I am not saying voting should be an earned right; specifically here. I do think that it perhaps could be, tied to taxation.
I am simply arguing that voting should not be encouraged for its own sake. Any citizen that wants to vote and is interested should be invited and permitted to do so.
What I don't like is this "voting is a responsibility, everyone must go to the polls" line that is always pushed. Yes voting is a responsibility and you should only do it if you are taking it seriously. If you are they type to just go vote a strait party ticket because that is what your mom or dad always did; F-you, you are part of the problem. An uniformed vote is far worse for our society than a non vote. Either dedicate some hours to each election before you go to the polls or don't go.
They are not going to turn away money at the end of the day unless they are legally required to do so.
Do think any bars would card if the force of law did not obligate them to it? I doubt many would. I am sure a little human decency would stop most from selling liquor to children; but few would turn away teens.
facebook is in the same boat here. Yes its illegal for a political campaign to take foreign money. In a lot of cases its illegal for them to coordinate efforts with foreign actors.
I have yet to see anyone point a law that specifically prevents 99% of those face book ads from being underwritten by foreign persons. The only political speech foreigners are bared from AFAICT is explicit campaign activities IE running an ad advocating voting for or against a specific candidate. They can run issues ads all day long. Its not even clear its illegal for them to suggest a candidate is a criminal, or a Nazi, or whatever if they stop short of saying "vote no.." etc.
IMHO facebook did nothing wrong - they sold ad space. The people crying about Russian interference are sore loosers. The problem is not the American electorate being exposed to facebook ads, the problem is that they are easily swayed by facebook ads. This is the inevitable result of years and years of "everyone should vote" propaganda. No! Everyone should not vote; the right of everyone to vote should be protected strongly but people who don't take the time to study politics and the issues have no damn business at the polls. Voting is right! not a responsibility. If you don't want to put the effort in there should be no shame in that but at the same time its irresponsible to weigh in at all if the totality of information behind your opinion is a facebook meme.
The correct answer is to start educating people what voting is for and what its not for. Its for allowing those who want to take the time to contribute to informed policy making access to do so; its not for choosing the "Next top President" or electing "The first XXXXXX"
The first step to protecting a future for our grand kids is to recognize there is NOT a global solution. There are probably already to many people.
Population is the one driving factor. Everything else is a rounding error. Anyone who actually cares about the environment would be in favor of basically ending immigration. Limit agricultural exports and imports.
Here in the US we are essentially at the replacement rate in terms of birth rate. Stop letting new outsiders in. Deal with the not nearly as complex economic problem of having a flat population size as compared to growth beyond sustainability or population decline.
Let the rest of the worlds population 'naturally' adjust to the local carrying capacity of those places.
the fact that the technical requirements to offer broadband to rural communities are no different from those required for urban areas.
Whaaaat?
Really please compare wiring up say the Shenandoah valley with Richmond and get back to me on how the technical requirements are no different. When you can't use line of site, when there are no buried conduit just telephone polls along side thin strips of asphalt joining small communities. It gets even harder when you push east out of the valley into the Mountains.
In a nutshell, this encapsulates the key weakness of competitive markets and capitalism - it breaks down when something we need is not economically viable to those able to provide it - without an economic incentive, why would they bother?
Some economists would actually call that allocation efficacy. See you CAN actually get broadband basically anywhere; it might cost a small fortune but you can get. In other words if there is a *need* the market can meet it now - with T-Carriers, LTE and Satellite links. The actual answer is we don't *need* rural broadband for the most part, and consumer oriented mobile services are "good enough." There are pluses and minuses to living in the countyside - one of the negatives is you don't enjoy the connectivity those closer in do. Disclosure I am one of those folks out in the sticks who would stand to gain from rural broadband programs; and I STILL don't think its fair ask folks in the city to subsidize my habits.
Also by the way neither of your porposals can work because they cross political boundaries; that would require them to be implemented at the state level. If you think for a hot second any of the municipal and county governments are going to let State government come in and start telling them how they are going to do rights-of-way etc you have never been anywhere near a County Board Member or a meeting.
Every adjustment made since inception has tried to minimize the burden on industry, just like Ajit Shithead prefers.
