This seems to be pretty much the way it is now. I've walked the same political path for over 20 years now. When Obama got elected I got labeled wing because I wouldn't get on board with the Obama bashing.
Now that I won't get on board with the rabbit Trump hating I'm suddenly a alt right nut job.
If your "non technical mother" was running a recent copy of windows and complaining about it crashing all the time. Make me wonder what porn sites your dear old mother was visiting.
No, strike that. It doesn't make me wonder. Images of senior donkey porn.com are now filling my head.
And again you are wrong. Everything I said is perfectly relevant. You really should to keep things in context. I am well aware of what Trump said, just as I'm aware of what he meant when he said it. The "fine people on both sides" comment had nothing to do with nazi's or white supremacists. What it had to do with was the arguments about civil war monuments and the riots that happened at the time in Charleottesville. He was stating there are fine people on both sides of that argument. It had nothing to do with nazi's.
As for his views on white supremacy Trump just signed a resolution condemning it. Pretty much should be enough even for you.
An you are also quite wrong on everything you said.
The pissing match between NK and the US has been going on for 60+ years. Trump is handling it just fine. It is not Trump that is lobbing missiles over Japan and treating to set off nuclear weapons in the Pacific just because he can.
Yes, health care reform is moving along fine. Your very own post proves my point. The ones that have been tried are pretty bad so they have not passed. Which is why they are moving along just fine. Nice and slow, just as it should be for something as important.
Trump has condemned white supremacists and nazi's over and over. Just a few days ago he signed a bill from Congress condemning it. Turmp's position on the issue, along with the Supreme Court, Congress, and every other rational person in America is disgusting as they are, white supremacists and nazi's have just the same rights as everyone else. The right to assemble and the right to free speech.
That silly law has been waved already, but you probably didn't know about that just like you didn't know about the above mentioned bill did you? So yes, Trump is doing just fine here, too.
As for the economy snowflakes where panicking that the economy would tank soon after Trump took office, which it hasn't. In fact when he did take office the number went up instead of down. New jobs are being added and the economy is growing. So again even with Trump at the helm we are doing just fine.
As for his appointments, again he is appointing but Democrats in congress are blocking. He could do better but it is what is is. Even then we are still doing just fine.
So you see, even your doom and gloom is basically all hogwash. We are doing just fine.
And yes, I'll go with transistor radio, because those can get AM radio, which is where I'd go for my news. FM is full of Clearchannel crapola so even in an emergency I probably won't think to turn on FM radio.
Don't just top at AM if you are getting one for emergency. Get one that handles the shortwave bands too. The shortwave bands can pick up radio from all around the world so the can get signals that are come from outside of a disaster area. If the disaster is big enough it might take out all the AM stations in range of your radio.
But now, that same Clue-Free MORON has the temerity to attempt to make Apple look like "Bad Guys" that have simply REFUSED to "turn on" that which does not exist!
And we should just trust apple because they say it doesn't have one? Both AT&T and Samsung have told me that my S7 doesn't have a radio chip in it. An i trusted them and left it at that. Well turns out it does. I just tested it myself..
To Trump, white supremacists are "some very fine people"
This crap is getting old too. Do you even know what a white supremacists is? Do you even have a clue what their agenda is, other than what huffypost has told you? I bet you really don't.
Why don't you educate yourself a little. White supremacists don't just hate people of color, they hate Jewish people more than they hate people of color. To their narrow minded view all evil springs from Jewish origins. Even black people.
Trump has a number of Jewish people in his family. His grandson is Jewish. He universally supports Israel. To a white supremacists that is worse than being black.
Trump has failed at lots of things, but he also has got lots of other things done â" all of them bad for us,
Actually you are very much wrong on just about everything you said here. Trump hasn't really failed at anything but his timing on a lot of things. He has gotten a lot of good things done, and nothing really bad for us in any way. What I mean by US, I mean the USA. I honestly don't know where you are posting from. Might be Iran or NK for all I know. So, things Trump is doing might just be bad for you.
Once you pull the TDS blinders off and examine what Trump is doing for the USA, you will actually see is doing a pretty good job. He got a rocky start, made a lot of amateur mistakes, but now 8 months in he seems to be getting the hang of the job. He is still make a few amateur mistakes but seems to be correcting them.
