And if Hillary hadn't devised the "super delegates" scheme to steal the convention votes, and state monies for her own campaign, Bernie would have won and run against Trump. Not that Bernie would have won, but at least he would have won the Democrat nomination as fairly as Democrats can run elections.
between Hilliary's campaign and the 95 media stars who attended dinners and drinks on April 9th & 10th to discuss how they were going to report her campaign and candidacy, and probably how to disparage the Republican candidate. https://wikileaks.org/podesta-...
And we sure saw the results. Fortunately for US she lost, but she is still campaigning and the media is still her, and the DNC's, sock puppet. Attendance was so small at her rallies the media constantly cropped their photos of those events to avoid revealing the dismal numbers, but other photos of those events were taken and released by attendees and observers, and yet they claim she "won" the popular vote. LOL! Now, we are finding out that "popular" vote included a lot of non-citizens and voters voting more than once. Some precincts had more voters than the population of the precinct!
Should I mention the collusion between Hillary and the news reporters who moderated those town hall meetings and other public forums? How cute that an adolescent girl with a red ribbon in her hair has am "unexpected" complex question to ask Hillary and Hillary has a perfectly prepared answer. Or that Donna Brazile finally admitted that she had passed questions to Hillary before one interview on CNN. Then later reveals that she "found proof" that the DNC rigged the convention election". Surprise, surprise. What she meant was the super delegates, a scheme by Hillary to guarantee that regardless of how local precincts voted the super delegates were going to vote for her. AND, it gave Hillary a way to bypass local election laws and funding limits, putting those monies directly into her coffers and, most likely, her Foundation, which turned out to be her, Bill's and Chelsey's personal ATM, with sending nothing to Haiti after claiming to have sent millions.
After her not so stellar performance as Sec of State, during which she colluded with Russia to transfer some of our U235 stocks to Russia in exchange for "donations" to the Clinton Foundation and $500,000 to Bill for a "speech" in Moscow -- the pay to play scheme designed to enrich her, Bill and their "Foundation", along with bones thrown to the DNC.
Go ahead, DNC, continue the suit. It will be great to get this information exposed in open court, under oath, and with cross examination of subpoenaed witnesses from the DNC and Democrats as well.
But Google is just as bad but not as obvious as is any other social media. You are the product.
I don't know what you mean by 'not as obvious', but no Google is not just as bad. And it just confuses the issue to insist that they are......
Oh really? Google is owned by the same company that owns YouTube. If you make Google/YouTube mad by posting what THEY consider politically incorrect videos (not agreeing with their politics) they'll demonetize your video. IOW, they won't pay YOU any of the money they continue to receive from businesses whose ads continue to surround your video. That's simply theft using politics as an excuse.
And, email has groups. And, you can encrypt attachments to emails and friends who like the blub promo in the email can be sent one-time keys to members added to the attend-group to unlock the encrypted attachment.
"I'm a narcissist that isn't getting rewarded on social media by people telling me how great I am, so now I'm telling people that I stopped using it. Aren't I unique, quirky, and a total edge Lord?
I'm so young and counter culture it hurts"
Yeah, great, you play in the sand box kid
Your comment reflects the total hostility that is exhibited on all sides of any topic on most forums these days.
Not knowing a single fact about the poster you fling poo like a caged monkey, while insinuating the worst motives about your target anonymously. YOU are what is wrong with trying to hold intelligent discussions on most comment forums today.
The Internet has become the new public commons and as such no corporation or gov agency should act as gatekeepers dictating who can and cannot speak on an Internet forum, especially if they solicited enrollment from the general public with promises of being fair.
I never signed up for Twitter and dropped Facebook months after I signed on when my list of friends got hacked and even worse, an unknown friend of a friend of a friend... sent a snapshot of herself in bra and panties and asking to be "friends". She appeared to be a minor. Even then, FB told me that if I clicked any button on any site that was related to FB for the next six weeks it would immediately reactivate my account.
