Kinda ironic given how much stick he gave crooked Hillary for ignoring security on email.
There are two issues with this:
1. It works the other way, too. The same people getting the vapors over Trump tweeting from an insecure phone will spend hours explaining how Hillary did nothing wrong with her email server.
2. The two aren't even comparable. She had classified emails on her unsecured server, in addition to Anthony Weiner's laptop. That's a security issue in and of itself. In Trump's case, twitter isn't the issue. Rather, the issue is that he has a phone on him that is a huge target for hacking. As long as they change the phone out regularly (which shouldn't be difficult since it's his twitter phone) there's a smaller chance of that happening. An email server sitting there for a couple of years is an easier, albeit different target.
Do you understand that you're writing parody there? Fixing the Middle East mess? Ask ISIS how it's going over there since Obama left office. He apparently has ended a 70 year war in Korea by mocking the fat, ugly imbecilic dictator on the other side over the internet. The economy is doing ell and employment is about the highest it's ever been. He's another Bill Clinton - horrible person, fine President.
Not just that. Government spending is inexplicably part of the GDP, so when the economy tanked so many years ago we had a "stimulus" package. A stimulus which magically offset the actual drop in the GDP, making our economy look somewhat steady.
He cared enough to virtue signal. I bet he also doesn't watch television and is a vegetarian. On second thought, probably not since he didn't mention either of those things.
Good. Another law regulating harmless activities between consenting adults bites the dust...
Not only a "law", but an obviously illegal one at that. The Constitution doesn't provide *any* possible authorization for Congress to be involved in such.
If Obamacare would have ended a 60 year war by shitposting on Twitter he would have been given another Nobel peace prize and weâ(TM)d never hear the end of how much of a genius he was.
Seems reasonable to me. In American cities we've had to get used to being gunned down by random drive-by's, mass shooters, various random acts of violence. The levels of these killings are much greater than the occasional terrorist attack in the UK.
And, yet, the violence level in gun-free London is higher now than New York City. They're just using knives.
Weird. As if those of us who say guns aren't the problem are correct or something.
They came to my door a couple of times trying to sell me a "fiber" connection. I told them that fiber isn't being run down my road at this time, so they couldn't offer such and certainly couldn't offer something to compete with my 300Mbit Comcast connection. When I looked they're selling DSL but claiming it's "fiber" since they're running fiber to the vault. Geeze. By that definition dialup is fiber. They also claimed that Comcast isn't offering gigabit speeds around Nashville.
You'd think they would know their competition at least that well.
What's weird to me is that they send salespeople to my door. I live pretty much in the country, albeit at the edge of town. My subdivision has acre lots, and the houses on this road are really sparse. They actually drive - two people in a car - from house to house. That means coming a hundred feet down my driveway to park and try to make a sale. After sending ten pounds of paper, by the way.
I was able to make them lose one sale, which I'm happy about. Someone mentioned on Nextdoor that they were dumping Comcast so they could try AT&T's new fiber service. I knew they didn't have fiber, so I gave them the exact question to ask the AT&T people (basically, "do I have fiber coming all the way to my house?") They reported a couple of days later that they were canceling the AT&T service since it wasn't really fiber.
I was working at Indiana University at the time. In the fall of 1993 I found the world wide web. I got xmosaic working on my unix desktop and also installed NCSA httpd. I downloaded the HTML specification and got to work implementing web pages. At the time, I had pages that took 30 seconds to generate.
Our department (basically IT for the university) was smack dab in the middle of moving our information services from the VAX/VMS cluster to the newfangled gopher service.
Along with a few other folks I did a "stop the presses" and convinced them to abandon that project and go straight to the WWW. It took a lot of convincing since they were so invested in getting gopher up and running. Plus, the text-only information was a pretty easy direct-map to gopher.
The browsers were really primitive at the time. No stylesheets, but we had inline images and could set background colors. Not only that, the development was mainly done on the X11 platform. The Windows and Mac browsers were always lagging in features.
Fill-out forms were a new thing, and the sub ordering application was the standard demonstration for that. Before fill-out forms, there was the "isindex" tag which would show a search box, the contents of which would be added as the "query" part of the url when you hit enter.
