Closer, but you need to read a little more. Our frontiermen and minutemen fought against soldiers, as did the French soldiers and navy that helped us. We also killed non-military colonists who were pro-crown, or just burned 'em out or tarred and feathered them (which was sometimes fatal). The Brits and Tories generally returned the favour, though I gather they were less imaginative about it.
No, this is REALLY the best reason not to vote for him. Because choosing executives to run his departments is one of his big epic fails. A decent choice in leadership would cause SOMEONE to step in and stop "We the People" from being a colossal insult to Us the People.
Obama doesn't know how to run the Executive branch. He's incompetent. Fire him.
Or maybe he's not incompetent. Maybe this is the response he wants, personally. Then he talks one way and acts another, in which case he's a snake. Fire him.
This is silly. We need one more candidate, and that candidate has to emerge from a small group of people who have a structure around them which can make it possible for them compete.
Neither I nor you (unless you're one of a very small number of people in the US) are nearly as likely to win as Mickey.
Colbert would be a better choice than Mickey. But we really need someone who can actually win.
Who do you like in the parties of n > 2? I'm looking for a better option than Mickey Mouse, mostly because that nasty rodent's been buying politicians to keep himself under copyright for years.
You're off topic. Your response is like saying "This stone hurts my foot because it's blue." His "MAFIAA" connections, if they existed, would be only relevant if he'd DO SOMETHING to help them. He does nothing. He just signs whatever congress gives him. He talks a good games, but in action, he's totally passive.
You are correct, certainly, that Congress is in "the MAFIAA's" pocket. The problem is that if Congress were in the spaghetti-at-every-meal lobby's pocket or the pickle-prohibition lobby's pocket, he'd sign whatever they passed, and his staffers would make excuses.
Given past positions, it will be interesting to see how Slashdotters respond to the question in the submission.
How about "stop making excuses and lead you do-nothing poser?" He could trivially bring in tech leaders and ask them. He could guide some legislation. He could take a stronger hand in the FCC. He could denounce this for what it is, as a massive example of corruption in politics. He could take the advice of any number of well-regarded pundits on the topic and do something, and instead his staff says, "Golly, what should we do? You tell us! Send us 100,000 emails, and we'll read EACH ONE!"
Instead of bread and circuses, we just get circuses.
There's nothing wrong with what you're proposing, but you're saying it because you think we need to keep things in line to keep government out.
First, you're far too late, and second, acting out of fear will cause us not to use the headroom we have. It will make us repressive in an aim to avoid a hand of government.
This only makes sense because there's a vacuum of sense. The laws are corrupt and insane, the legal system predatory and rigged.
If we had decent laws, we could follow them. We could use all the space allowed us by law. Right now we have little space already, and nowhere and nothing is truly safe.
We need change in government, not a self-censorship regime.
No, you're misunderstanding the statement. It's saying, we'll sign anything with the DNS portion removed BECAUSE NOW WE SEE CONGRESS IS ALREADY REMOVING IT. This statement would have been even blander had it been issued just a few days ago. Obama will sign anything he's handed. He does little, changes nothing. His people will try to put a good spin on whatever trash happens under this continuation of the Bush presidency. This document is another example of that.
I'm not sure whether at heart he's a Republican who knows he can only get elected as a Democrat, or whether he read the constitution and decided to only what is expected of a president in that document, as opposed to a modern presidency. Either way, I really feel for his staffers and especially the people fighting to get him re-elected. They know he's crap. They can see, very clearly, that the man is the worst failure as a president we've had in modern times. But we've got to re-elect him, because a Republican might be even worse. Besides, the situation makes them look like fools. So they defend his actions with vigour, when his actions (or really, his inaction) has given us 4 more years of Bush policies domestically (with, bizarrely, LESS restraint from above) and just about everything the Republicans in congress want.
Have you read the rest of the responses to the petitions on this site? One after another, they say (essentially) "Thanks for sending us your petition. We're ignoring it."
Every single response. Without exception. Not one response hints at any willingness to change or reconsider based on the petition. Zero.
They really should say, "Thanks for your petition. You're asking us to do something. We don't do that. We let congress do whatever it does, we let the agencies do whatever they do, we back down whenever there's pressure, we make promises, break then, then shift our language to pretend we delivered rather than admit we failed. We are a sorry excuse for a presidency."
The one thing they seem to have effective at (at least according to Nader, who sometimes is on the money and sometimes seems completely off) is strong-arm the whole party into not challenging him in a primary. They do machine politics well. They just don't seem to know how to govern.
If you click through on the invisible keyboard link, there's a hilarious video in their "Video Gallery" where a guy sticks this on his steering wheel so he can text while driving.
