Over the last 20 years, the number of House districts that swing between political parties has shrunk by two-thirds from 103 in 1992 to roughly 35 today, Silver found. At the same time, the number of districts where parties win by landslides has nearly doubled from 123 to 242.
Today, 55 percent of House members come from districts where their biggest threat is losing a primary election, not the general election. Of the landslide districts, 124 are held by Republicans and 117 Democrats (one is an independent). They have little incentive to compromise. Instead, their incentive is to play to their party base. Making independent boards responsible for redistricting, as some states have done, would be far better.
Any other bullshit you want to shovel asshole? You have blood on your hands by virtue of your blind suckage of the lies. That makes you an accessory to evil and as such, you deserve loathing just as the people pulling the trigger on "dogs" (the childlike two legged variety) in drone attacks deserve.
How much does one launch cost? How much does it cost to blow up innocent people (women and children included though I value them neither more nor less than males) by drone just about every day of the year.
I really don't know where my priorities are at -- what the fuck is wrong with me for valuing interesting scientific data over blowing up random people and making enemies of the survivors.
Yeah -- a big FUCK YOU to that. It's totally warranted and really, not even a tiny fraction of a fraction of a fraction of percent harsh enough for the total FUCKHEADS in WA DC.
I wondered about that too but chalked it up to being a slashdot summary. I'm guessing the law is going to be a little clearer on what entities are subject to request. I'm thinking it means that an employer could ask a former employer which ran its own email service, if it could have a copy of any emails it still has on file. I'd guess a bit of reluctance on the part of the former employer, but you can always ask. Same thing for a school.
There are one or two outliers in either major party. Those outliers should be tossed from the data set because they are completely unrepresentative of the mass of those in the DNC or GOP.
Wyden yesterday had two amendments: one that would simply require the NSA to give a general estimate of how many Americans are having their communications intercepted under this law (information the NSA has steadfastly refused to provide), and another which would state that the NSA is barred from eavesdropping on Americans on US soil without a warrant. Merkley's amendment would compel the public release of secret judicial rulings from the FISA court which purport to interpret the scope of the eavesdropping law on the ground that "secret law is inconsistent with democratic governance"; the Obama administration has refused to release a single such opinion even though the court, "on at least one occasion", found that the government was violating the Fourth Amendment in how it was using the law to eavesdrop on Americans.
But the Obama White House opposed all amendments, demanding a "clean" renewal of the law without any oversight or transparency reforms. Earlier this month, the GOP-led House complied by passing a reform-free version of the law's renewal, and sent the bill Obama wanted to the Senate, where it was debated yesterday afternoon.
This is of course in contrast to his pre-election 2008 promise to oppose the original bill (which he didn't do, voting for it instead). Now he loves it so much, he won't countenance any modifications.
Aside from that, an app could well be totally interractive with the kid. I suggest "cat games". Set kid on lap, fire it up, and help the kid touch the bugs. Interactive and teaches skills:
For a start, Obama could start not behaving like GWB. I thought GWB was an ass because of the things he did. Turns out Obama is a worse ass.
There's a whole lot of greybeard inertia based on the idea that Democrats are liberals. Obama's first four years proved that the Democrats aren't who they were in 1974, and I wish people would wake up. Evil is evil. It is evil when the GOP does it. And it DOES NOT become ponies just because the Democrats do it.
My parents were hippies. When I was born, we were living in a VW bus in the campgrounds of Humboldt county. Peace and love, man.
And when I was a grade schooler, I drew pictures of planes attacking ships, and tanks, and guns, and built little battleships out of blocks of wood and "sunk" them in the yard using gasoline and matches.
It shocks me that the police can get warrant to search his house simply because of a drawing. That's just crazy because by that standard, every family with a boy in it is subject to search, and that's crazy unreasonable.
People going about their daily business in a foreign country not at war with us, who would probably never earn enough in their lifetime just to get the planefare to the US together, are "insurgents"? What fucked up warped kind of asshole are you?
And of course, in classic terrorist tradition, we go for a double tap, targeting the rescuers acting on natural human instinct to help those in need, or funeral attendees wishing to say goodbye to their loved ones.
It's not just that -- the term "enemy combatant" has been redefined to mean any male more than 12 or 13 years old. It's pretty hard to miss a combatant when you basically target any non-infant male.
Well, it's not merely a lack of reprisal -- it's total celebration of murder. Democrats are the New GOP, and Old GOP is a parody of itself. That Democrats consider themselves liberals is absolute self-delusion. It has to be the most disgusting party ever, filled to the brim as it is with hypocrites who hated Bush (with good reason) but love Obama when he does the same shit and more.