There were no cookies and thus no real way to keep state. When I quit the university, we were working on a way to store session information in files on the back end. The idea was basically what PHP was doing back around 1999 - give the user an MD5 hash or something that was used as the query portion of the url. Every url had to go through CGI, and the script would look up the file containing the session information and read it in, and possibly write it out. We wanted to move some of the administrative actions - such as students setting up accounts - to the web. Since fill-out forms weren't really available on the Mac and Windows platforms, we were looking at using "isindex" to get all information to the backend.
It's amazing how far we've come in 25 years. I started doing heavy web development in 1999 and even then it was amazing how far it had advanced.
When I upgraded to 300Mbit service here, it was only available if I also got cable TV along with it. It gets better. They wouldn't give it to me until I plugged in the set top box and went through its entire setup. Then, and only then, did I get 300Mbit service. I tried. I mean, the set top box sat in its box for a few days and I finally called and asked why my service wasn't upgraded. They made it clear that I'd have to plug that thing in.
The good part is that at least their set top box now includes Netflix and Youtube. If they'd get Prime Video I'd be 100% happy with it. We literally don't watch broadcast TV. I haven't seen a commercial in my house in probably 10 years.
Anyway, yeah, I don't like it. But I get 300Mbit service for $90/month, which I'm okay with. I used to be an internet-only customer for many years, but they put a ceiling on that at (I think) 100Mbit.
There's no competition where I'm at. AT&T is offering DSL out here, and calling it "fiber".
As for the "no tax increases, never!"-attitude, that really doesn't work at all for tax revenue drops or increased costs, particularly unexpected ones (like natural disasters). The only options that leaves you with are cutting down on essential services, taking on debt or moving around money in the budget like how they move away money that's supposed to go to education into other essential services when lottery money starts coming in.
You left out the obvious option: cutting non-essential services. This is what every business and household does when revenue drops. Maybe we don't eat out as often or see movies in the theater. Maybe 500 cable channels aren't so important. We don't quit eating, but we do cut stuff that we don't need.
Education has a lot of bloat in it, but mainly at the administrative level. What we see time and again is that giving more money to "education" doesn't end up as raises for teachers. It ends up with non-essential stuff. Plenty has been written about this:
"Since 1970, inflation-adjusted spending per pupil has doubled.... Teachers should indeed be paid better—and it’s worth asking why they haven’t gained more from the big increases in education spending over the past few decades."
Reason had a good article a few years ago showing what happened when a certain state increased education funding - it all went to lavish new offices for administrators. Not a penny went to teachers.
Just curious - in your worldview how do you reconcile the âoeTrump is a Russian stoogeâ fantasy narrative with the âoeRussia is fighting us in proxy warsâ reality?
Of course it is. You need to hook an overpriced sound system to an overpriced Airplay receiver.
Yep. And 12 years ago my very nontechnical wife had no problem playing music from her computer to the Bose in the kitchen. Ultimately, I got more asian babe wife out of the deal. You might not understand that.
Everybody expects something back from society. Many people are vindictive when seeing someone get something back from society, most notably, currently, the right wing. The social score thing could be a product of either wing, regardless of the exact wording used by one person.
...or, if you're smart, you can go into plumbing when you graduate high school and get paid $40,000/year while other schmucks are paying for college. You'll only come out a couple hundred thousand ahead
Or if you're even smarter, you'll pick a major that nets you an $100k job straight out of college and pay off your student loans in 2 years. Then you can laugh at the "schmucks" who's still working while you retire to the Caribbean by age 40.
Yeah, that works for someone like me. Most people aren't going to land a job like that straight out of college, and the ones that do typically have huge debts to pay off. For someone of average intelligence - or less (this is 50% of the population) - they're probably better off learning to be a plumber and starting to work right out of high school. They'll be money ahead of probably 50% of college graduates as long as they don't spend stupidly.
Nice to see another brand of highly overpriced routers fold up. There are much more flexible and cheaper alternatives.
I disagree with the sentiment. I have two airport expresses, and frankly they're wonderful. One of them is plugged in behind the Bose and has a cable running to the aux input of the Bose. With an easy touch of a button I can easily play music from my iphone or laptops to the Bose. That's been a nice feature. And, yes, I know about bluetooth, but I was doing this 10 years ago.