Yes except the main stream media and the politicians are not really talking about rural broadband much. Its not major issue. If Ajit is really just the industry plant you seem to think he is; well he could easily as head of the FCC just choose not to talk about it either. Here is a crazy thought - maybe because someone differs with you on their views related to net neutrality; which it self is tied up in big untestable economic theory, it does not automatically have to mark them as evil or your sworn enemy. Just a thought, shithead
No I am not saying they have to name their anonymous sources. I am saying they either take responsibility for the information being factual or don't report it. Named sources are responsible for their statements antonymous sources; are not news worthy unless the can be corroborated.
An anonymous source says such and such and da da duh happened -> NOT NEWS
This reporter learned from an anonymous source that blah blah may have happened, after investigating the matter $NEWSORG found the following evidence to support the claim -> NEWS
the thing with apple is you have to "Get with the program"
USB-C is really nice if you embrace it. I have literally one lead I connect to my laptop when I return to my desk. Off that I get power, my other two monitors, a bunch of USB accessories, including my keyboard and mouse.
When I work with other people three of us can daisy chain our laptops on a conference table off a single power brick so we don't have to have a pile of power strips and bulky bricks all over the place.
Yes I miss magsafe a little.
As far as dongles go boo-hoo I have to carry C -> A adapter smaller than a quarter in case someone hands me a thumb drive. Nobody uses wired Ethernet anywhere on their laptop anymore other than their own desk. There is almost no reason to want with N speeds. Air-drop is waaaaay easier for moving stuff between machines and phones than thumbdrives ever were. Really stop with the USB sticks they are obsolete as floppy disks were in 1998; when we all said apple was wrong to get rid of those. Apple was right! in retrospect; they are right this time to to dumb the legacy USB stuff.
I am typing this on a MacBook Pro, and I use and iPhone 8.
What experience is sub par? Sure apple steers me towards their mail and photo apps but you certainly can install alternatives if you want to. Having evaluated other leading platforms before making my last round of purchases; I don't find the experience sub par.
I think its different; but certainly not worse. Personally I like it better; which is why I chose them. That said I think you can have as a good an experience on a higher end Android device; and certainly a surface is a nice laptop/tablet. My MacBook starts up faster though and does the things I need it to do; and OSX stays out of my way a lot better than Windows does; but comparatively speaking Windows and the Surface offer more 'features'.
As far as lock in goes - pulzee tell anyone who has been in the Android eco-system for a few years to just switch to something else, just like the iOS user they won't like it much. They will have apps they are attached to; work flows they are accustom too etc. Neither platform really 'locks' you in; its not like the days of old where you cant get your data out in a format others can read.
Now I think there is case to be made that Apple has 'slowed' some on the innovation front. I can't see why I need an iPhone X for example; at least not until my 8 gets damaged or worn out. There just isnt anything really compelling there. Than again what are the other leaders doing hmm Samsung is advertising a 1TB of storage in a mobile phone...Right I mean bigger is always better I guess but that does not strike me as innovative leadership.
I have little doubt there are some bold ideas being discussed deep inside Apple's doughnut^H^H^H^H^H office building. They are no doubt risky and it does not surprise me that they don't take risks while in the midst of printing money selling iPhones. When that actually slows down in terms of revenue then they will try stuff. They will have a lot of time to find something that sticks too because they have more cash than anyone can even imagine what to do with
Well personally I don't see legitimate libel or slander suits against press organizations as limiting press freedoms; at least not in the US - where proving the statement is true is a sufficient defense of either of those civil actions.
I also think the media gets a pass on using weasel words like "alleged", and "claims" etc. I am fine with it as long as they name their sources - tell me who claims or who alleges blah blah put a spy chip on the motherboards or he sexually assaulted her or whatever. We can than hold that person responsible for making defamatory statements in public. However if the media does this with anonymous sources than THEY should bear the responsibility for defamation if they can't prove it was true. They are the press its their F'ING JOB to corroborate they things they are reporting after all.
Don't forget there are a lot of situations were the cost of determining the right answer far exceeds lost opportunity of a sub optimal choice.
Example we could do an elaborate study of your blood chemistry and other bodily characteristics on any given evening and probably make a scientific determination about which item on the restaurant menu would provide you with individualize optimum nourishment. However its probably not a sensible thing to do.
we take action on nonsexual content as well, like seemingly benign photos of children in the bath"
So they did not remove 8.7 million exploitative posts they just removed 8.7 million posts and some fraction of those could be large could be small for all we know were exploitative.