Entertainmentification of the murder "savages". Check.
Destroying the war powers act so that the president has sole ability to engage in war. Check.
Persecution of whistleblowers. Check
Authoritarian America, brought to you by the Adam-Lanza-in-Chief, president and leader of the New GOP (aka, Obama).
And yeah, some of you may be offended, but do note that Obama killed 14 women and 21 children exactly three years to the day prior to the Newton masacre using cluster bombs in Yemen under with the blessing of its dictatorial asshole leader, then managed to convice (personally contacted the Yemeni president) to keep the reporter who broke the story in jail. FN1. About cluster bombs, Obama tried to undermine a treaty banning, they're about as effective as landmines in blowing up innocents years after their deployment. FN2.
So the title fits: Obama is the Adam-Lanza-in-Chief. You think his tears were those of compassion? Maybe they were tears of guilt because in that masacre, Obama would play the role of shooter.
Well, the question is how easy it is to get these things installed. For me, Linux is no issue, and I totally see how it is easier to type yum install [whatever] or apt-get install [whatever] -- but that makes most people balk.
Unfortunately, searching for programs is not always straightforward. Even experienced users get hung up. For example, I like the photo viewer formerly called GQview, but which is now named so badly the only way I can ever figure out what to type for the [whatever] part of the install command, is to google around for the new name, a name which violates spelling so bad it is practically impossible for me to keep it in my brain: geeqie
Just because a person criticizes Obama doesn't make them part of the GOP. Although it is shockingly rare, liberals do criticize Obama for being a neo-con right wing bastard. I'm a liberal through and through which is why I criticized GWB for being an evil fuckwad, and is exactly why I criticize Obama for being an evil fuckwad -- the "Adam Lanza in Chief" if you will -- what else would you call a person who spends every Tuesday deciding which random innocent people should die by drone attack. Indeed, exactly 3 years prior to the Newton crime, Obama killed 14 women and 21 children using cluster bombs. But yeah -- to you "progressives" of the "New GOP" (aka Democrats) -- those people don't matter. Their kinda brown and not Christian so you couldn't give a crap about their human rights. You Democrats make me fucking want to puke.
I never had the Treo and cell capabilities, but the just about every serious business use for a handheld device was contained in the Palm devices, as well as casual gaming. 10 years ago I was killing time while waiting around on appointments I was early to thanks to my calander app by playing Bejeweled on my color Handspring device. If I'd had a cell phone at that time, there was plug-in cell phone module for that but I didn't, so I didn't see the use then. The devices since then have basically been an evolution in the technology, which is cool but not ground breaking.
"Of course, Apple has lost much of the tech segment as customers due to their trolling, but that is a tiny bit of their income."
I wouldn't be so sure of that. I can think of 9 mac laptops that people I know have purchased based on my suggestion. And this is with approximately 30 seconds of thought. The number is surely higher than that.
As for why I've liked them -- I can easily run much of the X11 based software I use directly on them, or can do X forwarding over SSH in a totally straightforward manner from the CLI. Plus I can watch Netflix with zero headaches. The people I suggested them to weren't techies -- techies make their own decisions -- but the people who asked me valued my opinion more than whatever advertising they had been exposed to.
That's the past though -- Apple's trolling has really embittered me toward them. My wife wanted a tablet so I got her a Nexus 10 (and she loves it despite being an iPhone junkie). When my business partner recently wanted to get a laptop for her dad so he could follow some fantasy sport thing via a web browser, I pointed her to a cheap laptop on Newegg that would meet his needs. The crummy-res widescreen is fine for him because he's really old and can't see well anyway.
Anyway, the point is, if you have geeks on your side, you don't just sell a computer to that geek -- you sell computers to him/her plus friends and acquaintances for basically zero in advertising costs. One geek is easily worth ten sales, but the ads are easily forgotten, ignored, missed, not believed, or misunderstood. Plus they cost a bundle. A geek on your side is free, profitable, and extremely effective.
Yeah, the shareholders are going to love that "cut off your nose to spite your face" policy and start wondering what other countries FB is going to bail out of. They already don't have enough customers to justify their IPO price -- to actively reduce them seems a rather unwise policy.
Slashdot Mirror
Won't happen due to the district gerymandering.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/america-s-greatest-economic-weakness-in-2012-was-its-government-20121231
Jeez -- don't give them any ideas. They'll gobble it up with relish.
