Yeah, because all of the Trump quotes, in no way, are hyperbole or outrageous. Certainly not "Instead of registering our guns, how about we register Muslims?" which is an oh-so-subtle reference to Nuremberg laws.
The whole thing is satire that is meant to make the entire election look ridiculous, which it is.
Get out of my head! I've been fretting about this since I voted for Kasich in the Ohio Primary. I knew it was unlikely that he could get the nomination, but I don't think I can even hold my nose and vote for either Trump or Clinton - it's a choice between a Dorito-tinted proto-fascist and a thoroughly untrustworthy carpet-bagging flip-flopper.
Maybe the Democrats in the remaining primaries will overwhelmingly vote for Sanders and spare us all?
Trump has had just over 10M votes cast for him so far, which doesn't even match up with what GWB got in the 2000 primary. He's had 15M votes cast against him so far.
He won because the opposition never coalesced behind a particular anti-Trump candidate, until far too late.
Sure, total vote tally isn't the measure for getting the nomination - delegate count per state is. And total vote tally isn't the measure for winning the general either, vote tally per State is, as filtered through the Electoral College. But it doesn't bode well for him - he's going to have to find a way to roll back a lot of nasty things he's said before November unless he wants a big chunk of those 15M people to stay home.
Not quite an overtaking, but the Worldwar series by Harry Turtledove comes close in the last book - Humans go to the homeworld of "The Race" on a diplomatic mission in cryogenic freeze which takes a decade or two, and six months or so after they arrive, an FTL ship arrives from Earth startling the hell out of everyone.
... and they are still a solution in search of a problem. I don't care how many iterations of a useless device there has been - it's still a useless device.
Even when Jobs was running the shop, the vast majority of what Apple did was "Lots of iterations." from 1999 to his death, they came up with the iPod which wasn't conceptually different from anything already on the market, and a pretty neat phone. Even the iPad is just a big version of the iPhone without cellular voice.
And let's not forget that Jobs had a nice string of failures too - his near obsession with cubic computers being a prime example. Jobs looked so good because the rest of the industry was complete shit at the time. None of Apple's competition had any stylistic sense, and thought that the spec sheet would save them, and they were flat wrong. That dynamic has changed now (a lot of that change owing to Jobs & co.)
Don't worry - I'm big on calling out anyone who purposefully lies for no better reason than self-aggrandizement. If the lie is meant to protect ongoing military operations or something, that's called 'counter-intelligence'; lying just to get a better gig, lying to advance your partisan bullshit, or lying keep the gig you've already got disqualifies you from holding office, in my mind.
And I don't make this distinction just for Hillary, or even just for Democrats. Betray the public trust, and you should be shown the door.
The last thing Cruz is, is an establishment pet. The establishment hates this guy because he fucks them over at every turn. And I don't say that as a good thing - this is the guy who led the charge to shut down the government for absolutely no reason, and with absolutely no effect other than giving thousands of federal employees a paid vacation. Obamacare still stands, the CR was passed with the exact terms and figures from before the shutdown. The debt limit has effectively been nullified. It was a complete failure of policy and grandstanding, and empowered the executive to do many of the things that he now cries about, because the Congress's "power of the purse" was shown to be a fucking joke, and they basically gave it up in the aftermath of tripping on their own dicks.
Cruz is a blowhard, an underhanded schemer who will say or do anything to get elected. But an establishment lackey? No.
HP servers at the time were shit, and everyone knew it. If you were serious about buying servers with maintenance, you bought IBM or you bought Compaq. HP could have either shuttered their enterprise business completely, or did what they did. Either way, there was going to be layoffs of people making shitty servers.
I have no idea why people paint dislike of Hillary as automatically sexist. I have no problem with her being a woman. I do have a problem with a leading candidate for President being a habitual liar, a follower of the poll of the week rather than a leader who joins the debate in order to sway public opinion, and someone with a long history of patronage and hypocrisy.
I'm not so worried about playing vinyl on a PC, as I am about having to buy headphones that won't work with anything else I already have. Why is Intel and Apple forcing me to buy headphones that I can't plug into anything else? Or, am I supposed to buy fictional gear that doesn't exist to replace perfectly working stuff?
And don't forget that the headphones you are using are absolutely useless for things that DON'T provide whatever digital signal they're looking for. Want to use your spiffy new headphones with that really nice tube amplifier and vinyl turntable? Too fucking bad. Want to use your high-impedance headphones from that tube amp setup with your laptop? Too fucking bad - nobody makes high-impedance adapters for this new standard.
Looks like you get to use two sets of expensive headphones where one was fine before.