Half the country has sub 200ms latency connections at 10+Mbps transfer rates to most well homed services now. In their homes. Plenty for responsive (whatever that means exactly) HD Video.
We'd see this kind of entertainment already if there was really a market for it. "On cell phone" does not some how make the nature of why we enjoy video change.
People consume entertainment video precisely because its passive. Its all about being spoon fed entertainment or information without having to work for it. Its also about shared experience; you want to be able to discuss what you saw with others. Not many really want a "choose your own adventure" movie. How do you talk about it with your buddies when each of your stories had a different ending? - You don't - its a video game at that point its a very different conversation - usually about play style etc...
5G is just more data faster. Its not some revolution; and I suspect we are going find that for the vast majority of users beyond 4G is moving into the territory of diminishing returns.
1) The Declaration of Independence is not a controlling legal document.
2) Its possible to hold the views espoused in that document (I do) without also feeling its your personal or national responsibility to secure those rights to others (I don't). Anyone fighting for those rights is justified and righteous; that does not automatically make their fight my own.
3) The Preamble of the Constitution (our actual controlling legal document) defines the reason of the rest of the document. It is import context in which the rest of the Constitution should be read. It contains the language "...secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" note that it does not say "to everyone" or "all people" its in fact quite exclusive. The reason for the United States government to exist is specifically to keep these blessing available to US citizens and their children. To go beyond that is to exceed its mandate.
They don't under international law refuges lose their status as soon as they set foot in a nation where they are safe from whatever specific force they are fleeing.
Unless you want to conceede Mexico is a failed state that cannot be accountable for protecting citizens there; than no non-mexican having passed thru Mexico can arrive at our southern boarder as a legitimate asylum seeker.
They are therefore simply illegal immigrants. When they are organized even minimally, as they are in this caravan they become invaders! Mexico allowing an invasion force to proceed thru its territory on the way to our boarder is an act of war and it should be treated like it!
people who are trying to stop nazis will never be as bad as the nazis
Are you sure - Stalinist Russia was at one point trying to stop the Nazi's those in power in that era did some pretty; dare I say equally awful things to groups like Roma, homosexuals, various Protestant sects, Polish people...
No I think its very possible to be anti-Nazi and no better than a Nazi..
The fact is there are political movements on both sides the liberal / conservative aisle in American that actively target, and encourage low information voters.
Few things make me as angry as hearing people say how important it is to exercise your right to vote! No! that is not important and it might not even be desirable. Voter turnout for its own sake is stupid. That you have the right to vote is important; your exercise of it is only important if its important to you.
If an issue is on that ballot that affects you or people you care about; yes you should go vote. If you are interested in the political topics that are likely to be decided in part by a candidate in the next term of office enough to take the time to get facts from multiple sources with different perspectives or policy agenda and develop a considered opinion - by all means your input is valuable go vote.
Don't however vote because Dady allways said go vote for all the $PARTY candidates or because some teacher said blah blah are evil! or whatever. You don't have to vote in every election on a ballot either! Seriously if you are so uninformed that seeing a friggin MEME drives your opinion do us all and probably yourself in the long run a favor and stay home!
The problem is not that some foreigners run ads its that so many Americans put less thought into casting their ballot than they do in their breakfast order. Sorry not voting does not make you a good citizen; informed voting might.
That is a fine attitude to have; if you don't have limitations. However there are A LOT of people in settings where they don't have access to data that isn't metered. I am not saying products should be tailored to our use case by any means but minimally workable solutions should be offered.
I (kinda of) agree treating local storage as "mostly free" makes sense in the PC world on phones not so much. Why does Apple think they can charge 150 extra for the 256GB model than the 64GB variety? When a high speed 128GB micro SD can be had for 30? So even storage is still pricey some places.
I bought tax cut last year (boxed). Guess what nothing in there but a download link and license key. WTF? If I wanted to download it I would have just bought it online! The only reason to by a shelfware copy is to get media so you don't have to download a Gigabyte of interface software and can instant theoretically pull a couple Megabytes worth of updated forms and rule sets from a server some place...
Ditto with a lot of this mobile stuff. My Iphone5 finally gave up. Had to buy a new. Restored my back up it. Okay brought over my pictures and stuff but hey those were already synced to photo's anyway on my Mac. The phone proceeded to re-download all of my apps? Why bother making a backup at all if it excludes 90% of the data! I won't in the future - I'll just sync my contacts and photos and to heck with the rest of it. If nothing else if I have to switch phones again at least that will let me not download the apps I never use anymore!
