I'll grant your point. That said, is that a compelling enough interest to justify persecuting people? Since I got to grow up in an environment where such persecution was commonplace, i'm going to answer "no". I'd rather have my daughter be a slut than create an authoritarian veneer of morality. Growing up with that kind of authoritarianism sucks, to be quite frank.
I personally wouldn't have published, but I like keeping my private life private. Other opinions may differ, but it's definitely less classy than silence. Moreover, if I thought the fling/relationship was meaningful, it would cheapen it for me to publicize it. I'd rather take the memory to the grave.
I don't care if she wanted to drink the jizz of 1000 men (stormtroopers?) on the set of Star Wars. It's irrelevant and none of my business even if she publishes the diaries. There is no moral judgement to be made because it's irrelevant. Marriages are at-will constructs, particularly today. If Harrison Ford wasn't getting any at home and he wanted to fuck a 19 year old, his business, again. Neither one is a minor or mentally defective. I, and society in general, have no vital interest in restricting his dick for the benefit of his then-current wife.
But interpreting this as anything but a moneymaking ploy is impossible.
Yeah, it's slut shaming. All motivated by the desire to reduce prospects for THEIR husband getting some on the side by reducing the available pool of women through intense criticism.
I personally don't see others' sexual preferences and number of partners to be my business. You apparently do.
I'm old enough to remember the religious assholes trying to tell all of us how to live and do not have good memories of this. I sense deja vu in your post.
The FCC could pass regulations that will be invalidated upon Trump's inauguration, or they could avoid wasting everyone's time and do this. They took the cost-cutting choice.
The only anti-Obama protest post-election that I ever heard of was at the University of Mississippi where they had 400 young Republicans marching around protesting the election in 2012 peacefully (but stupidly - what are you protesting, the electoral system? - no side has a monopoly on dumbness I guess). No other protests.
The rest of the data is irrelevant. The guy who got beat up in Louisiana probably did get a beatdown because of his Obama sticker, but the guy who did it has a history of being a violent offender back home in Longview, TX. As do his family members. Shall I start linking the Trump-related beating stories from the past few days? The effigy hangings, who cares, that happens every election. Property destruction - happens every day, I could speak volumes on that personally as I got my car vandalized to the tune of $2500 just this last election cycle and I have a film of some woman throwing shit on my property.
So that article is a bunch of horseshit thrown together to defend violent protests that are resulting in deaths and destruction across the country.
Microsoft used to have compilers for other platforms. They stopped supporting them when they tried to unify everyone on Windows back in the 80s and 90s.
Microsoft's revenue is still driven by Office and Windows.
Why would you support other platforms with dev tools? It discourages people from writing for Windows to make it too easy to write to the Macintosh. In context, Microsoft has also made it undesirable to have Windows 10 in at least its consumer iteration due to the spyware and the confused interface. So on the one hand, you're driving the users off your platform, and on the other hand, you're facilitating moving the software they depend on to another platform. This seriously does not make sense from a profit generating perspective.
The only way I can make sense of this is that they don't see owning a platform, its dev tools and the primary application software on that platform to be logical for them because they don't think that desktop computing will last. It'll be supplanted by mobile, which they failed to own the platform thereof. Therefore, they want to shove their dev tools and applications in every space they can.
I don't see this as the likely end game, though. I really don't see desktop computing going away in the near term.
Trump is not, and you're going to be surprised by the things he does because of that. He's not part of the shitty milieu that you're used to. You probably won't like what is happening, but expecting it to be the same as Obama or Bush is ill-informed. But everyone will have plenty of time to learn.
Trump is the most interesting candidate to win since Teddy Roosevelt got catapulted into office after McKinley's death. Instead of bemoaning it, people should be just popping popcorn. My expectation is that once he is out of office, you won't recognize America. Street protests and death threats won't stop that from happening. Also, you don't want him to die, even if you are a Democrat. You'll end up with an old line Republican replacing him with Bush policies - which no Democrat should want, and I don't even want. You'll find out over time that he's really a circa 1985 Democrat from New York with capitalist convictions. Moreover, the changes he performs may well benefit Democrats too once they return to power.