Sure is easy to always hit the terrorists when "militant" is defined as a non-infant male killed by drone.
http://voices.yahoo.com/report-obama-redefines-militant-avoid-counting-11403806.html
Any other bullshit you want to shovel asshole? You have blood on your hands by virtue of your blind suckage of the lies. That makes you an accessory to evil and as such, you deserve loathing just as the people pulling the trigger on "dogs" (the childlike two legged variety) in drone attacks deserve.
http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2011/07/18/washingtons-untrue-claims-no-civilian-deaths-in-pakistan-drone-strikes/
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/pain-continues-after-war-for-american-drone-pilot-a-872726.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208307/Americas-deadly-double-tap-drone-attacks-killing-49-people-known-terrorist-Pakistan.html
Suggest a better word which encapsulates the loathing our Federal rulers deserve. As I mentioned, even that one is wholly insufficient. I'm all ears.
How much does one launch cost? How much does it cost to blow up innocent people (women and children included though I value them neither more nor less than males) by drone just about every day of the year.
I really don't know where my priorities are at -- what the fuck is wrong with me for valuing interesting scientific data over blowing up random people and making enemies of the survivors.
Yeah -- a big FUCK YOU to that. It's totally warranted and really, not even a tiny fraction of a fraction of a fraction of percent harsh enough for the total FUCKHEADS in WA DC.
I wondered about that too but chalked it up to being a slashdot summary. I'm guessing the law is going to be a little clearer on what entities are subject to request. I'm thinking it means that an employer could ask a former employer which ran its own email service, if it could have a copy of any emails it still has on file. I'd guess a bit of reluctance on the part of the former employer, but you can always ask. Same thing for a school.
I thought it was a sign of being a terrorist or something like that. For most positions, that is a reason to not hire. I'm so glad I'm self-employed.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/07/29/1627203/facebook-abstainers-could-be-labeled-suspicious
There are one or two outliers in either major party. Those outliers should be tossed from the data set because they are completely unrepresentative of the mass of those in the DNC or GOP.
Glenn Greenwald has some great analysis on this vote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/28/fisa-feinstein-obama-democrats-eavesdropping
This is of course in contrast to his pre-election 2008 promise to oppose the original bill (which he didn't do, voting for it instead). Now he loves it so much, he won't countenance any modifications.
Democrats: The New GOP.
Terrible art, awesome on the irony though:
most recent:
http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/comics/
a prime example:
http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/comics/470
Well, kids should probably just stick to nano.
Aside from that, an app could well be totally interractive with the kid. I suggest "cat games". Set kid on lap, fire it up, and help the kid touch the bugs. Interactive and teaches skills:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.catgamesfree&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImFpci5jYXRnYW1lc2ZyZWUiXQ..
Or if squishing bugs is too violent, how about Pew Pew Laser. Just makes a pretty light and "pew" sound:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jcoco.actual.pewpewlasers&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5qY29jby5hY3R1YWwucGV3cGV3bGFzZXJzIl0.
For a start, Obama could start not behaving like GWB. I thought GWB was an ass because of the things he did. Turns out Obama is a worse ass.
There's a whole lot of greybeard inertia based on the idea that Democrats are liberals. Obama's first four years proved that the Democrats aren't who they were in 1974, and I wish people would wake up. Evil is evil. It is evil when the GOP does it. And it DOES NOT become ponies just because the Democrats do it.
My parents were hippies. When I was born, we were living in a VW bus in the campgrounds of Humboldt county. Peace and love, man.
And when I was a grade schooler, I drew pictures of planes attacking ships, and tanks, and guns, and built little battleships out of blocks of wood and "sunk" them in the yard using gasoline and matches.
It shocks me that the police can get warrant to search his house simply because of a drawing. That's just crazy because by that standard, every family with a boy in it is subject to search, and that's crazy unreasonable.
People going about their daily business in a foreign country not at war with us, who would probably never earn enough in their lifetime just to get the planefare to the US together, are "insurgents"? What fucked up warped kind of asshole are you?
And of course, in classic terrorist tradition, we go for a double tap, targeting the rescuers acting on natural human instinct to help those in need, or funeral attendees wishing to say goodbye to their loved ones.
It's not just that -- the term "enemy combatant" has been redefined to mean any male more than 12 or 13 years old. It's pretty hard to miss a combatant when you basically target any non-infant male.