I signed up for Gmail soon after it started and was supportive of their "First, Do No Evil" slogan. As they morphed into a company that made evil its primary plan I decided to drop gmail and my G+ account. First, I visited passwords.google.com and was stunned to learn that they had my login names and passwords for every web account I created in the previous ten years, and some I had forgotten about. They even had my wifi admin login name and password. After dumping my info I went to every website and either canceled it or changed my name and password.
The command netstat shows that while running a naked browser on any particular website at least two dozen or more 3rd party or tracker websites are connected to my computer and leaching info and watching everything I do online, even if I leave that website. Running with NoScript active causes many website to not display properly or at all. Many websites want you to allow cookies so they can spy and also hijack the HTML code arriving at your browser from other sites by planting ads that the website didn't code in and wasn't asked to include.
So, Microsoft is admitting that they can read or watch and listen to encrypted connections. Well, with "Legal Intercept" we knew that for some time. I banned Microsoft from my PC years ago in favor of Linux (KDE Neon on Btrfs). If you don't want MS to be your nanny then its time you moved to Linux as well.
"Thus, 14289 (76%) participants were included in this analysis. 1150 (9%) individuals had concentrations of lead in blood below the level of detection and had an amount of 07 g/dL (0034 mol/L) imputed."
So, for 9% of those still alive whose Pb blood level was below the level of detection they "imputed" their Pb level at 0.7 micrograms per deciliter.
"Our findings suggest that, of 23 million deaths every year in the USA, about 400000 are attributable to lead exposure, an estimate that is about ten times larger than the current one."
"suggests"? A British journal citing work by a Canadian research team about children in America and their findings, claiming an influence 10X larger than previous research, are a "suggestion".
The Lancet has taken huge detours into politics in the last few decades and this appears to be another side jaunt. What issue in American politics could they possibly be trying to influence? Obama shut down the last remaining lead mining and processing plant in Missouri in 2013, and by E.O. outlawed importing Lead into the country. http://www.thefirearmblog.com/...
Very few people actually listen to broadcast radio anymore. Only the people with commutes whose CD player doesn't work, or doesn't have any type of auxiliary input. Home listening? Nope.
Broadcast TV is next.
I haven't listened to radio in over 10 years, about the same time I cut the TV cable. I used a TV antenna for a few years but then installed Roku for a one time charge and now get my "TV" over a 100mps connection. Congress mandates that cable TV stations must broadcast their signal over the air, so until Congress overrides that law we will still be getting TV over the air.
Not that there is anything worth watching on it that we all haven't seen at least 50 times and can recite the scripts from memory. My wife and I have fun doing that with old Perry Mason broadcasts.
$ ping protonmail.com PING protonmail.com (185.70.40.182) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 185-70-40-182.protonmail.ch (185.70.40.182): icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=138 ms served on a GoDaddy server
~$ ping protonmail.ch PING protonmail.ch (185.70.40.181) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 185-70-40-181.protonmail.ch (185.70.40.181): icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=125 ms
So, protonmail.com is at 185.70.40.182 and protonmail.ch is at 185.70.40.181
Interestingly, when I attempt to "whois" protonmail.ch I get: ~$ whois protonmail.ch "The number of requests per client per time interval is restricted. You have exceeded this limit. Please wait a moment and try again." I can whois any other site repeatedly without problems of a "per client per time" limit. Whois is being less than open about its results.
In/etc/hosts place 185.70.40.182 protonmail.com 185.70.40.181 protonmail.ch
If anything we're getting back to the winters I remember from when I was younger, it's been unusually mild here for the past several years. I guess most of the complaining comes from the teenagers and people who moved into the area less than a decade ago, for most of us natives this weather is normal.
I can attest to that. 65 years ago I had to shovel a path through waist high snow to get a bucket of coal from the coal shed to heat the house. Blizzard of 1948. Around the last of May or the first of June of my senior year in HS the day started out in the upper 60s with a clear blue sky. By 10AM it started raining, which soon turned to hail and then sleet and snow. Six inches and an hour later the sun came out and by 3:00 pm it was all melted.