The fever dreams of assassinations, impeachments and faithless electors need to be put away. As do the stupid election rhetoric which didn't work. Unless you like being branded as a conspiracy theorist, in which case...have at it. Republicans had been dismissing and defeating Democrats for many years prior to Obama because of that very factor. You might be too young to remember Carter, Dukakis or Mondale or their supporters. If they had seemed like reasonable people (and their supporters, too), you would have had no Reagan or no Bush Sr., perhaps. It wasn't so much that America was more right wing then - in fact, I suspect it was less so than today. But the Democrats managed to convince America that they were less reliable hands in control of the Presidency, at least.
I don't really think anyone is going to listen, but I might be back in late 2020 to point out the obvious to you.
You're close, but that's still saying that the Democrats have a messaging problem. The problem isn't messaging, it's the message. It speaks to about zero effective problems for real Americans. And without a bully pulpit and the levers of government to prop up that message, we're back to at least 2004 if not 1984 in terms of the 2020 election.
This rioting is not helping matters. To have a chance at winning in 2020, the Democrats have to appear at least somewhat loyal. They don't right now.
I suppose it's a typical leftist mindset that people should be able to break contracts and essentially steal money from the other party by not fulfilling their obligations while pocketing the money. Apparently Trump doesn't agree with that. Good on him.
No social contract. Look through history...if you are an unknown quantity in a place, you are safe in doing nasty things. Do you really think raping and pillaging cities and towns after battle was driven by blood lust - no, it was just that normal forms of enforcement weren't happening, and no one knew you.
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I'll grant your point. That said, is that a compelling enough interest to justify persecuting people? Since I got to grow up in an environment where such persecution was commonplace, i'm going to answer "no". I'd rather have my daughter be a slut than create an authoritarian veneer of morality. Growing up with that kind of authoritarianism sucks, to be quite frank.
I personally wouldn't have published, but I like keeping my private life private. Other opinions may differ, but it's definitely less classy than silence. Moreover, if I thought the fling/relationship was meaningful, it would cheapen it for me to publicize it. I'd rather take the memory to the grave.
I don't care if she wanted to drink the jizz of 1000 men (stormtroopers?) on the set of Star Wars. It's irrelevant and none of my business even if she publishes the diaries. There is no moral judgement to be made because it's irrelevant. Marriages are at-will constructs, particularly today. If Harrison Ford wasn't getting any at home and he wanted to fuck a 19 year old, his business, again. Neither one is a minor or mentally defective. I, and society in general, have no vital interest in restricting his dick for the benefit of his then-current wife.
But interpreting this as anything but a moneymaking ploy is impossible.
Yeah, it's slut shaming. All motivated by the desire to reduce prospects for THEIR husband getting some on the side by reducing the available pool of women through intense criticism.
I personally don't see others' sexual preferences and number of partners to be my business. You apparently do.
I'm old enough to remember the religious assholes trying to tell all of us how to live and do not have good memories of this. I sense deja vu in your post.
I think his unwillingness to comment on it is fairly classy.
The usual suspects are trying to slut-shame her to make them feel better about their unstable marriages.
I suppose everyone is playing their role here.
The FCC could pass regulations that will be invalidated upon Trump's inauguration, or they could avoid wasting everyone's time and do this. They took the cost-cutting choice.
The only anti-Obama protest post-election that I ever heard of was at the University of Mississippi where they had 400 young Republicans marching around protesting the election in 2012 peacefully (but stupidly - what are you protesting, the electoral system? - no side has a monopoly on dumbness I guess). No other protests.
The rest of the data is irrelevant. The guy who got beat up in Louisiana probably did get a beatdown because of his Obama sticker, but the guy who did it has a history of being a violent offender back home in Longview, TX. As do his family members. Shall I start linking the Trump-related beating stories from the past few days? The effigy hangings, who cares, that happens every election. Property destruction - happens every day, I could speak volumes on that personally as I got my car vandalized to the tune of $2500 just this last election cycle and I have a film of some woman throwing shit on my property.
So that article is a bunch of horseshit thrown together to defend violent protests that are resulting in deaths and destruction across the country.
Microsoft used to have compilers for other platforms. They stopped supporting them when they tried to unify everyone on Windows back in the 80s and 90s.
Microsoft's revenue is still driven by Office and Windows.