So very much this - I can't tell you how many times I've run a headphone cable over with an office chair.
If I had to buy a new $20 cable every time, I'd be pissed.
Also: this is all fine and dandy for people using headphones, but what about people that plug actual audio gear into their PC / Laptop, such as an amplifier? Instead of line out, we're now using some shit adapter that adds noise or ground loop hum due to not being built right in order to get the same connectivity, should the device not have TOSLINK or S/PDIF on it, which would be the first things to go in a world where even 3.5mm doesn't exist.
It slightly makes sense to come up with something to replace the 3.5mm TRS for a phone because of volume constraints (though it's still a bad idea), but when you have the volume of a PC or laptop, it's just anti-customer garbage.
You have a PS/2 keyboard? How Modern! I'm still using an IBM 5-pin AT keyboard, because it's far more reliable than that shitty DIN-4 connector. I mean, how many times can you unplug and replug that PS/2 keyboard before it's destroyed? 10k? 15k? What a joke.
I forgot the part where Britain, France, Holland, Italy, Denmark, and (West) Germany didn't have the shit bombed out of them in World War II, and had absolutely nobody die from 1939 to 1945.
Strangely, they rebuilt and flourished where the countries behind the Iron Curtain didn't. Curious, isn't it?
You're talking in absolutes about a study performed of hundreds, if not thousands, of people.
This poll / study would be far more interesting if they called back every single participant in 10 years and asked them the exact same questions. I have no doubt in my mind that once people get a little farther down the road of life, gather some actual experience on how the world works instead of the bullshit spoon-fed to them by whoever, that the results would be wildly different. Yes, there will still be some people that "reject capitalism" but I guarantee the field shifts.
Exactly. The headline might as well read "Uninformed, inexperienced and underemployed people at the beginning of their careers don't support current ecopolitical system, because they are unable to look ahead 10 years."
Yeah, they can open the mail, but if the message inside is encrypted with a one-time pad (as I mentioned) they're still fucked and unable to decrypt it.
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Yeah, that's because Indiana is like 80% Republican.
Yeah, because all of the Trump quotes, in no way, are hyperbole or outrageous. Certainly not "Instead of registering our guns, how about we register Muslims?" which is an oh-so-subtle reference to Nuremberg laws.
The whole thing is satire that is meant to make the entire election look ridiculous, which it is.
Get out of my head! I've been fretting about this since I voted for Kasich in the Ohio Primary. I knew it was unlikely that he could get the nomination, but I don't think I can even hold my nose and vote for either Trump or Clinton - it's a choice between a Dorito-tinted proto-fascist and a thoroughly untrustworthy carpet-bagging flip-flopper.
Maybe the Democrats in the remaining primaries will overwhelmingly vote for Sanders and spare us all?
Trump has had just over 10M votes cast for him so far, which doesn't even match up with what GWB got in the 2000 primary. He's had 15M votes cast against him so far.
He won because the opposition never coalesced behind a particular anti-Trump candidate, until far too late.
Look at this graph
Sure, total vote tally isn't the measure for getting the nomination - delegate count per state is. And total vote tally isn't the measure for winning the general either, vote tally per State is, as filtered through the Electoral College. But it doesn't bode well for him - he's going to have to find a way to roll back a lot of nasty things he's said before November unless he wants a big chunk of those 15M people to stay home.
Not quite an overtaking, but the Worldwar series by Harry Turtledove comes close in the last book - Humans go to the homeworld of "The Race" on a diplomatic mission in cryogenic freeze which takes a decade or two, and six months or so after they arrive, an FTL ship arrives from Earth startling the hell out of everyone.
... and they are still a solution in search of a problem. I don't care how many iterations of a useless device there has been - it's still a useless device.
Even when Jobs was running the shop, the vast majority of what Apple did was "Lots of iterations." from 1999 to his death, they came up with the iPod which wasn't conceptually different from anything already on the market, and a pretty neat phone. Even the iPad is just a big version of the iPhone without cellular voice.
And let's not forget that Jobs had a nice string of failures too - his near obsession with cubic computers being a prime example. Jobs looked so good because the rest of the industry was complete shit at the time. None of Apple's competition had any stylistic sense, and thought that the spec sheet would save them, and they were flat wrong. That dynamic has changed now (a lot of that change owing to Jobs & co.)
Don't worry - I'm big on calling out anyone who purposefully lies for no better reason than self-aggrandizement. If the lie is meant to protect ongoing military operations or something, that's called 'counter-intelligence'; lying just to get a better gig, lying to advance your partisan bullshit, or lying keep the gig you've already got disqualifies you from holding office, in my mind.