Then there is F'ing Windows that even with registry hacks and setting every connection metered will still download 100s of megs of updates when it feels like it; not when it makes sense for the user. So litterally after you have taken active steps to configure it to minimize data uses it basically says 'F U I am going to download whatever I want anyway."
In 2018 should the default behavior of most products be treat storage and remote network transfer as mostly unlimited resources where it makes the user experience better - probably. There should be reliable of setting limits. If that means some features can't be used alright; if it means reading thru long lists of components and deciding which are needed fine; it does not have to be easy but it should work and the choice should be there.
Which is why under powered cars and trucks should be regulated and banned from public roads. There should be minimum standards for both acceleration and breaking performance.
If it can't do 0-60 in 12secs or less it does not belong on a public road way; except as special use - eg agriculture or construction equipment and that should not be permitted on interstate highways.
See the problem with that is things like eating and having pets are joyful and fulfilling experiences. If you start making these long lists of donts and cants what is the point the point of it all?
I am not saying I'd kill myself if you forced me to give up my cat and replace all the beef in my diet with kale but I sure as heck might try to kill you!
I disagree most people eat ground beef patties without any idea how it got from cow to their burger bun. (Hint parts of the process are pretty stomach turning).
I think if made synthetic meat that was similar in taste, mouth feel, and nutrient content but first and foremost appearance to whatever meat product it was replaced - people would by and large eat whichever they could obtain at the least cost.
Obviously on the appearance front replicating ground meat products like burgers, and sausages is going to be most easily achieved.
Oh good so in other words you $30 investment in Turbo Tax means the fields are at least correctly mapped from the interview to the form; and verified by humans. Meanwhile with this a computer that does not really "understand" has done it and it might be mostly right most of the time if you are luck. Oh well you get what you pay for I guess
Slashdot Mirror
Try Slackware ARM.
I can usually ignore it for most of a year; until some remote security vuln in bind or something pops up.
I am not saying voting should be an earned right; specifically here. I do think that it perhaps could be, tied to taxation.
I am simply arguing that voting should not be encouraged for its own sake. Any citizen that wants to vote and is interested should be invited and permitted to do so.
What I don't like is this "voting is a responsibility, everyone must go to the polls" line that is always pushed. Yes voting is a responsibility and you should only do it if you are taking it seriously. If you are they type to just go vote a strait party ticket because that is what your mom or dad always did; F-you, you are part of the problem. An uniformed vote is far worse for our society than a non vote. Either dedicate some hours to each election before you go to the polls or don't go.
They are not going to turn away money at the end of the day unless they are legally required to do so.
Do think any bars would card if the force of law did not obligate them to it? I doubt many would. I am sure a little human decency would stop most from selling liquor to children; but few would turn away teens.
facebook is in the same boat here. Yes its illegal for a political campaign to take foreign money. In a lot of cases its illegal for them to coordinate efforts with foreign actors.
I have yet to see anyone point a law that specifically prevents 99% of those face book ads from being underwritten by foreign persons. The only political speech foreigners are bared from AFAICT is explicit campaign activities IE running an ad advocating voting for or against a specific candidate. They can run issues ads all day long. Its not even clear its illegal for them to suggest a candidate is a criminal, or a Nazi, or whatever if they stop short of saying "vote no.." etc.
IMHO facebook did nothing wrong - they sold ad space. The people crying about Russian interference are sore loosers. The problem is not the American electorate being exposed to facebook ads, the problem is that they are easily swayed by facebook ads. This is the inevitable result of years and years of "everyone should vote" propaganda. No! Everyone should not vote; the right of everyone to vote should be protected strongly but people who don't take the time to study politics and the issues have no damn business at the polls. Voting is right! not a responsibility. If you don't want to put the effort in there should be no shame in that but at the same time its irresponsible to weigh in at all if the totality of information behind your opinion is a facebook meme.
The correct answer is to start educating people what voting is for and what its not for. Its for allowing those who want to take the time to contribute to informed policy making access to do so; its not for choosing the "Next top President" or electing "The first XXXXXX"
The first step to protecting a future for our grand kids is to recognize there is NOT a global solution. There are probably already to many people.
Population is the one driving factor. Everything else is a rounding error. Anyone who actually cares about the environment would be in favor of basically ending immigration. Limit agricultural exports and imports.
