picking them as President, that doesn't bother me all that much.
Microsoft had nothing to do with the beginning of PC BIOS. That was introduced by IBM with the original IBM PC, which was around for about five years before the first really crappy version of MS Windows appeared. Wintel was a considerably later development.
I don't know much about the design decisions for the original IBM PC, except that it was a quick design with as many off-the-shelf components as possible, so it may well be that Intel was behind the original BIOS.
No SWAT team will show up to cart anyone's vehicles off. You may not be able to buy an exact replacement for your Jeep, but I've found that cars I like sometimes get discontinued when I'm not interested in buying another one for five years.
Alternately, you can get hit with a CO2 tax (other emissions are pretty low for modern vehicles) that makes up for damage you're doing. Right now, you're insisting on externalizing your costs and getting everyone else to pay for your benefits.
Statistics are for reasoned discussions. They don't have the same impact in casual conversation. Too many people are aware that figures don't lie, but liars figure.
Nobody (to a reasonable approximation) cares how many terrorist attacks there are; they're just scared of them. The frequency of bacterial outbreaks at X restaurant is not only trumpeted in the media, it's significant numbers of what should be a very rare event. Droughts weren't that rare, and that they are more common now isn't something that hits people like Samsung phones spontaneously combusting.
Yes, but it seems obvious to me that AC and wife have to be doing something unusual to their phones. Not knowing what it is, I can't speculate further, and it's likely that Apple can't prove abuse.
It was overblown, in that people seemed to assume it was a major problem for all iPhones. I had to lick my finger and deliberately short the antennas to notice any loss of signal. One of the original reports was from someone who reported it was a serious problem in one of the three phones they'd tested. It also depended on how the user held the phone, which is, unfortunately, not unusual. It appears to me to be a bonehead design decision (not that I'm an expert), and it affected some phones seriously when held in the way some users held them, but that's as far as it went.
That seems odd. Anyone who could PEEK and POKE to modify the BIOS and erase copy protection was going to be able to install some version of BASIC or other language to accomplish it.
Not only were there plenty of BASIC examples around, but most programs were in BASIC. This means that, for any random program on an early home computer, you could probably list it, figure out how it did what it did, and change it. My wife was drawn into programming by modifying Santa Paravia on the TRS-80.
My son took an Introduction to Programming for Engineers class in his first semester, and that was it. He immediately switched to CS and never looked back.
Science fiction writers don't understand we are mortal, individual free agents who can make our own individual choices and die by them.
You have just described approximately every Heinlein main character (Lazarus Long stretched the "mortal" thing), as well as a lot of other characters (Heinlein rather specialized in such characters). Holograms campaigning for equal rights: are they people or are they not? They seem to be making their own choices.
For example. you won't often see DeM used in a spy or crime novel.
In, say, Golden Era mysteries, there was always a person of great perception who'd come in and straighten everything out. Some examples would be Lord Peter WImsey, Miss Jane Marple, or Sir Henry Merrivale.
Lots of science fiction and fantasy is about contemporary issues, translated into another setting where we can take a look at them from a different angle.
It would be difficult to make sure with any given story, but I'm fairly sure I've seen science fiction where all the technology is either current or impossible. I'm defining "impossible" here as against the currently understood laws of physics.
A book with an award in a field you care about is likely to be better than a book in that field without an award. Authors with several awards tend to be better than authors with few or no awards. I sometimes read a book just because it's won an award, in the hope of finding more books I like.
"SJW" is clear and meaningful? I've seen it used for all sorts of things, including people who are genuinely concerned about clear injustices and people who make up stupid rules about not offending people. At this point it seems to mean "person I don't like and can't be bothered to complain about intelligibly".
It's hard to write really good fiction in any genre. If there's more science fiction out there than you can read, you can try to read more of what you really like.
I exercise free speech. This means that I can put whatever constraints I want on my writing. This also means that other people can't put significant constraints on me.
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You know, I want that too\. It's a nice ideal to have. There's lots of reasons why doing it right now would be really bad, but setting things up so it would work is a worthwhile goal.
Oh, the outrage is out there, regardless of what actually happened. Both Trump and Bill Clinton allegedly raped women (or, in Trump's case, a girl). Since I haven't seen evidence, I'm assuming that none of the alleged rapes actually happened until I find out more.
Bill Clinton was (and probably still is) a real jerk, but I haven't seen evidence that goes beyond that. Trump talked about sexual assault as if he did it as a matter of course.
Clinton had to defend the rapist. Everyone is entitled to counsel in a criminal trial, including the guilty ones. Clinton got the assignment, and the judge wouldn't let her out of it.
Rape is a really touchy crime, since it's often hard to prove consent or lack of it. At the time, failing to try to slut-shame the victim would be dereliction of duty, since the defense attorney was supposed to do anything to cast doubt on the charge. Things have improved somewhat since then, not nearly enough.
The result was that the rapist pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, which is worse punishment than most rapists get, unfortunately.
Lots of men talk about women in disparaging terms and sexually objectify them, unfortunately. Some will even talk about rape in a semi-approving way, but relatively few talk about criminal sexual behavior in quite the way Trump did. There's a difference between "I'd like to rape that bitch" and (paraphrased) "I commit sexual assault as a matter of course", and it's not in Trump's favor.