And I don't make this distinction just for Hillary, or even just for Democrats. Betray the public trust, and you should be shown the door.
If we roll back the party nominating process, we go back to the smoky room where 'party elders' just pick a guy. Is that really better?
The last thing Cruz is, is an establishment pet. The establishment hates this guy because he fucks them over at every turn. And I don't say that as a good thing - this is the guy who led the charge to shut down the government for absolutely no reason, and with absolutely no effect other than giving thousands of federal employees a paid vacation. Obamacare still stands, the CR was passed with the exact terms and figures from before the shutdown. The debt limit has effectively been nullified. It was a complete failure of policy and grandstanding, and empowered the executive to do many of the things that he now cries about, because the Congress's "power of the purse" was shown to be a fucking joke, and they basically gave it up in the aftermath of tripping on their own dicks.
Cruz is a blowhard, an underhanded schemer who will say or do anything to get elected. But an establishment lackey? No.
You could have just said:
So you can't trust Trump on $TOPIC either. He'll say whatever it takes to win the election.
It works for everything.
Not only is it ratings gold, but a nice long floor fight where Republicans are eating their young is a wet dream of every news editor in the business.
HP servers at the time were shit, and everyone knew it. If you were serious about buying servers with maintenance, you bought IBM or you bought Compaq. HP could have either shuttered their enterprise business completely, or did what they did. Either way, there was going to be layoffs of people making shitty servers.
I have no idea why people paint dislike of Hillary as automatically sexist. I have no problem with her being a woman. I do have a problem with a leading candidate for President being a habitual liar, a follower of the poll of the week rather than a leader who joins the debate in order to sway public opinion, and someone with a long history of patronage and hypocrisy.
None of that has jack shit to do with gender.
I'm not so worried about playing vinyl on a PC, as I am about having to buy headphones that won't work with anything else I already have. Why is Intel and Apple forcing me to buy headphones that I can't plug into anything else? Or, am I supposed to buy fictional gear that doesn't exist to replace perfectly working stuff?
And don't forget that the headphones you are using are absolutely useless for things that DON'T provide whatever digital signal they're looking for. Want to use your spiffy new headphones with that really nice tube amplifier and vinyl turntable? Too fucking bad. Want to use your high-impedance headphones from that tube amp setup with your laptop? Too fucking bad - nobody makes high-impedance adapters for this new standard.
Looks like you get to use two sets of expensive headphones where one was fine before.
That's because it's a dictation over a digital audio device, and it cut out for a bit there.
So very much this - I can't tell you how many times I've run a headphone cable over with an office chair.
If I had to buy a new $20 cable every time, I'd be pissed.
Also: this is all fine and dandy for people using headphones, but what about people that plug actual audio gear into their PC / Laptop, such as an amplifier? Instead of line out, we're now using some shit adapter that adds noise or ground loop hum due to not being built right in order to get the same connectivity, should the device not have TOSLINK or S/PDIF on it, which would be the first things to go in a world where even 3.5mm doesn't exist.
It slightly makes sense to come up with something to replace the 3.5mm TRS for a phone because of volume constraints (though it's still a bad idea), but when you have the volume of a PC or laptop, it's just anti-customer garbage.
You have a PS/2 keyboard? How Modern! I'm still using an IBM 5-pin AT keyboard, because it's far more reliable than that shitty DIN-4 connector. I mean, how many times can you unplug and replug that PS/2 keyboard before it's destroyed? 10k? 15k? What a joke.
I forgot the part where Britain, France, Holland, Italy, Denmark, and (West) Germany didn't have the shit bombed out of them in World War II, and had absolutely nobody die from 1939 to 1945.
Strangely, they rebuilt and flourished where the countries behind the Iron Curtain didn't. Curious, isn't it?
You're talking in absolutes about a study performed of hundreds, if not thousands, of people.
This poll / study would be far more interesting if they called back every single participant in 10 years and asked them the exact same questions. I have no doubt in my mind that once people get a little farther down the road of life, gather some actual experience on how the world works instead of the bullshit spoon-fed to them by whoever, that the results would be wildly different. Yes, there will still be some people that "reject capitalism" but I guarantee the field shifts.
Exactly. The headline might as well read "Uninformed, inexperienced and underemployed people at the beginning of their careers don't support current ecopolitical system, because they are unable to look ahead 10 years."
Yeah, they can open the mail, but if the message inside is encrypted with a one-time pad (as I mentioned) they're still fucked and unable to decrypt it.
I ask again, why is it different if it's digital?
Don't forget all the "iPod killers" that came and went, with the ultimate iPod killer being the iPhone.
Why is this on Slashdot, other than clickbaiting?