Here in the US we are essentially at the replacement rate in terms of birth rate. Stop letting new outsiders in. Deal with the not nearly as complex economic problem of having a flat population size as compared to growth beyond sustainability or population decline.
Let the rest of the worlds population 'naturally' adjust to the local carrying capacity of those places.
the fact that the technical requirements to offer broadband to rural communities are no different from those required for urban areas.
Whaaaat?
Really please compare wiring up say the Shenandoah valley with Richmond and get back to me on how the technical requirements are no different. When you can't use line of site, when there are no buried conduit just telephone polls along side thin strips of asphalt joining small communities. It gets even harder when you push east out of the valley into the Mountains.
In a nutshell, this encapsulates the key weakness of competitive markets and capitalism - it breaks down when something we need is not economically viable to those able to provide it - without an economic incentive, why would they bother?
Some economists would actually call that allocation efficacy. See you CAN actually get broadband basically anywhere; it might cost a small fortune but you can get. In other words if there is a *need* the market can meet it now - with T-Carriers, LTE and Satellite links. The actual answer is we don't *need* rural broadband for the most part, and consumer oriented mobile services are "good enough." There are pluses and minuses to living in the countyside - one of the negatives is you don't enjoy the connectivity those closer in do. Disclosure I am one of those folks out in the sticks who would stand to gain from rural broadband programs; and I STILL don't think its fair ask folks in the city to subsidize my habits.
Also by the way neither of your porposals can work because they cross political boundaries; that would require them to be implemented at the state level. If you think for a hot second any of the municipal and county governments are going to let State government come in and start telling them how they are going to do rights-of-way etc you have never been anywhere near a County Board Member or a meeting.
Every adjustment made since inception has tried to minimize the burden on industry, just like Ajit Shithead prefers.
Yes except the main stream media and the politicians are not really talking about rural broadband much. Its not major issue. If Ajit is really just the industry plant you seem to think he is; well he could easily as head of the FCC just choose not to talk about it either. Here is a crazy thought - maybe because someone differs with you on their views related to net neutrality; which it self is tied up in big untestable economic theory, it does not automatically have to mark them as evil or your sworn enemy. Just a thought, shithead
No I am not saying they have to name their anonymous sources. I am saying they either take responsibility for the information being factual or don't report it. Named sources are responsible for their statements antonymous sources; are not news worthy unless the can be corroborated.
An anonymous source says such and such and da da duh happened -> NOT NEWS
This reporter learned from an anonymous source that blah blah may have happened, after investigating the matter $NEWSORG found the following evidence to support the claim -> NEWS
the thing with apple is you have to "Get with the program"
USB-C is really nice if you embrace it. I have literally one lead I connect to my laptop when I return to my desk. Off that I get power, my other two monitors, a bunch of USB accessories, including my keyboard and mouse.
When I work with other people three of us can daisy chain our laptops on a conference table off a single power brick so we don't have to have a pile of power strips and bulky bricks all over the place.
Yes I miss magsafe a little.
As far as dongles go boo-hoo I have to carry C -> A adapter smaller than a quarter in case someone hands me a thumb drive. Nobody uses wired Ethernet anywhere on their laptop anymore other than their own desk. There is almost no reason to want with N speeds. Air-drop is waaaaay easier for moving stuff between machines and phones than thumbdrives ever were. Really stop with the USB sticks they are obsolete as floppy disks were in 1998; when we all said apple was wrong to get rid of those. Apple was right! in retrospect; they are right this time to to dumb the legacy USB stuff.
How about iphone USB cables that one cannot use on MacBooks?
Yes admitted that is an issue. Why they don't have a separate sku that comes with a USB type C cable is mind boggling.
I am typing this on a MacBook Pro, and I use and iPhone 8.
What experience is sub par? Sure apple steers me towards their mail and photo apps but you certainly can install alternatives if you want to. Having evaluated other leading platforms before making my last round of purchases; I don't find the experience sub par.
I think its different; but certainly not worse. Personally I like it better; which is why I chose them. That said I think you can have as a good an experience on a higher end Android device; and certainly a surface is a nice laptop/tablet. My MacBook starts up faster though and does the things I need it to do; and OSX stays out of my way a lot better than Windows does; but comparatively speaking Windows and the Surface offer more 'features'.