Healthcare reform is happening, and it is happening at a pace that is should be. Illegal immigration has slowed, which is good. He handled the DACA issues perfectly by kicking it back into the hands of Congress where it belongs. He has scaled back his talk of a "big beautiful wall" since being elected. I imagine soon that will be quietly put down too. Employment numbers are going up, the economy is humming along just fine. And his handling of not 1 but 3 major natural disasters is nothing short of outstanding.
So you see, despite the gloom and doom SJW predicted of Trump none of it has really come to pass. We are doing just fine.
I didn't even know this feature existed. If I did I wouldn't have used it. The way I see it, it kind of defeats the purpose of security if a simple device such as a ring can disable it.
With that being said what gripes me is when companies have a feature on a device I purchased decide that I no longer need that feature and disable it. Like when Microsoft "decided" that I didn't need gadgets in windows 7 any more.
You have no ideal what the helicopters where doing or why they where at that altitude. That air space around where they where flying is some of the most congested airspace in the world. They may have been flying that low because they where told to fly that low. In class C airspace, you fly where you are told, not where you want too.
And if they where on final approach then its perfectly acceptable to be that low. You don't like aircraft flying over your head, don't live next to a airport.
An if you will notice I specifically said as long as you are properly licensed and you drone is carrying a transponder I have no problem with you flying your drone above 500 feet for entertainment.
Joe's Millionaire Air Taxi does not need to fly over my property at 500 ft
But we are not talking about Joe Millionaire Air Taxi are we? We are talking about legitimate reasons for aircraft to be below 500 feet. An to correct you, yes every reason I mentioned is perfectly valid and legal. And thank God/Zeus/Cthulhu they are. Civilian helicopters and fixed wing aircraft are routinely involved in search and rescue of downed aircraft .
Yes there are. There are plenty of reasons. Was there a airport near? Police helicopters providing support or on the ground operations. Military, Police, and Civilian helicopters involved in search and rescue operations. There are plenty of reasons for this.
Where there is no reason for a civilian drone to operate above more than 400 ft above the ground. There is plenty of reasons for commercial drones to operate above that limit but they should require licenses and transponders. There could even be a special license to allow civilian drones to operate above that limit if they wanted too.
Aircraft carry people, drones do not. Some of these drones weight 40 pounds. That is enough to bring down many aircraft in a strike. If a few 10 pound ducks can bring down a 737, what can a couple of 40 pound drones to do to one?
Time to stop treating these like toys and start treating for what they are, aircraft.
The chopper was low but seemed to be at at its legal flight altitude. Honestly, I'm don't see a need for your average consumer to fly more than 400 feet above the ground. Anything that flies higher should be required to be licensed and carry tracking transponders like any other aircraft.
I'm struggling with the Hercules Text. I'm halfway through it and not really impressed. I have Eternity Road and the next Alex Benedict novel, Coming Home, in the queue. There is a new Patricia Hutchins novel coming out next year that I'm looking forward too. Infinity Beach was the first McDevitt book I read., or was it The Engines of God?
Having a active lifestyle is one of the reasons I went wireless. I've seen a number of wired headphones get grabbed by various parts of gym equipment and bicycles to think about it. Of course this never happened to me because I kept my cord well managed but I just got rid of the cord and it became one less thing to worry about.
Jim Butcher is a good writer. I like his style too. I just finished reading the entire series of Dresden novels, again, to keep it fresh in my mind while waiting for Peace Talks.
I am half way through The Hercules Text by Jack McDevitt. After that I had planned to read a few more of his stand alone works, Eternity Road and Moonfall but I'm thinking of diverting to read some Jerry Pournelle's works. I'll probably start with Footfall since it has been on my "to be reread list" for almost a decade. From there who knows? I'm looking at a whole list of Pournelle that deserve to be re-read.
I have yet to see a set of Bluetooth headphones, at any price, that can adequately replace wired headphones for my use case. The battery doesn't last nearly long enough
If you are only worried about battery life then you haven't been looking at the right headphones. My BTS Pro 66 have continuous playback rated at 40 hours.
Agreed. I'm listening to the indy pop playlist on Spotify now. I'm hearing music that I've never heard before, music that I will never hear on the radio. So far everything that I have heard is far better than anything I would hear on the radio.
Streaming services are the up and coming 800 pound gorilla's of the music world. I know there has been some issues with this model and some artist complaining about getting paid. But most of those artists seem to be from the over hyped big industry thinking their music is worth more than it is.
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This seems to be pretty much the way it is now. I've walked the same political path for over 20 years now. When Obama got elected I got labeled wing because I wouldn't get on board with the Obama bashing.