Well, it's not merely a lack of reprisal -- it's total celebration of murder. Democrats are the New GOP, and Old GOP is a parody of itself. That Democrats consider themselves liberals is absolute self-delusion. It has to be the most disgusting party ever, filled to the brim as it is with hypocrites who hated Bush (with good reason) but love Obama when he does the same shit and more.
Authoritarian America, brought to you by the Adam-Lanza-in-Chief, president and leader of the New GOP (aka, Obama).
And yeah, some of you may be offended, but do note that Obama killed 14 women and 21 children exactly three years to the day prior to the Newton masacre using cluster bombs in Yemen under with the blessing of its dictatorial asshole leader, then managed to convice (personally contacted the Yemeni president) to keep the reporter who broke the story in jail. FN1. About cluster bombs, Obama tried to undermine a treaty banning, they're about as effective as landmines in blowing up innocents years after their deployment. FN2.
So the title fits: Obama is the Adam-Lanza-in-Chief. You think his tears were those of compassion? Maybe they were tears of guilt because in that masacre, Obama would play the role of shooter.
FN1: http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/obamas_personal_role_in_a_journalists_imprisonment/
FN2: http://news.antiwar.com/2011/11/10/us-moves-to-overturn-ban-on-cluster-bombs/
Well, the question is how easy it is to get these things installed. For me, Linux is no issue, and I totally see how it is easier to type yum install [whatever] or apt-get install [whatever] -- but that makes most people balk.
Unfortunately, searching for programs is not always straightforward. Even experienced users get hung up. For example, I like the photo viewer formerly called GQview, but which is now named so badly the only way I can ever figure out what to type for the [whatever] part of the install command, is to google around for the new name, a name which violates spelling so bad it is practically impossible for me to keep it in my brain: geeqie
Seriously -- why?
Just because a person criticizes Obama doesn't make them part of the GOP. Although it is shockingly rare, liberals do criticize Obama for being a neo-con right wing bastard. I'm a liberal through and through which is why I criticized GWB for being an evil fuckwad, and is exactly why I criticize Obama for being an evil fuckwad -- the "Adam Lanza in Chief" if you will -- what else would you call a person who spends every Tuesday deciding which random innocent people should die by drone attack. Indeed, exactly 3 years prior to the Newton crime, Obama killed 14 women and 21 children using cluster bombs. But yeah -- to you "progressives" of the "New GOP" (aka Democrats) -- those people don't matter. Their kinda brown and not Christian so you couldn't give a crap about their human rights. You Democrats make me fucking want to puke.
Obviously no, I was explaining why I like OS X. That's all that part was about.
I never had the Treo and cell capabilities, but the just about every serious business use for a handheld device was contained in the Palm devices, as well as casual gaming. 10 years ago I was killing time while waiting around on appointments I was early to thanks to my calander app by playing Bejeweled on my color Handspring device. If I'd had a cell phone at that time, there was plug-in cell phone module for that but I didn't, so I didn't see the use then. The devices since then have basically been an evolution in the technology, which is cool but not ground breaking.
"Of course, Apple has lost much of the tech segment as customers due to their trolling, but that is a tiny bit of their income."
I wouldn't be so sure of that. I can think of 9 mac laptops that people I know have purchased based on my suggestion. And this is with approximately 30 seconds of thought. The number is surely higher than that.
As for why I've liked them -- I can easily run much of the X11 based software I use directly on them, or can do X forwarding over SSH in a totally straightforward manner from the CLI. Plus I can watch Netflix with zero headaches. The people I suggested them to weren't techies -- techies make their own decisions -- but the people who asked me valued my opinion more than whatever advertising they had been exposed to.
That's the past though -- Apple's trolling has really embittered me toward them. My wife wanted a tablet so I got her a Nexus 10 (and she loves it despite being an iPhone junkie). When my business partner recently wanted to get a laptop for her dad so he could follow some fantasy sport thing via a web browser, I pointed her to a cheap laptop on Newegg that would meet his needs. The crummy-res widescreen is fine for him because he's really old and can't see well anyway.
Anyway, the point is, if you have geeks on your side, you don't just sell a computer to that geek -- you sell computers to him/her plus friends and acquaintances for basically zero in advertising costs. One geek is easily worth ten sales, but the ads are easily forgotten, ignored, missed, not believed, or misunderstood. Plus they cost a bundle. A geek on your side is free, profitable, and extremely effective.
Yeah, the shareholders are going to love that "cut off your nose to spite your face" policy and start wondering what other countries FB is going to bail out of. They already don't have enough customers to justify their IPO price -- to actively reduce them seems a rather unwise policy.