The worst problem with AGW is that it cannot be falsified. That changes it from a science to a religion. There was a similar occurrence in the USSR. It is now called Lysenkoism. A "science" in which scientific fact is determined by politics.
Too much rain -- AGW Not enough rain --AGW Too hot -- AGW Too cold --AGW Etc.... Despite covering all their bases with hedges the basic "predictions" (usually after the fact) have been always wrong. Even worse, proponents are deliberately altering or destroying historical records so that the "data" fits their theory. Fraudulent and shameful!
Every time I spend five hundred bucks on a replacement battery for my APC UPS I had the same thought: isn't there a better way to be doing this?
Yes. Replace the APC UPS with one from another manufacturer. APC UPSs are complete and total shit.
I can confirm that. Even the test button beeps and gave the appropriate light signal, but when an actual power outage occurred the APC UPS went down with the desktop. I was running SuSE 6.3 at the time and it turned out that the sudden power outage didn't cause the loss of anything, so I unplugged the UPS and put it in the garbage can. I had many power failures while running my Linux systems and never lost a byte on reboot.
One of the features that helped me convince the dept where I worked to switch to a Linux system for a BBS tax system was during the demo I was asked what would happen if the power failed. (Power failure and crashes were plaguing their Windows + Wildcat BBS, especially on weekends, when someone in the IT department had to come in and reboot the Windows desktop.) "Like this?", I asked, as I pulled the power cord out of the wall. After plugging it back in the system booted up to the menu without problems. It was in operation for 18 months without a single software or OS failure, even though power in the building failed several times during that period, and then it was outsourced.
Every time I spend five hundred bucks on a replacement battery for my APC UPS I had the same thought: isn't there a better way to be doing this?
UPS are needed only for desktops because they allow about 5 minutes of power to do an orderly shutdown. Laptops have their own "UPS".
But, there is another way for both Desktops and laptops. I run Btrfs as my root filing system. I can take nearly instantaneous snapshots of my system on a regular basis, and continue working while those snapshots are sent to an external drive or remote server for offsite storage. Recovery takes less than 3 minutes, unless the sudden power outage caused permanent damage to the hardware. Even then, after the damaged components are replaced a restoration takes less than 3 minutes.
If an electrical device (UL or not) is plugged into the mains and results in the apartment complex burning down there is someone to blame -- the landlord or owner, for not maintaining the fuse boxes or wiring, and for not having adequate fire suppression in the floors, walls and especially the ceiling.
I had an outlet on our house stop working. The electrician showed me the cause: aluminum wiring which had gradually corroded the brass screws holding the wiring in. I had him replace all the aluminum wiring in our house with copper wiring.
Nonsense. I've built just about everything HeathKit offered, including their color TV, before they went out of business. There was/is NO clause in our home insurance policy that excludes electronic devices built by home owners. It does require that electrical repairs & additions, and plumbing work be done by licensed and bonded journeymen, which only makes sense. Our outlets have safety fuses which blow instantly in case you drop your electric shaver, hair dryer or hair curler in the sink full of water, preventing both fire and harm.
House circuits have 15 & 20 amp fuses which protect house circuits from over heating and fire in case a radio, TV, drill, saw, vacuum cleaner, etc., shorts out.
But, to your credit, if it means anything, you appear to be the first post.
What? I didn't realize that Trump was part of the Uranium One deal which allowed 20% of the US U235 supply to be sold to Russia, with $500,000 going directly to BIll Clinton for "speaking fees" and millions in undisclosed "donations" going to the Clinton Foundation (Clinton's ATM) in exchange for access to Sec of State Hillary. Mueller was Hillary's bag man who took a 10g sample of U235 to Russia for forensic proofing, (Snopes, run by Leftist Democrats, will give you Clinton's and Mueller's explanation) and Mueller is now "investigating" collusion between Trump and Russia. Laughable. The NYT has all the dirty details: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/0...
I stopped using Windows when Microsoft bailed on Visual FoxPro in favor of.NET. I moved to the Qt API and haven't looked back.