As far as lock in goes - pulzee tell anyone who has been in the Android eco-system for a few years to just switch to something else, just like the iOS user they won't like it much. They will have apps they are attached to; work flows they are accustom too etc. Neither platform really 'locks' you in; its not like the days of old where you cant get your data out in a format others can read.
Now I think there is case to be made that Apple has 'slowed' some on the innovation front. I can't see why I need an iPhone X for example; at least not until my 8 gets damaged or worn out. There just isnt anything really compelling there. Than again what are the other leaders doing hmm Samsung is advertising a 1TB of storage in a mobile phone...Right I mean bigger is always better I guess but that does not strike me as innovative leadership.
I have little doubt there are some bold ideas being discussed deep inside Apple's doughnut^H^H^H^H^H office building. They are no doubt risky and it does not surprise me that they don't take risks while in the midst of printing money selling iPhones. When that actually slows down in terms of revenue then they will try stuff. They will have a lot of time to find something that sticks too because they have more cash than anyone can even imagine what to do with
Well personally I don't see legitimate libel or slander suits against press organizations as limiting press freedoms; at least not in the US - where proving the statement is true is a sufficient defense of either of those civil actions.
I also think the media gets a pass on using weasel words like "alleged", and "claims" etc. I am fine with it as long as they name their sources - tell me who claims or who alleges blah blah put a spy chip on the motherboards or he sexually assaulted her or whatever. We can than hold that person responsible for making defamatory statements in public. However if the media does this with anonymous sources than THEY should bear the responsibility for defamation if they can't prove it was true. They are the press its their F'ING JOB to corroborate they things they are reporting after all.
Don't forget there are a lot of situations were the cost of determining the right answer far exceeds lost opportunity of a sub optimal choice.
Example we could do an elaborate study of your blood chemistry and other bodily characteristics on any given evening and probably make a scientific determination about which item on the restaurant menu would provide you with individualize optimum nourishment. However its probably not a sensible thing to do.
we take action on nonsexual content as well, like seemingly benign photos of children in the bath"
So they did not remove 8.7 million exploitative posts they just removed 8.7 million posts and some fraction of those could be large could be small for all we know were exploitative.
Half the country has sub 200ms latency connections at 10+Mbps transfer rates to most well homed services now. In their homes. Plenty for responsive (whatever that means exactly) HD Video.
We'd see this kind of entertainment already if there was really a market for it. "On cell phone" does not some how make the nature of why we enjoy video change.
People consume entertainment video precisely because its passive. Its all about being spoon fed entertainment or information without having to work for it. Its also about shared experience; you want to be able to discuss what you saw with others. Not many really want a "choose your own adventure" movie. How do you talk about it with your buddies when each of your stories had a different ending? - You don't - its a video game at that point its a very different conversation - usually about play style etc...
5G is just more data faster. Its not some revolution; and I suspect we are going find that for the vast majority of users beyond 4G is moving into the territory of diminishing returns.
1) The Declaration of Independence is not a controlling legal document.
2) Its possible to hold the views espoused in that document (I do) without also feeling its your personal or national responsibility to secure those rights to others (I don't). Anyone fighting for those rights is justified and righteous; that does not automatically make their fight my own.
3) The Preamble of the Constitution (our actual controlling legal document) defines the reason of the rest of the document. It is import context in which the rest of the Constitution should be read. It contains the language "...secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" note that it does not say "to everyone" or "all people" its in fact quite exclusive. The reason for the United States government to exist is specifically to keep these blessing available to US citizens and their children. To go beyond that is to exceed its mandate.
They don't under international law refuges lose their status as soon as they set foot in a nation where they are safe from whatever specific force they are fleeing.
Unless you want to conceede Mexico is a failed state that cannot be accountable for protecting citizens there; than no non-mexican having passed thru Mexico can arrive at our southern boarder as a legitimate asylum seeker.
They are therefore simply illegal immigrants. When they are organized even minimally, as they are in this caravan they become invaders! Mexico allowing an invasion force to proceed thru its territory on the way to our boarder is an act of war and it should be treated like it!
Better fix - pull the phone records and charge every a-hole who crack called them with obstruction of justice.
A few decent jail terms in the news will get people to knock it off.
people who are trying to stop nazis will never be as bad as the nazis
Are you sure - Stalinist Russia was at one point trying to stop the Nazi's those in power in that era did some pretty; dare I say equally awful things to groups like Roma, homosexuals, various Protestant sects, Polish people...
