A lot of people forget that there isn't a lot Trump can do without the Congress playing along. And while his nonsense might play in the House, he's still down a few votes for cloture motions in the Senate. There are ways to work around that in the budgetary process through reconciliation, but it has a whole new set of rules around that.
The Congress is going to put the brakes on a lot of shit he wants to do, and even thinks he can do. The White House Counsel's office is going to have a busy four years.
The ultimate outcome of this might be interesting if it doesn't result in the total destruction of the Republic, as some are predicting. This Presidency may end up shifting power away from the strong executive back to the Congress where it should be. Or, it may end up with the VP having more of a role than having a pulse and breaking ties in the Senate.
What we do know, is that because the Congress is already controlled by the GOP, there won't be any hasty lame-duck sessions to ram anything through before Obama turns the lights out, like past Presidents have done going all the way back to before Thomas Jefferson was elected.
If I'm supposed to vote for the issues, why are third party candidates disqualified all of a sudden? I was unaware that we all had to fit into the political straight jacket of conformity with either the RNC or the DNC.
Congratulations on being part of the problem. But, more sincerely, congratulations on realizing it, and deciding not to be a tool of a political party again.
Because of this "tactic" we now have global uncertainty, and a potential for amazing upheaval not seen in decades.
Memo to the DNC: Sometimes you reap what you sew. Enjoy taking a back seat to the incoming shit show because you decided to be cute and chase the moderate Republicans that you can actually work with out during the primaries.
You do know there are other jobs in IT besides being a help desk phoneslap, right? I know this might be a shock for you, but not every business can run on Quickbooks. Sometimes a company will have a very complex billing structure, based around many factors that make it unique to that business, requiring custom software development in order to make it work. This software isn't written by "IT help desk flunkies" but by real software engineers, working in IT.
People who build data centers, and networks are in IT. People who keep servers running, secure, and performing as best as they can to deliver the information and services that the business needs are in IT.
The help desk job used to be the foot in the door - something you do that helps hone troubleshooting skills and gets people familiar with systems and how they operate, and how they can fail, and what to do about it. But there's other people that put those systems together to begin with - people who looked at systems from different vendors and providers, tested them and discussed the merits of each, and then chose and implemented them. Or, even built and coded the thing from the bare metal on up. All of that is IT's job, and it didn't just magically genesis itself.
Sure, you can say that some of that could be done on contract, or outsourced as well - but the results are usually far poorer than the often terrible results of even outsourcing the help desk.
I doubt there are direct kickbacks. However, when that manager is up for review, he'll be able to point to the cost savings on his expense budget and look brilliant.
Right up until the outsourced labor can't get the job done on time, or at all. But by then, the "brilliant" manager will have moved to a different position, not necessarily with the same company.
India had no wide-level destruction during World War II. China didn't have a lot of infrastructure to destroy - they were still mostly an agrarian society when the Japanese invaded in 1937. There wasn't a single bullet fired in WW2 on the continent of South America, and yet they still don't have the level of industry or world-changing advances.
You're probably right about the advantage over western Europe, Russia (USSR), and Japan, but it hardly explains the idea of American exceptionalism in the 20th century.
1. he's talking about 1000 square feet, which is small anywhere except the Bay Area. 2. he's probably not including interest, and definitely not including taxes as he separated that out as a different line item 3. that's Chicago - you really don't want to hear what someone would pay for the same place in an even cheaper place to live, like Cincinnati or Indianapolis.
Shh! Don't let the secret out - I don't want all the Bay Area hipsters discovering that there's just as good living at 70% or less of the cost here. I enjoy making a Bay Area salary with a Midwest cost of living!
This might come as a galloping shock, but Chicago is expensive. You don't even have to go very far away from Chicago to find much cheaper cost of living, in a city.
I know what you'll say next - but it's not Chicago. And you're right. Choices cost.
They aren't complete shit like they used to be. Ford has stepped their game up pretty well in comparison to where they were 10 years ago. I still wouldn't buy a car from GM, but they've always made a decent capable truck, and they're doing better than they have in the past. Chrysler is still making mostly garbage - we'll see what happens after Fiat gets done exerting control, but I have my doubts that they will be able to get the job done where Daimler gave up.
I'll put it this way - when I am traveling and get a rental car, I used to get very disappointed when I saw it was going to be something from Detroit. Now I feel that way about Kia. I had a Ford Fusion and a Toyota Corolla fairly close to each other, and I think I liked the Ford better.
Would I like the Ford more over several years as an owner? I have no idea - I buy German.
Yeah, because the US Government is using Linux on the desktop.
No wait, they're running Windows. The data centers, however, probably have far more than 2% share of Linux. Just like practically every other data center out there today.
I don't know why anyone would be a "fan" of a company that has shown themselves to be a bad actor over and over again. I'd buy Sony before I buy Samsung, and I'll never own another Sony product because of their string of horseshit.