Now that I won't get on board with the rabbit Trump hating I'm suddenly a alt right nut job.
I wonder as how the story itself in it current form managed to get to the front page of /. in the first place.
If your "non technical mother" was running a recent copy of windows and complaining about it crashing all the time. Make me wonder what porn sites your dear old mother was visiting.
No, strike that. It doesn't make me wonder. Images of senior donkey porn .com are now filling my head.
And again you are wrong. Everything I said is perfectly relevant. You really should to keep things in context. I am well aware of what Trump said, just as I'm aware of what he meant when he said it. The "fine people on both sides" comment had nothing to do with nazi's or white supremacists. What it had to do with was the arguments about civil war monuments and the riots that happened at the time in Charleottesville. He was stating there are fine people on both sides of that argument. It had nothing to do with nazi's.
As for his views on white supremacy Trump just signed a resolution condemning it. Pretty much should be enough even for you.
An you are also quite wrong on everything you said.
The pissing match between NK and the US has been going on for 60+ years. Trump is handling it just fine. It is not Trump that is lobbing missiles over Japan and treating to set off nuclear weapons in the Pacific just because he can.
Yes, health care reform is moving along fine. Your very own post proves my point. The ones that have been tried are pretty bad so they have not passed. Which is why they are moving along just fine. Nice and slow, just as it should be for something as important.
Trump has condemned white supremacists and nazi's over and over. Just a few days ago he signed a bill from Congress condemning it. Turmp's position on the issue, along with the Supreme Court, Congress, and every other rational person in America is disgusting as they are, white supremacists and nazi's have just the same rights as everyone else. The right to assemble and the right to free speech.
That silly law has been waved already, but you probably didn't know about that just like you didn't know about the above mentioned bill did you? So yes, Trump is doing just fine here, too.
As for the economy snowflakes where panicking that the economy would tank soon after Trump took office, which it hasn't. In fact when he did take office the number went up instead of down. New jobs are being added and the economy is growing. So again even with Trump at the helm we are doing just fine.
As for his appointments, again he is appointing but Democrats in congress are blocking. He could do better but it is what is is. Even then we are still doing just fine.
So you see, even your doom and gloom is basically all hogwash. We are doing just fine.
And yes, I'll go with transistor radio, because those can get AM radio, which is where I'd go for my news. FM is full of Clearchannel crapola so even in an emergency I probably won't think to turn on FM radio.
Don't just top at AM if you are getting one for emergency. Get one that handles the shortwave bands too. The shortwave bands can pick up radio from all around the world so the can get signals that are come from outside of a disaster area. If the disaster is big enough it might take out all the AM stations in range of your radio.
But now, that same Clue-Free MORON has the temerity to attempt to make Apple look like "Bad Guys" that have simply REFUSED to "turn on" that which does not exist!
And we should just trust apple because they say it doesn't have one? Both AT&T and Samsung have told me that my S7 doesn't have a radio chip in it. An i trusted them and left it at that. Well turns out it does. I just tested it myself..
I have a samsung S7 and I can't believe that actually worked.
To Trump, white supremacists are "some very fine people"
This crap is getting old too. Do you even know what a white supremacists is? Do you even have a clue what their agenda is, other than what huffypost has told you? I bet you really don't.
Why don't you educate yourself a little. White supremacists don't just hate people of color, they hate Jewish people more than they hate people of color. To their narrow minded view all evil springs from Jewish origins. Even black people.
Trump has a number of Jewish people in his family. His grandson is Jewish. He universally supports Israel. To a white supremacists that is worse than being black.
By all means I'll spare you the nazi comparisons, and just call you what you are. A god damn moron.
Trump has failed at lots of things, but he also has got lots of other things done â" all of them bad for us,
Actually you are very much wrong on just about everything you said here. Trump hasn't really failed at anything but his timing on a lot of things. He has gotten a lot of good things done, and nothing really bad for us in any way. What I mean by US, I mean the USA. I honestly don't know where you are posting from. Might be Iran or NK for all I know. So, things Trump is doing might just be bad for you.
Once you pull the TDS blinders off and examine what Trump is doing for the USA, you will actually see is doing a pretty good job. He got a rocky start, made a lot of amateur mistakes, but now 8 months in he seems to be getting the hang of the job. He is still make a few amateur mistakes but seems to be correcting them.