No I think its very possible to be anti-Nazi and no better than a Nazi..
The fact is there are political movements on both sides the liberal / conservative aisle in American that actively target, and encourage low information voters.
Few things make me as angry as hearing people say how important it is to exercise your right to vote! No! that is not important and it might not even be desirable. Voter turnout for its own sake is stupid. That you have the right to vote is important; your exercise of it is only important if its important to you.
If an issue is on that ballot that affects you or people you care about; yes you should go vote. If you are interested in the political topics that are likely to be decided in part by a candidate in the next term of office enough to take the time to get facts from multiple sources with different perspectives or policy agenda and develop a considered opinion - by all means your input is valuable go vote.
Don't however vote because Dady allways said go vote for all the $PARTY candidates or because some teacher said blah blah are evil! or whatever. You don't have to vote in every election on a ballot either! Seriously if you are so uninformed that seeing a friggin MEME drives your opinion do us all and probably yourself in the long run a favor and stay home!
The problem is not that some foreigners run ads its that so many Americans put less thought into casting their ballot than they do in their breakfast order. Sorry not voting does not make you a good citizen; informed voting might.
That is a fine attitude to have; if you don't have limitations. However there are A LOT of people in settings where they don't have access to data that isn't metered. I am not saying products should be tailored to our use case by any means but minimally workable solutions should be offered.
I (kinda of) agree treating local storage as "mostly free" makes sense in the PC world on phones not so much. Why does Apple think they can charge 150 extra for the 256GB model than the 64GB variety? When a high speed 128GB micro SD can be had for 30? So even storage is still pricey some places.
I bought tax cut last year (boxed). Guess what nothing in there but a download link and license key. WTF? If I wanted to download it I would have just bought it online! The only reason to by a shelfware copy is to get media so you don't have to download a Gigabyte of interface software and can instant theoretically pull a couple Megabytes worth of updated forms and rule sets from a server some place...
Ditto with a lot of this mobile stuff. My Iphone5 finally gave up. Had to buy a new. Restored my back up it. Okay brought over my pictures and stuff but hey those were already synced to photo's anyway on my Mac. The phone proceeded to re-download all of my apps? Why bother making a backup at all if it excludes 90% of the data! I won't in the future - I'll just sync my contacts and photos and to heck with the rest of it. If nothing else if I have to switch phones again at least that will let me not download the apps I never use anymore!
Then there is F'ing Windows that even with registry hacks and setting every connection metered will still download 100s of megs of updates when it feels like it; not when it makes sense for the user. So litterally after you have taken active steps to configure it to minimize data uses it basically says 'F U I am going to download whatever I want anyway."
In 2018 should the default behavior of most products be treat storage and remote network transfer as mostly unlimited resources where it makes the user experience better - probably. There should be reliable of setting limits. If that means some features can't be used alright; if it means reading thru long lists of components and deciding which are needed fine; it does not have to be easy but it should work and the choice should be there.
Which is why under powered cars and trucks should be regulated and banned from public roads. There should be minimum standards for both acceleration and breaking performance.
If it can't do 0-60 in 12secs or less it does not belong on a public road way; except as special use - eg agriculture or construction equipment and that should not be permitted on interstate highways.
dont have pets ...
dont eat to much
dont
See the problem with that is things like eating and having pets are joyful and fulfilling experiences. If you start making these long lists of donts and cants what is the point the point of it all?
I am not saying I'd kill myself if you forced me to give up my cat and replace all the beef in my diet with kale but I sure as heck might try to kill you!
I disagree most people eat ground beef patties without any idea how it got from cow to their burger bun. (Hint parts of the process are pretty stomach turning).
I think if made synthetic meat that was similar in taste, mouth feel, and nutrient content but first and foremost appearance to whatever meat product it was replaced - people would by and large eat whichever they could obtain at the least cost.
Obviously on the appearance front replicating ground meat products like burgers, and sausages is going to be most easily achieved.
Oh good so in other words you $30 investment in Turbo Tax means the fields are at least correctly mapped from the interview to the form; and verified by humans. Meanwhile with this a computer that does not really "understand" has done it and it might be mostly right most of the time if you are luck. Oh well you get what you pay for I guess
So its basically TruboTax for small claims cases. 1993 called and they'd like their definition of amazing back.