Why would you support other platforms with dev tools? It discourages people from writing for Windows to make it too easy to write to the Macintosh. In context, Microsoft has also made it undesirable to have Windows 10 in at least its consumer iteration due to the spyware and the confused interface. So on the one hand, you're driving the users off your platform, and on the other hand, you're facilitating moving the software they depend on to another platform. This seriously does not make sense from a profit generating perspective.
The only way I can make sense of this is that they don't see owning a platform, its dev tools and the primary application software on that platform to be logical for them because they don't think that desktop computing will last. It'll be supplanted by mobile, which they failed to own the platform thereof. Therefore, they want to shove their dev tools and applications in every space they can.
I don't see this as the likely end game, though. I really don't see desktop computing going away in the near term.
Same shit, different day. I'm showing my age here.
In which case, they'll be sucking hind tit. But they're not all that far from bankruptcy as things stand now.
PVI chart in the midst of this article is very interesting. Negative means more likely to vote Republican for Congress.
Trump is an egotist and will keep all the big decisions for himself.
The rest is just unrealistic. More fever dreams. Pop a Xanax or something.
Oh that's not an emoji. It's intelligible and doesn't require interpretation.
Trump is not, and you're going to be surprised by the things he does because of that. He's not part of the shitty milieu that you're used to. You probably won't like what is happening, but expecting it to be the same as Obama or Bush is ill-informed. But everyone will have plenty of time to learn.
Trump is the most interesting candidate to win since Teddy Roosevelt got catapulted into office after McKinley's death. Instead of bemoaning it, people should be just popping popcorn. My expectation is that once he is out of office, you won't recognize America. Street protests and death threats won't stop that from happening. Also, you don't want him to die, even if you are a Democrat. You'll end up with an old line Republican replacing him with Bush policies - which no Democrat should want, and I don't even want. You'll find out over time that he's really a circa 1985 Democrat from New York with capitalist convictions. Moreover, the changes he performs may well benefit Democrats too once they return to power.
The fever dreams of assassinations, impeachments and faithless electors need to be put away. As do the stupid election rhetoric which didn't work. Unless you like being branded as a conspiracy theorist, in which case...have at it. Republicans had been dismissing and defeating Democrats for many years prior to Obama because of that very factor. You might be too young to remember Carter, Dukakis or Mondale or their supporters. If they had seemed like reasonable people (and their supporters, too), you would have had no Reagan or no Bush Sr., perhaps. It wasn't so much that America was more right wing then - in fact, I suspect it was less so than today. But the Democrats managed to convince America that they were less reliable hands in control of the Presidency, at least.
I don't really think anyone is going to listen, but I might be back in late 2020 to point out the obvious to you.
Well played.
You're close, but that's still saying that the Democrats have a messaging problem. The problem isn't messaging, it's the message. It speaks to about zero effective problems for real Americans. And without a bully pulpit and the levers of government to prop up that message, we're back to at least 2004 if not 1984 in terms of the 2020 election.
This rioting is not helping matters. To have a chance at winning in 2020, the Democrats have to appear at least somewhat loyal. They don't right now.
I hate those things. They communicate absolutely zero to me. I ignore all posts that include them.
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You're a little over the top, you know. It almost sounds like you believe campaign rhetoric. Not very wise.
I suppose it's a typical leftist mindset that people should be able to break contracts and essentially steal money from the other party by not fulfilling their obligations while pocketing the money. Apparently Trump doesn't agree with that. Good on him.
The NYT thinks you are full of shit. I do too.
What did Rosie do to try to mend fences? She doubled down on criticism. What do you expect - this is Trump, after all.
The guy is a negotiator. He'll throw them a bone, but get big concessions in response to this.
Endless hate is not really a characteristic of Trump. Pragmatism is.
I don't know why everyone is so eager to shove this behavior underground. Then you'll have mystery suicides and wonder why.
In this case, 'zero tolerance' policies and the predictive miss of Trump's win last week have a lot in common.
No social contract. Look through history...if you are an unknown quantity in a place, you are safe in doing nasty things. Do you really think raping and pillaging cities and towns after battle was driven by blood lust - no, it was just that normal forms of enforcement weren't happening, and no one knew you.
This is unsurprising and won't change.
Wouldn't you expect O2 levels to go up in response to all that new plant life photosynthesizing?