Yeah, looks like quite the compromise, as it had all of a 1 vote margin of victory in the House, and exactly the votes needed in the senate to end debate. Just so you know, the hallmark of a compromise bill, is that both parties have at least one person vote for it.
Yes, we want to bring broadband to all Americans... so my ex-clients can gouge the shit out of them with rent-seeking behavior, unneeded service caps and fees, and charging content providers that aren't directly owned by the ISP access fees after we shitcan Net Neutrality!
What's funny, is that my Apple Cinema Display does this as well, connected through a DisplayPort switch into a PC. The PC seems unable to wake the display randomly, and I fix it by plugging it into a Mac. Then I switch it back to the PC and all is well.
So yes, there was the "Authorized Use of Military Force" - the Iraq vote that hung around Hillary's neck, but no formal declaration of war from the Congress.
Remember when we actually declared war before invading sovereign countries? That was great...
They might not directly make much money from Mac, but they indirectly make shitloads of money from Mac, because Mac is the development environment for the iOS App Store.
Keeping macOS a going affair is a big piece of their product portfolio, unless they do a shit ton of work to port Xcode somewhere else.
I had a 2009 Mac Pro that I hacked into being a 2010 Mac Pro with CPU upgrades and a firmware swap. Was waiting for a new one, stopped waiting last year and built an X99-based PC for far less than you would pay for a Mac Pro, and it has far better hardware in it. No, it may not be as small as the trash can, but I don't care about that - I have a corner desk where it sits nicely behind the three 27" displays where nobody can see it anyway.
Only thing I'm missing is macOS, but they've kind of been screwing that up lately too, so it may be Ubuntu from here out.
Citation needed about creative pros moving, or citation needed about Apple not having pro hardware any more? The second is far easier - just look at their offerings. Razer makes a better MacBook Pro in every measurable way than Apple, for cheaper; the only thing it can't (legally) do is actually run macOS.
Definitely earlier - they started doing this in the PowerBook G4 days when they first introduced the backlit keyboard. They had a light sensor under the speaker grilles.
That's the great thing about representative government - you do have the possibility to question him through your duly elected Congressional delegation. And, as it turns out, the Congress has the ability to put the President's balls in a fiscal vise should he start doing things that the nation doesn't like.
If you think that Bush was the worst President we ever had, you haven't bothered with history much.
Here's a few that were worse than Bush: James Buchanon - basically caused the Civil War through bungled policy and negotiation that angered both the North and the secessionists. Andrew Johnson - Impeached by the House, acquitted by the Senate; opposed US citizenship for freed slaves after the Civil War Franklin Pierce - signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, upheld the Fugitive Slave Act, Andrew Jackson - supported the western expansion of slavery, conducted forced relocation (read: genocide) of native american tribes living east of the Mississippi, Censured by the US Senate.
Bush wasn't even the first one to start a war without the backing of Congress - James Polk did that with Mexico when Mexico wouldn't sell disputed lands in Texas, which earned him a censure from the House of Representatives.
Bush is probably in the bottom 10, but not the worst.
Yeah, god forbid they allow us to watch their content while not being on a network. Like, for example, if you are on an airplane.
The 'no DRM or GTFO' stance you are advocating is just stupid. This is progress, and I've already used it and been happy with it. Would I be happier with no DRM? Sure. But that's just not a reasonable stance to take at this time.
Then you either need to kick your energy supplier in the balls, or find some rooftop solar companies that aren't gouging the fuck out of you.
This almost year-old article quotes the price of 12.2 cents per kilowatt-hour installed for rooftop solar. Prices have only come down from there, and continue to fall. Is that parity with your incumbent coal price? No, but the delta isn't anywhere close to what you claim unless the local companies are doing a number on you.
The problem with that, is that oil is a global commodity. We've already seen it: OPEC increases production to dive the price per barrel, and the oil boom in the Dakotas stops booming, because those wells are too expensive to operate at the commodity price.
In order to "break from middle eastern oil supplies" by way of local oil production, OPEC will either have to run out of oil so that they can't influence the global market any more, or you would have to ban the trading of futures contracts on oil. Neither will happen.
The proper way to diminish the global influence of OPEC is to stop using oil altogether by shifting to renewable energy generation and electric vehicles. What do you think happens to OPEC's influence when 70% of the US's oil consumption goes away?
Another reminder: IBM has been going down the shitter for over a decade now. Is anyone really that surprised that a once mighty company that divested all of it's actual products probably doesn't need all those people any more?
People hired IBM consulting in the old days because they also had IBM hardware. Now there isn't any IBM hardware to speak of, so why the fuck would you hire them as consultants? I know I wouldn't hire IBM to consult on someone else's Linux distribution, or someone else's servers.
I guess they can still rack up some billing on AS/400, AIX, and OS/390, but those customers are few and far between.
Why pay more if you don't have to? If Pennsylvania wants the factory in Pennsylvania rather than Costa Rica, then Pennsylvania better figure out how to be cheaper than Costa Rica.
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A compromise with the GOP? That's why a grand total of ZERO Republicans voted in favor, and there were no votes from Democrats as well? Just to refresh your memory, here's the vote tally in the house and here's the tally from the Senate.
Yeah, looks like quite the compromise, as it had all of a 1 vote margin of victory in the House, and exactly the votes needed in the senate to end debate. Just so you know, the hallmark of a compromise bill, is that both parties have at least one person vote for it.
Yes, we want to bring broadband to all Americans... so my ex-clients can gouge the shit out of them with rent-seeking behavior, unneeded service caps and fees, and charging content providers that aren't directly owned by the ISP access fees after we shitcan Net Neutrality!
What's funny, is that my Apple Cinema Display does this as well, connected through a DisplayPort switch into a PC. The PC seems unable to wake the display randomly, and I fix it by plugging it into a Mac. Then I switch it back to the PC and all is well.