No, the burning question was what kind of chuckle-head would spend all that money and stick his friends on fixed height desks all (it looks from the pictures) at writing height, not typing height.
He's going to give all his friends who are not very tall shoulder and wrist problems.
Look at the pictures. They're all (except for one very tall guy) very badly positioned for work.
He's going to need a to dole out ibuprofen by the pound to his guests.
I did a real business app in it. It was not my choice, but once the choice was made, Flex turned out to be not terrible.
Not a bad language. Not too bad a development environment. But it needed some growing up, needed some changes to the event model, needed a little more coherency. But it worked, and it was pleasant to write in.
I used to only use my Windows box to play games. Now the humble bundles have removed that need. I don't play any games on windows anymore.
And yet, I still have to run a windows VM. I own a iPod Nano 6g, can't get RockBox on it, and am stuck using friggin' iTunes. What cripple-ware we put up with -- would it have killed them to let me drop files onto it as a storage device? (I guess it would have, they SO want me to be stuck using iTunes, thinking I'll buy their music. Not a chance, guys -- already got more than I need.) If only someone else would make a small player with a good, solid clip!
Following the logic of the reply on marijuana, alcohol should CERTAINLY be illegal if marijuana is.
I'm not saying alcohol should be illegal, I'm saying that every single argument in the president's response is in some way applicable to alcohol and in most cases, alcohol is far, far worse.
This is the response of a coward who is only interested in preserving the status quo. A coward I voted for.
He could at least have had his people answer honestly. Instead we get this drivel.
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Then take a look voting for Rocky Anderson.
Closer, but you need to read a little more. Our frontiermen and minutemen fought against soldiers, as did the French soldiers and navy that helped us. We also killed non-military colonists who were pro-crown, or just burned 'em out or tarred and feathered them (which was sometimes fatal). The Brits and Tories generally returned the favour, though I gather they were less imaginative about it.
Wars are complex.
No, this is REALLY the best reason not to vote for him. Because choosing executives to run his departments is one of his big epic fails. A decent choice in leadership would cause SOMEONE to step in and stop "We the People" from being a colossal insult to Us the People.
Obama doesn't know how to run the Executive branch. He's incompetent. Fire him.
Or maybe he's not incompetent. Maybe this is the response he wants, personally. Then he talks one way and acts another, in which case he's a snake. Fire him.
Only because he was able to come out against the bit that had been removed the day before.
This is silly. We need one more candidate, and that candidate has to emerge from a small group of people who have a structure around them which can make it possible for them compete.
Neither I nor you (unless you're one of a very small number of people in the US) are nearly as likely to win as Mickey.
Colbert would be a better choice than Mickey. But we really need someone who can actually win.
Who do you like in the parties of n > 2? I'm looking for a better option than Mickey Mouse, mostly because that nasty rodent's been buying politicians to keep himself under copyright for years.
Exactly! This is why the tea party does so well! Better clowns!
You're off topic. Your response is like saying "This stone hurts my foot because it's blue." His "MAFIAA" connections, if they existed, would be only relevant if he'd DO SOMETHING to help them. He does nothing. He just signs whatever congress gives him. He talks a good games, but in action, he's totally passive.
You are correct, certainly, that Congress is in "the MAFIAA's" pocket. The problem is that if Congress were in the spaghetti-at-every-meal lobby's pocket or the pickle-prohibition lobby's pocket, he'd sign whatever they passed, and his staffers would make excuses.
Given past positions, it will be interesting to see how Slashdotters respond to the question in the submission.
How about "stop making excuses and lead you do-nothing poser?" He could trivially bring in tech leaders and ask them. He could guide some legislation. He could take a stronger hand in the FCC. He could denounce this for what it is, as a massive example of corruption in politics. He could take the advice of any number of well-regarded pundits on the topic and do something, and instead his staff says, "Golly, what should we do? You tell us! Send us 100,000 emails, and we'll read EACH ONE!"
Instead of bread and circuses, we just get circuses.
There's nothing wrong with what you're proposing, but you're saying it because you think we need to keep things in line to keep government out.
First, you're far too late, and second, acting out of fear will cause us not to use the headroom we have. It will make us repressive in an aim to avoid a hand of government.
This only makes sense because there's a vacuum of sense. The laws are corrupt and insane, the legal system predatory and rigged.
If we had decent laws, we could follow them. We could use all the space allowed us by law. Right now we have little space already, and nowhere and nothing is truly safe.
We need change in government, not a self-censorship regime.
On what grounds? I'm open to idea.
However, I don't think utter incompetence is available.
No, you're misunderstanding the statement. It's saying, we'll sign anything with the DNS portion removed BECAUSE NOW WE SEE CONGRESS IS ALREADY REMOVING IT. This statement would have been even blander had it been issued just a few days ago. Obama will sign anything he's handed. He does little, changes nothing. His people will try to put a good spin on whatever trash happens under this continuation of the Bush presidency. This document is another example of that.