The other one was useful back when internet was spotty in hotels years ago. I always traveled (and still do) with the airport express and a short ethernet cable. If wifi is unable or sucks but a wired connection is available, I plug that thing in and have wifi. It's the size of a macbook charger, so it's easy to take along.
There is nothing preventing someone from pursuing plumbing (or electrical work, or HVAC, etc.) after earning a bachelor's degree. A smart college would create just this sort of program - a combination bachelor's degree in a non-work-specific area (say, medieval theology) with something that directly prepares someone for a job, like plumbing.
In any case, earning a bachelor's degree should be about the long-term opportunities rather than that first job. When the robot plumbers enter the workforce, you'd better have something to support your ability to transition to something else.
SMH. Yeah, you could go pay for a bachelor's degree and then become a plumber, or, if you're smart, you can go into plumbing when you graduate high school and get paid $40,000/year while other schmucks are paying for college. You'll only come out a couple hundred thousand ahead on that deal, so you might want to think hard about it.
About 15 years ago I was working a shit job with zero benefits - so no medical coverage. My shoulder was hurting a massive amount and the problem wasn't going away. I went to a local medical service to have it checked out but could not get them to give me any kind of estimate of the cost for just looking at my damn shoulder. You have to just accept whatever they decide to charge you after the fact.
No, you don't. They smelled a sucker (you, in case you're wondering) and took advantage.
If someone can't tell you up front, go somewhere else. It really is that easy.
You can also negotiate the rate. Just tell them you'll pay Medicare reimbursement rates for all procedures, cash up front. Trust me, it works.
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Kinda ironic given how much stick he gave crooked Hillary for ignoring security on email.
There are two issues with this:
1. It works the other way, too. The same people getting the vapors over Trump tweeting from an insecure phone will spend hours explaining how Hillary did nothing wrong with her email server.
2. The two aren't even comparable. She had classified emails on her unsecured server, in addition to Anthony Weiner's laptop. That's a security issue in and of itself. In Trump's case, twitter isn't the issue. Rather, the issue is that he has a phone on him that is a huge target for hacking. As long as they change the phone out regularly (which shouldn't be difficult since it's his twitter phone) there's a smaller chance of that happening. An email server sitting there for a couple of years is an easier, albeit different target.
Do you understand that you're writing parody there? Fixing the Middle East mess? Ask ISIS how it's going over there since Obama left office. He apparently has ended a 70 year war in Korea by mocking the fat, ugly imbecilic dictator on the other side over the internet. The economy is doing ell and employment is about the highest it's ever been. He's another Bill Clinton - horrible person, fine President.
Not just that. Government spending is inexplicably part of the GDP, so when the economy tanked so many years ago we had a "stimulus" package. A stimulus which magically offset the actual drop in the GDP, making our economy look somewhat steady.
He cared enough to virtue signal. I bet he also doesn't watch television and is a vegetarian. On second thought, probably not since he didn't mention either of those things.
Good. Another law regulating harmless activities between consenting adults bites the dust...
Not only a "law", but an obviously illegal one at that. The Constitution doesn't provide *any* possible authorization for Congress to be involved in such.
No idea how obama turned into Obamacare.
If Obamacare would have ended a 60 year war by shitposting on Twitter he would have been given another Nobel peace prize and weâ(TM)d never hear the end of how much of a genius he was.
Seems reasonable to me. In American cities we've had to get used to being gunned down by random drive-by's, mass shooters, various random acts of violence. The levels of these killings are much greater than the occasional terrorist attack in the UK.
And, yet, the violence level in gun-free London is higher now than New York City. They're just using knives.
Weird. As if those of us who say guns aren't the problem are correct or something.
Oh, wait. We are.
Public health measures used to be debatable without crazy lies diverting attention.
Go ahead and show us one lie - just one - in what he wrote. Should be easy.
What can't he do?!
Beat Triangle Man.
As an added bonus, that extra time waiting for the blood draw means your BAC is decreasing.
Not necessarily. If you gulp down a few beers and quickly go drive, your BAC might be .04% when you get pulled over, and .10% later on.