I figured it's a problem with the switch thingy.
So yes, there was the "Authorized Use of Military Force" - the Iraq vote that hung around Hillary's neck, but no formal declaration of war from the Congress.
Remember when we actually declared war before invading sovereign countries? That was great...
For what it's worth, it was a quote from Bloomberg, which is a financial publication.
The intended audience probably got along with the abbreviation and term just fine.
They might not directly make much money from Mac, but they indirectly make shitloads of money from Mac, because Mac is the development environment for the iOS App Store.
Keeping macOS a going affair is a big piece of their product portfolio, unless they do a shit ton of work to port Xcode somewhere else.
I had a 2009 Mac Pro that I hacked into being a 2010 Mac Pro with CPU upgrades and a firmware swap. Was waiting for a new one, stopped waiting last year and built an X99-based PC for far less than you would pay for a Mac Pro, and it has far better hardware in it. No, it may not be as small as the trash can, but I don't care about that - I have a corner desk where it sits nicely behind the three 27" displays where nobody can see it anyway.
Only thing I'm missing is macOS, but they've kind of been screwing that up lately too, so it may be Ubuntu from here out.
Citation needed about creative pros moving, or citation needed about Apple not having pro hardware any more? The second is far easier - just look at their offerings. Razer makes a better MacBook Pro in every measurable way than Apple, for cheaper; the only thing it can't (legally) do is actually run macOS.
Definitely earlier - they started doing this in the PowerBook G4 days when they first introduced the backlit keyboard. They had a light sensor under the speaker grilles.
The Compaq iPaq PocketPC from 2000 had this same idea, except the "jackets" were at least hot swappable because they were effectively PCMCIA.
What's old is new again, except with a worse implementation, I guess.
And how long did it take for the RIAA to see that DRM was unnecessary, allowing you to play those iTunes downloads DRM-free? 8 years?
If you can't see that this is the first step towards that, then you just aren't remembering recent history. These things happen a little at a time.
That's the great thing about representative government - you do have the possibility to question him through your duly elected Congressional delegation. And, as it turns out, the Congress has the ability to put the President's balls in a fiscal vise should he start doing things that the nation doesn't like.
If you think that Bush was the worst President we ever had, you haven't bothered with history much.
Here's a few that were worse than Bush:
James Buchanon - basically caused the Civil War through bungled policy and negotiation that angered both the North and the secessionists.
Andrew Johnson - Impeached by the House, acquitted by the Senate; opposed US citizenship for freed slaves after the Civil War
Franklin Pierce - signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, upheld the Fugitive Slave Act,
Andrew Jackson - supported the western expansion of slavery, conducted forced relocation (read: genocide) of native american tribes living east of the Mississippi, Censured by the US Senate.
Bush wasn't even the first one to start a war without the backing of Congress - James Polk did that with Mexico when Mexico wouldn't sell disputed lands in Texas, which earned him a censure from the House of Representatives.
Bush is probably in the bottom 10, but not the worst.
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Nope, no help for you there either.
Yeah, god forbid they allow us to watch their content while not being on a network. Like, for example, if you are on an airplane.
The 'no DRM or GTFO' stance you are advocating is just stupid. This is progress, and I've already used it and been happy with it. Would I be happier with no DRM? Sure. But that's just not a reasonable stance to take at this time.
Don't like it? Don't fucking use it.
Then you either need to kick your energy supplier in the balls, or find some rooftop solar companies that aren't gouging the fuck out of you.
This almost year-old article quotes the price of 12.2 cents per kilowatt-hour installed for rooftop solar. Prices have only come down from there, and continue to fall. Is that parity with your incumbent coal price? No, but the delta isn't anywhere close to what you claim unless the local companies are doing a number on you.
Point of information: Trump being crooked doesn't magically make Hillary not crooked.
Not that it matters - she lost.
The problem with that, is that oil is a global commodity. We've already seen it: OPEC increases production to dive the price per barrel, and the oil boom in the Dakotas stops booming, because those wells are too expensive to operate at the commodity price.
In order to "break from middle eastern oil supplies" by way of local oil production, OPEC will either have to run out of oil so that they can't influence the global market any more, or you would have to ban the trading of futures contracts on oil. Neither will happen.
The proper way to diminish the global influence of OPEC is to stop using oil altogether by shifting to renewable energy generation and electric vehicles. What do you think happens to OPEC's influence when 70% of the US's oil consumption goes away?
So one massive waste of money on cronyism is ok, because it's smaller than a far far bigger waste of money triggered by the other political tribe.
Got it.
Do you even read what you write?
Another reminder: IBM has been going down the shitter for over a decade now. Is anyone really that surprised that a once mighty company that divested all of it's actual products probably doesn't need all those people any more?
People hired IBM consulting in the old days because they also had IBM hardware. Now there isn't any IBM hardware to speak of, so why the fuck would you hire them as consultants? I know I wouldn't hire IBM to consult on someone else's Linux distribution, or someone else's servers.
I guess they can still rack up some billing on AS/400, AIX, and OS/390, but those customers are few and far between.
You've got a low enough ID so this is probably part of your joke, but there's lots of others around here that won't follow:
COM1 and COM3 both shared IRQ4.
Using a local SIM card is only an option if you don't have a carrier locked phone, which AT&T doesn't exactly distribute.
Buy a phone with a subsidy, get fucked when traveling internationally.
Some countries, even in the developed world, don't have prevalent free wifi. See: Japan.
Why pay more if you don't have to? If Pennsylvania wants the factory in Pennsylvania rather than Costa Rica, then Pennsylvania better figure out how to be cheaper than Costa Rica.
It really is that simple.
Who puts fender flares on a Bronco?