I'm not sure whether at heart he's a Republican who knows he can only get elected as a Democrat, or whether he read the constitution and decided to only what is expected of a president in that document, as opposed to a modern presidency. Either way, I really feel for his staffers and especially the people fighting to get him re-elected. They know he's crap. They can see, very clearly, that the man is the worst failure as a president we've had in modern times. But we've got to re-elect him, because a Republican might be even worse. Besides, the situation makes them look like fools. So they defend his actions with vigour, when his actions (or really, his inaction) has given us 4 more years of Bush policies domestically (with, bizarrely, LESS restraint from above) and just about everything the Republicans in congress want.
Have you read the rest of the responses to the petitions on this site? One after another, they say (essentially) "Thanks for sending us your petition. We're ignoring it."
Every single response. Without exception. Not one response hints at any willingness to change or reconsider based on the petition. Zero.
They really should say, "Thanks for your petition. You're asking us to do something. We don't do that. We let congress do whatever it does, we let the agencies do whatever they do, we back down whenever there's pressure, we make promises, break then, then shift our language to pretend we delivered rather than admit we failed. We are a sorry excuse for a presidency."
The one thing they seem to have effective at (at least according to Nader, who sometimes is on the money and sometimes seems completely off) is strong-arm the whole party into not challenging him in a primary. They do machine politics well. They just don't seem to know how to govern.
If you click through on the invisible keyboard link, there's a hilarious video in their "Video Gallery" where a guy sticks this on his steering wheel so he can text while driving.
What's really funny is that they're serious.
Hush. Don't get them back on track. You're spoiling the fun.
Here, have some of my popcorn.
In fact, after reading a bunch of these posts about how one language or another stinks, maybe Z80 assembler for Android is exactly what's needed?
Or forth.
You have a warm feeling for Z80 assembler because it was EXCELLENT, dude.
I was horrified when I was forced to use Intel's stuff.
Or we just stopped reproducing in numbers sufficient to increase the population.
No, the burning question was what kind of chuckle-head would spend all that money and stick his friends on fixed height desks all (it looks from the pictures) at writing height, not typing height.
He's going to give all his friends who are not very tall shoulder and wrist problems.
Look at the pictures. They're all (except for one very tall guy) very badly positioned for work.
He's going to need a to dole out ibuprofen by the pound to his guests.
This is not about making displays with quantum dots -- it's about color correcting LEDs, but still interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjznErmcLnU
Not sure how you go from what I see in the video to display tech.
Agreed. Flex really isn't bad.
I did a real business app in it. It was not my choice, but once the choice was made, Flex turned out to be not terrible.
Not a bad language. Not too bad a development environment. But it needed some growing up, needed some changes to the event model, needed a little more coherency. But it worked, and it was pleasant to write in.
I used to only use my Windows box to play games. Now the humble bundles have removed that need. I don't play any games on windows anymore.
And yet, I still have to run a windows VM. I own a iPod Nano 6g, can't get RockBox on it, and am stuck using friggin' iTunes. What cripple-ware we put up with -- would it have killed them to let me drop files onto it as a storage device? (I guess it would have, they SO want me to be stuck using iTunes, thinking I'll buy their music. Not a chance, guys -- already got more than I need.) If only someone else would make a small player with a good, solid clip!
Then I could completely ditch Windows.
I understand why this happens, but I think it's a bad idea. We're talking about a 4% increase here.
It's very likely that 4% can be found somewhere. Finding it would make the distribution more universally embraceable for one more rev.
Canonical should find that 4%, one more time, even if it means making some pictures and a few programs demand an Internet connection to get installed.
We'll put on connected clothing that's just a bit behind the technology curve.
For the first few years, it'll cover only the parts of our bodies which have the most money.
We'll slowly get more material to cover the rest of our body, but only in exchange for tax breaks.
Instead of changing our entire outfit, we'll replace the clothes in sections, and then only when that piece has a catastrophic wardrobe malfunction.
And we'll keep the underwear on for more than 80 years.
Click on his link, it's a very good one.
Following the logic of the reply on marijuana, alcohol should CERTAINLY be illegal if marijuana is.
I'm not saying alcohol should be illegal, I'm saying that every single argument in the president's response is in some way applicable to alcohol and in most cases, alcohol is far, far worse.
This is the response of a coward who is only interested in preserving the status quo. A coward I voted for.
He could at least have had his people answer honestly. Instead we get this drivel.
Take a look that this petition, it's on the money: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/actually-take-these-petitions-seriously-instead-just-using-them-excuse-pretend-you-are-listening/grQ9mNkN