They came to my door a couple of times trying to sell me a "fiber" connection. I told them that fiber isn't being run down my road at this time, so they couldn't offer such and certainly couldn't offer something to compete with my 300Mbit Comcast connection. When I looked they're selling DSL but claiming it's "fiber" since they're running fiber to the vault. Geeze. By that definition dialup is fiber. They also claimed that Comcast isn't offering gigabit speeds around Nashville.
https://www.tennessean.com/sto...
You'd think they would know their competition at least that well.
What's weird to me is that they send salespeople to my door. I live pretty much in the country, albeit at the edge of town. My subdivision has acre lots, and the houses on this road are really sparse. They actually drive - two people in a car - from house to house. That means coming a hundred feet down my driveway to park and try to make a sale. After sending ten pounds of paper, by the way.
I was able to make them lose one sale, which I'm happy about. Someone mentioned on Nextdoor that they were dumping Comcast so they could try AT&T's new fiber service. I knew they didn't have fiber, so I gave them the exact question to ask the AT&T people (basically, "do I have fiber coming all the way to my house?") They reported a couple of days later that they were canceling the AT&T service since it wasn't really fiber.
Anyway, I'm not real impressed with AT&T.
I was working at Indiana University at the time. In the fall of 1993 I found the world wide web. I got xmosaic working on my unix desktop and also installed NCSA httpd. I downloaded the HTML specification and got to work implementing web pages. At the time, I had pages that took 30 seconds to generate.
Our department (basically IT for the university) was smack dab in the middle of moving our information services from the VAX/VMS cluster to the newfangled gopher service.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Along with a few other folks I did a "stop the presses" and convinced them to abandon that project and go straight to the WWW. It took a lot of convincing since they were so invested in getting gopher up and running. Plus, the text-only information was a pretty easy direct-map to gopher.
The browsers were really primitive at the time. No stylesheets, but we had inline images and could set background colors.
Not only that, the development was mainly done on the X11 platform. The Windows and Mac browsers were always lagging in features.
Fill-out forms were a new thing, and the sub ordering application was the standard demonstration for that. Before fill-out forms, there was the "isindex" tag which would show a search box, the contents of which would be added as the "query" part of the url when you hit enter.
There were no cookies and thus no real way to keep state. When I quit the university, we were working on a way to store session information in files on the back end. The idea was basically what PHP was doing back around 1999 - give the user an MD5 hash or something that was used as the query portion of the url. Every url had to go through CGI, and the script would look up the file containing the session information and read it in, and possibly write it out. We wanted to move some of the administrative actions - such as students setting up accounts - to the web. Since fill-out forms weren't really available on the Mac and Windows platforms, we were looking at using "isindex" to get all information to the backend.
It's amazing how far we've come in 25 years. I started doing heavy web development in 1999 and even then it was amazing how far it had advanced.
When I upgraded to 300Mbit service here, it was only available if I also got cable TV along with it. It gets better. They wouldn't give it to me until I plugged in the set top box and went through its entire setup. Then, and only then, did I get 300Mbit service. I tried. I mean, the set top box sat in its box for a few days and I finally called and asked why my service wasn't upgraded. They made it clear that I'd have to plug that thing in.
The good part is that at least their set top box now includes Netflix and Youtube. If they'd get Prime Video I'd be 100% happy with it. We literally don't watch broadcast TV. I haven't seen a commercial in my house in probably 10 years.
Anyway, yeah, I don't like it. But I get 300Mbit service for $90/month, which I'm okay with. I used to be an internet-only customer for many years, but they put a ceiling on that at (I think) 100Mbit.
There's no competition where I'm at. AT&T is offering DSL out here, and calling it "fiber".
As for the "no tax increases, never!"-attitude, that really doesn't work at all for tax revenue drops or increased costs, particularly unexpected ones (like natural disasters). The only options that leaves you with are cutting down on essential services, taking on debt or moving around money in the budget like how they move away money that's supposed to go to education into other essential services when lottery money starts coming in.
You left out the obvious option: cutting non-essential services. This is what every business and household does when revenue drops. Maybe we don't eat out as often or see movies in the theater. Maybe 500 cable channels aren't so important. We don't quit eating, but we do cut stuff that we don't need.
Education has a lot of bloat in it, but mainly at the administrative level. What we see time and again is that giving more money to "education" doesn't end up as raises for teachers. It ends up with non-essential stuff. Plenty has been written about this:
http://reason.com/archives/201...