Mostly true, but you're leaving out one thing: Apple didn't have any of the public APIs, developer tools, or documentation ready to go when iPhone OS 1.0 shipped. They had a hard release window due to the January MacWorld keynote, and being late would have been a disaster. A lot of those early Cydia apps were horrible, because the developers had to figure out *everything* on their own using tools for developing Mac software.
Apple used the subsequent year between the original iPhone and the iPhone OS 2 in order to get ActiveSync working, as well as document public APIs and get the different tools ready in Xcode, including the device simulator. As well as figure out and implement the App Store infrastructure.
For all we know, 3rd party apps were always in the timeline. Cydia may have accelerated that timeline, and I'm glad it did.
Yeah, because shooting it with rifles would definitely not be "wasting money" at all.
It's already built. The launch costs are insignificant in comparison to what has already been spent. Shoot it up there, and let's learn something, rather than yelling YEEEEEE HAWWWWW and emptying a magazine from a rifle into what might be the world's most precision optical instrumentation.
Just when I thought I've read the most moronic post possible, AC steps up again.
We already have retroreflectors installed by the astronauts at their landing sites that you can bounce a laser of sufficient power off of.
The only people that don't think Apollo landed on the moon, are idiots that refuse to look at the overwhelming evidence, combined with the fact that no government project to fake something like that could have ever existed in secret for the last 45 years; and the "other team" in the Space Race would have loved to discredit the moon landings with any tracking data they undoubtedly had.
Honestly, it would be easier to just go to the moon than to fake it, even in 1969.
Please point to where "this has been done before" - show me a functioning piece of equipment at the L2 Lagrange point with the same capabilities as this hardware.
Oh wait, you can't, because it *hasn't* been done before.
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A lot of people forget that there isn't a lot Trump can do without the Congress playing along. And while his nonsense might play in the House, he's still down a few votes for cloture motions in the Senate. There are ways to work around that in the budgetary process through reconciliation, but it has a whole new set of rules around that.
The Congress is going to put the brakes on a lot of shit he wants to do, and even thinks he can do. The White House Counsel's office is going to have a busy four years.
The ultimate outcome of this might be interesting if it doesn't result in the total destruction of the Republic, as some are predicting. This Presidency may end up shifting power away from the strong executive back to the Congress where it should be. Or, it may end up with the VP having more of a role than having a pulse and breaking ties in the Senate.
What we do know, is that because the Congress is already controlled by the GOP, there won't be any hasty lame-duck sessions to ram anything through before Obama turns the lights out, like past Presidents have done going all the way back to before Thomas Jefferson was elected.
If I'm supposed to vote for the issues, why are third party candidates disqualified all of a sudden? I was unaware that we all had to fit into the political straight jacket of conformity with either the RNC or the DNC.
Go fuck yourself.
Congratulations on being part of the problem. But, more sincerely, congratulations on realizing it, and deciding not to be a tool of a political party again.
Because of this "tactic" we now have global uncertainty, and a potential for amazing upheaval not seen in decades.
Memo to the DNC: Sometimes you reap what you sew. Enjoy taking a back seat to the incoming shit show because you decided to be cute and chase the moderate Republicans that you can actually work with out during the primaries.
You can't elect women that don't run.
There are many reasons why Congress and the population as a whole don't sample equally.
Not necessarily. Claiming BMW would introduce shloads of bias, which you are already displaying.
You also forgot Mercedes.
You do know there are other jobs in IT besides being a help desk phoneslap, right? I know this might be a shock for you, but not every business can run on Quickbooks. Sometimes a company will have a very complex billing structure, based around many factors that make it unique to that business, requiring custom software development in order to make it work. This software isn't written by "IT help desk flunkies" but by real software engineers, working in IT.
People who build data centers, and networks are in IT. People who keep servers running, secure, and performing as best as they can to deliver the information and services that the business needs are in IT.
The help desk job used to be the foot in the door - something you do that helps hone troubleshooting skills and gets people familiar with systems and how they operate, and how they can fail, and what to do about it. But there's other people that put those systems together to begin with - people who looked at systems from different vendors and providers, tested them and discussed the merits of each, and then chose and implemented them. Or, even built and coded the thing from the bare metal on up. All of that is IT's job, and it didn't just magically genesis itself.
Sure, you can say that some of that could be done on contract, or outsourced as well - but the results are usually far poorer than the often terrible results of even outsourcing the help desk.
I doubt there are direct kickbacks. However, when that manager is up for review, he'll be able to point to the cost savings on his expense budget and look brilliant.
Right up until the outsourced labor can't get the job done on time, or at all. But by then, the "brilliant" manager will have moved to a different position, not necessarily with the same company.