Trump has a hard core of nihilistic followers, who are pretty loud and delusional, and they aren't going away. They'd applaud if Trump grabbed Queen Elizabeth's pussy. He doesn't have many supporters any more outside that core, and that core is (fortunately) woefully insufficient to win the election.
Bernie was not done away with. He won a large number of delegates, and wasn't all that far from winning the nomination. Had he been more popular, he would have gotten the nomination. The campaign was slanted against him, but it wasn't rigged.
The Clintons have been attacked for decades, normally for things they didn't do or which aren't all that important. The Republicans can't dig up additional dirt because they've thrown what they have and what they could spray-paint in a dirt color. I think this is backfiring on them.
It would be good if we can address some of the problems of the Trump supporters, but it looks to me like Clinton would do a lot better at that than Trump. People generally don't become nihilist for no reason at all, and we need to understand that.
I'm aware of gaffes, but I don't remember a major party ever ditching a Presidential candidate after the convention. The closest was McGovern dumping his running mate in 1972 (after backing him a thousand percent). Talking about gaffes...but McGovern continued his candidacy and was stomped into the mud in a landslide.
Clinton directed that personal emails be destroyed, which was perfectly legitimate. She is responsible for what they do on her orders, and not generally otherwise. She doesn't seem to be all that good at picking IT subordinates. Since she's not going to be picking them as President, that doesn't bother me all that much.
Microsoft had nothing to do with the beginning of PC BIOS. That was introduced by IBM with the original IBM PC, which was around for about five years before the first really crappy version of MS Windows appeared. Wintel was a considerably later development.
I don't know much about the design decisions for the original IBM PC, except that it was a quick design with as many off-the-shelf components as possible, so it may well be that Intel was behind the original BIOS.
No SWAT team will show up to cart anyone's vehicles off. You may not be able to buy an exact replacement for your Jeep, but I've found that cars I like sometimes get discontinued when I'm not interested in buying another one for five years.
Alternately, you can get hit with a CO2 tax (other emissions are pretty low for modern vehicles) that makes up for damage you're doing. Right now, you're insisting on externalizing your costs and getting everyone else to pay for your benefits.
Statistics are for reasoned discussions. They don't have the same impact in casual conversation. Too many people are aware that figures don't lie, but liars figure.
Nobody (to a reasonable approximation) cares how many terrorist attacks there are; they're just scared of them. The frequency of bacterial outbreaks at X restaurant is not only trumpeted in the media, it's significant numbers of what should be a very rare event. Droughts weren't that rare, and that they are more common now isn't something that hits people like Samsung phones spontaneously combusting.
Yes, but it seems obvious to me that AC and wife have to be doing something unusual to their phones. Not knowing what it is, I can't speculate further, and it's likely that Apple can't prove abuse.
It was overblown, in that people seemed to assume it was a major problem for all iPhones. I had to lick my finger and deliberately short the antennas to notice any loss of signal. One of the original reports was from someone who reported it was a serious problem in one of the three phones they'd tested. It also depended on how the user held the phone, which is, unfortunately, not unusual. It appears to me to be a bonehead design decision (not that I'm an expert), and it affected some phones seriously when held in the way some users held them, but that's as far as it went.
That seems odd. Anyone who could PEEK and POKE to modify the BIOS and erase copy protection was going to be able to install some version of BASIC or other language to accomplish it.
I never did understand why HyperCard and HyperTalk went away. They seemed to be quite successful.
I'm going to add another thing.
Not only were there plenty of BASIC examples around, but most programs were in BASIC. This means that, for any random program on an early home computer, you could probably list it, figure out how it did what it did, and change it. My wife was drawn into programming by modifying Santa Paravia on the TRS-80.
My son took an Introduction to Programming for Engineers class in his first semester, and that was it. He immediately switched to CS and never looked back.
Unix is not just a kernel, and just because an OS uses a Linux kernel doesn't make it Unixy.
You have just described approximately every Heinlein main character (Lazarus Long stretched the "mortal" thing), as well as a lot of other characters (Heinlein rather specialized in such characters). Holograms campaigning for equal rights: are they people or are they not? They seem to be making their own choices.
In, say, Golden Era mysteries, there was always a person of great perception who'd come in and straighten everything out. Some examples would be Lord Peter WImsey, Miss Jane Marple, or Sir Henry Merrivale.
Lots of science fiction and fantasy is about contemporary issues, translated into another setting where we can take a look at them from a different angle.
It would be difficult to make sure with any given story, but I'm fairly sure I've seen science fiction where all the technology is either current or impossible. I'm defining "impossible" here as against the currently understood laws of physics.
A book with an award in a field you care about is likely to be better than a book in that field without an award. Authors with several awards tend to be better than authors with few or no awards. I sometimes read a book just because it's won an award, in the hope of finding more books I like.
"SJW" is clear and meaningful? I've seen it used for all sorts of things, including people who are genuinely concerned about clear injustices and people who make up stupid rules about not offending people. At this point it seems to mean "person I don't like and can't be bothered to complain about intelligibly".
It's hard to write really good fiction in any genre. If there's more science fiction out there than you can read, you can try to read more of what you really like.
I exercise free speech. This means that I can put whatever constraints I want on my writing. This also means that other people can't put significant constraints on me.