Healthcare reform is happening, and it is happening at a pace that is should be. Illegal immigration has slowed, which is good. He handled the DACA issues perfectly by kicking it back into the hands of Congress where it belongs. He has scaled back his talk of a "big beautiful wall" since being elected. I imagine soon that will be quietly put down too. Employment numbers are going up, the economy is humming along just fine. And his handling of not 1 but 3 major natural disasters is nothing short of outstanding.
So you see, despite the gloom and doom SJW predicted of Trump none of it has really come to pass. We are doing just fine.
Came in for the Trump Derangement Syndrome posts. Found it in the first dozen.
I didn't even know this feature existed. If I did I wouldn't have used it. The way I see it, it kind of defeats the purpose of security if a simple device such as a ring can disable it.
With that being said what gripes me is when companies have a feature on a device I purchased decide that I no longer need that feature and disable it. Like when Microsoft "decided" that I didn't need gadgets in windows 7 any more.
You are American by your hopes and dreams, not by where you where born..
You have no ideal what the helicopters where doing or why they where at that altitude. That air space around where they where flying is some of the most congested airspace in the world. They may have been flying that low because they where told to fly that low. In class C airspace, you fly where you are told, not where you want too.
And if they where on final approach then its perfectly acceptable to be that low. You don't like aircraft flying over your head, don't live next to a airport.
Sure there is. My entertainment
An if you will notice I specifically said as long as you are properly licensed and you drone is carrying a transponder I have no problem with you flying your drone above 500 feet for entertainment.
Joe's Millionaire Air Taxi does not need to fly over my property at 500 ft
But we are not talking about Joe Millionaire Air Taxi are we? We are talking about legitimate reasons for aircraft to be below 500 feet. An to correct you, yes every reason I mentioned is perfectly valid and legal. And thank God/Zeus/Cthulhu they are. Civilian helicopters and fixed wing aircraft are routinely involved in search and rescue of downed aircraft .
Yes there are. There are plenty of reasons. Was there a airport near? Police helicopters providing support or on the ground operations. Military, Police, and Civilian helicopters involved in search and rescue operations. There are plenty of reasons for this.
Where there is no reason for a civilian drone to operate above more than 400 ft above the ground. There is plenty of reasons for commercial drones to operate above that limit but they should require licenses and transponders. There could even be a special license to allow civilian drones to operate above that limit if they wanted too.
Aircraft carry people, drones do not. Some of these drones weight 40 pounds. That is enough to bring down many aircraft in a strike. If a few 10 pound ducks can bring down a 737, what can a couple of 40 pound drones to do to one?
Time to stop treating these like toys and start treating for what they are, aircraft.
The chopper was low but seemed to be at at its legal flight altitude. Honestly, I'm don't see a need for your average consumer to fly more than 400 feet above the ground. Anything that flies higher should be required to be licensed and carry tracking transponders like any other aircraft.
I'm struggling with the Hercules Text. I'm halfway through it and not really impressed. I have Eternity Road and the next Alex Benedict novel, Coming Home, in the queue. There is a new Patricia Hutchins novel coming out next year that I'm looking forward too. Infinity Beach was the first McDevitt book I read., or was it The Engines of God?
Having a active lifestyle is one of the reasons I went wireless. I've seen a number of wired headphones get grabbed by various parts of gym equipment and bicycles to think about it. Of course this never happened to me because I kept my cord well managed but I just got rid of the cord and it became one less thing to worry about.
Jim Butcher is a good writer. I like his style too. I just finished reading the entire series of Dresden novels, again, to keep it fresh in my mind while waiting for Peace Talks.
I am half way through The Hercules Text by Jack McDevitt. After that I had planned to read a few more of his stand alone works, Eternity Road and Moonfall but I'm thinking of diverting to read some Jerry Pournelle's works. I'll probably start with Footfall since it has been on my "to be reread list" for almost a decade. From there who knows? I'm looking at a whole list of Pournelle that deserve to be re-read.
I have yet to see a set of Bluetooth headphones, at any price, that can adequately replace wired headphones for my use case. The battery doesn't last nearly long enough
If you are only worried about battery life then you haven't been looking at the right headphones. My BTS Pro 66 have continuous playback rated at 40 hours.
Agreed. I'm listening to the indy pop playlist on Spotify now. I'm hearing music that I've never heard before, music that I will never hear on the radio. So far everything that I have heard is far better than anything I would hear on the radio.
Streaming services are the up and coming 800 pound gorilla's of the music world. I know there has been some issues with this model and some artist complaining about getting paid. But most of those artists seem to be from the over hyped big industry thinking their music is worth more than it is.