India had no wide-level destruction during World War II. China didn't have a lot of infrastructure to destroy - they were still mostly an agrarian society when the Japanese invaded in 1937. There wasn't a single bullet fired in WW2 on the continent of South America, and yet they still don't have the level of industry or world-changing advances.
You're probably right about the advantage over western Europe, Russia (USSR), and Japan, but it hardly explains the idea of American exceptionalism in the 20th century.
1. he's talking about 1000 square feet, which is small anywhere except the Bay Area.
2. he's probably not including interest, and definitely not including taxes as he separated that out as a different line item
3. that's Chicago - you really don't want to hear what someone would pay for the same place in an even cheaper place to live, like Cincinnati or Indianapolis.
Shh! Don't let the secret out - I don't want all the Bay Area hipsters discovering that there's just as good living at 70% or less of the cost here. I enjoy making a Bay Area salary with a Midwest cost of living!
This might come as a galloping shock, but Chicago is expensive. You don't even have to go very far away from Chicago to find much cheaper cost of living, in a city.
I know what you'll say next - but it's not Chicago. And you're right. Choices cost.
They aren't complete shit like they used to be. Ford has stepped their game up pretty well in comparison to where they were 10 years ago. I still wouldn't buy a car from GM, but they've always made a decent capable truck, and they're doing better than they have in the past. Chrysler is still making mostly garbage - we'll see what happens after Fiat gets done exerting control, but I have my doubts that they will be able to get the job done where Daimler gave up.
I'll put it this way - when I am traveling and get a rental car, I used to get very disappointed when I saw it was going to be something from Detroit. Now I feel that way about Kia. I had a Ford Fusion and a Toyota Corolla fairly close to each other, and I think I liked the Ford better.
Would I like the Ford more over several years as an owner? I have no idea - I buy German.
Yeah, because the US Government is using Linux on the desktop.
No wait, they're running Windows. The data centers, however, probably have far more than 2% share of Linux. Just like practically every other data center out there today.
To be fair, Germany voted in the National Socialists to the Reichstag too, to the point of giving Hitler enough power to seize the Chancellory.
Nobody ever said Democracy was perfect.
And I'm sure there are legitimate charges against every single one of them, and they will all get fair trials.
That's a new version of a "proactive recall" and "upright and ethical behavior" - when they botched the recall completely by not using the CSPC like they are supposed to, and reportedly tried to pay at least one person to stay quiet about their explodey phone, according to the New York Times.
This is, of course, after multiple convictions for bribery, tax evasion, price fixing, and collusion to the point of the CEO resigning in disgrace.
I don't know why anyone would be a "fan" of a company that has shown themselves to be a bad actor over and over again. I'd buy Sony before I buy Samsung, and I'll never own another Sony product because of their string of horseshit.
Yeah, because a Three Stooges film exactly replicates the necessary physics and detail of a moon landing hoax.
Yeah, I forgot that you are compelled to upgrade to each new version.
No wait, there are still people on iOS 6 and working just fine.
Mostly true, but you're leaving out one thing: Apple didn't have any of the public APIs, developer tools, or documentation ready to go when iPhone OS 1.0 shipped. They had a hard release window due to the January MacWorld keynote, and being late would have been a disaster. A lot of those early Cydia apps were horrible, because the developers had to figure out *everything* on their own using tools for developing Mac software.
Apple used the subsequent year between the original iPhone and the iPhone OS 2 in order to get ActiveSync working, as well as document public APIs and get the different tools ready in Xcode, including the device simulator. As well as figure out and implement the App Store infrastructure.
For all we know, 3rd party apps were always in the timeline. Cydia may have accelerated that timeline, and I'm glad it did.
Yeah, because shooting it with rifles would definitely not be "wasting money" at all.
It's already built. The launch costs are insignificant in comparison to what has already been spent. Shoot it up there, and let's learn something, rather than yelling YEEEEEE HAWWWWW and emptying a magazine from a rifle into what might be the world's most precision optical instrumentation.
Just when I thought I've read the most moronic post possible, AC steps up again.
Also, ESA has put a few things at L2 already. Experience counts.
We already have retroreflectors installed by the astronauts at their landing sites that you can bounce a laser of sufficient power off of.
The only people that don't think Apollo landed on the moon, are idiots that refuse to look at the overwhelming evidence, combined with the fact that no government project to fake something like that could have ever existed in secret for the last 45 years; and the "other team" in the Space Race would have loved to discredit the moon landings with any tracking data they undoubtedly had.
Honestly, it would be easier to just go to the moon than to fake it, even in 1969.
Please point to where "this has been done before" - show me a functioning piece of equipment at the L2 Lagrange point with the same capabilities as this hardware.
Oh wait, you can't, because it *hasn't* been done before.
Stop posting when you don't have a clue.
They should probably start with the top line of the customer survey, which is "phones that don't set my pants on fire"