"Since 1970, inflation-adjusted spending per pupil has doubled.... Teachers should indeed be paid better—and it’s worth asking why they haven’t gained more from the big increases in education spending over the past few decades."
Reason had a good article a few years ago showing what happened when a certain state increased education funding - it all went to lavish new offices for administrators. Not a penny went to teachers.
Now if only it were hooked up to something nice it may be worth listening to.
By the way I'm taking a dig at your choice of sound system, not your choice of Airport. That thing was* just fine.
*It is completely outclassed by the competition these days.
Understand. However, it's in the kitchen and sounds great in that context.
Just curious - in your worldview how do you reconcile the âoeTrump is a Russian stoogeâ fantasy narrative with the âoeRussia is fighting us in proxy warsâ reality?
One of them is plugged in behind the Bose
Of course it is. You need to hook an overpriced sound system to an overpriced Airplay receiver.
Yep. And 12 years ago my very nontechnical wife had no problem playing music from her computer to the Bose in the kitchen. Ultimately, I got more asian babe wife out of the deal. You might not understand that.
Maybe next they can work on a powerful escape key and usb port on the macbook pro.
Everybody expects something back from society. Many people are vindictive when seeing someone get something back from society, most notably, currently, the right wing. The social score thing could be a product of either wing, regardless of the exact wording used by one person.
And, another mask continues to fall......
...or, if you're smart, you can go into plumbing when you graduate high school and get paid $40,000/year while other schmucks are paying for college. You'll only come out a couple hundred thousand ahead
Or if you're even smarter, you'll pick a major that nets you an $100k job straight out of college and pay off your student loans in 2 years. Then you can laugh at the "schmucks" who's still working while you retire to the Caribbean by age 40.
Yeah, that works for someone like me. Most people aren't going to land a job like that straight out of college, and the ones that do typically have huge debts to pay off. For someone of average intelligence - or less (this is 50% of the population) - they're probably better off learning to be a plumber and starting to work right out of high school. They'll be money ahead of probably 50% of college graduates as long as they don't spend stupidly.
You may have missed the dogwhistles. "You want anything back from society?" Right there. Leftist.
Nice to see another brand of highly overpriced routers fold up. There are much more flexible and cheaper alternatives.
I disagree with the sentiment. I have two airport expresses, and frankly they're wonderful. One of them is plugged in behind the Bose and has a cable running to the aux input of the Bose. With an easy touch of a button I can easily play music from my iphone or laptops to the Bose. That's been a nice feature. And, yes, I know about bluetooth, but I was doing this 10 years ago.
The other one was useful back when internet was spotty in hotels years ago. I always traveled (and still do) with the airport express and a short ethernet cable. If wifi is unable or sucks but a wired connection is available, I plug that thing in and have wifi. It's the size of a macbook charger, so it's easy to take along.
There is nothing preventing someone from pursuing plumbing (or electrical work, or HVAC, etc.) after earning a bachelor's degree. A smart college would create just this sort of program - a combination bachelor's degree in a non-work-specific area (say, medieval theology) with something that directly prepares someone for a job, like plumbing.
In any case, earning a bachelor's degree should be about the long-term opportunities rather than that first job. When the robot plumbers enter the workforce, you'd better have something to support your ability to transition to something else.
SMH. Yeah, you could go pay for a bachelor's degree and then become a plumber, or, if you're smart, you can go into plumbing when you graduate high school and get paid $40,000/year while other schmucks are paying for college. You'll only come out a couple hundred thousand ahead on that deal, so you might want to think hard about it.
About 15 years ago I was working a shit job with zero benefits - so no medical coverage. My shoulder was hurting a massive amount and the problem wasn't going away. I went to a local medical service to have it checked out but could not get them to give me any kind of estimate of the cost for just looking at my damn shoulder. You have to just accept whatever they decide to charge you after the fact.
No, you don't. They smelled a sucker (you, in case you're wondering) and took advantage.
If someone can't tell you up front, go somewhere else. It really is that easy.
You can also negotiate the rate. Just tell them you'll pay Medicare reimbursement rates for all procedures, cash up front. Trust me, it works.