The London Stock Exchange attempted to use a.NET transaction package (co-written by MS & Accenture) but after several attempts to achieve a sub 0.2 ms transaction time it crashed a 2nd time, and big time, keeping the LSE off line for a day and costing them over $1 Billion. The LSE solved their problem by buying a Linux software company that had a stock market transaction package running for over 5 years without a crash at several times the speed of the.NET "solution".
People are moving to Linux from Windows in droves, either by wiping Win10 and replacing it with a popular Linux distro, or by dual booting. Microsoft wants to kill that trend by offering stripped down versions of Linux distros in their "Store" so that users can get an undervalued experience "using" Linux and lose their interest in that OS/desktop.
It's like being a car dealer and allowing your cars to be demonstrated to customers by other car dealers. I'm sure a Ford dealership will give a fair ride and review of a Chevy car.
"Windows recovers from some things well, others... not so much. Same can be said with Linux and OS X"
Don't know about Windows, I haven't run it in 10 years. But, I run KDE Neon on top of Btrfs and there isn't a better FS for Linux than Btrfs. Making snapshots of @ and @home take only seconds and doesn't use any HD space. Rolling back to your last snapshot to recover from anything takes less than 2-3 minutes.
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And if Hillary hadn't devised the "super delegates" scheme to steal the convention votes, and state monies for her own campaign, Bernie would have won and run against Trump. Not that Bernie would have won, but at least he would have won the Democrat nomination as fairly as Democrats can run elections.
between Hilliary's campaign and the 95 media stars who attended dinners and drinks on April 9th & 10th to discuss how they were going to report her campaign and candidacy, and probably how to disparage the Republican candidate.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-...
And we sure saw the results. Fortunately for US she lost, but she is still campaigning and the media is still her, and the DNC's, sock puppet. Attendance was so small at her rallies the media constantly cropped their photos of those events to avoid revealing the dismal numbers, but other photos of those events were taken and released by attendees and observers, and yet they claim she "won" the popular vote. LOL! Now, we are finding out that "popular" vote included a lot of non-citizens and voters voting more than once. Some precincts had more voters than the population of the precinct!
Should I mention the collusion between Hillary and the news reporters who moderated those town hall meetings and other public forums? How cute that an adolescent girl with a red ribbon in her hair has am "unexpected" complex question to ask Hillary and Hillary has a perfectly prepared answer. Or that Donna Brazile finally admitted that she had passed questions to Hillary before one interview on CNN. Then later reveals that she "found proof" that the DNC rigged the convention election". Surprise, surprise. What she meant was the super delegates, a scheme by Hillary to guarantee that regardless of how local precincts voted the super delegates were going to vote for her. AND, it gave Hillary a way to bypass local election laws and funding limits, putting those monies directly into her coffers and, most likely, her Foundation, which turned out to be her, Bill's and Chelsey's personal ATM, with sending nothing to Haiti after claiming to have sent millions.
After her not so stellar performance as Sec of State, during which she colluded with Russia to transfer some of our U235 stocks to Russia in exchange for "donations" to the Clinton Foundation and $500,000 to Bill for a "speech" in Moscow -- the pay to play scheme designed to enrich her, Bill and their "Foundation", along with bones thrown to the DNC.
Go ahead, DNC, continue the suit. It will be great to get this information exposed in open court, under oath, and with cross examination of subpoenaed witnesses from the DNC and Democrats as well.
Oh! Look! A monkey flinging turds!
But Google is just as bad but not as obvious as is any other social media. You are the product.
I don't know what you mean by 'not as obvious', but no Google is not just as bad. And it just confuses the issue to insist that they are. .....
Oh really? Google is owned by the same company that owns YouTube. If you make Google/YouTube mad by posting what THEY consider politically incorrect videos (not agreeing with their politics) they'll demonetize your video. IOW, they won't pay YOU any of the money they continue to receive from businesses whose ads continue to surround your video. That's simply theft using politics as an excuse.
And, email has groups.
And, you can encrypt attachments to emails and friends who like the blub promo in the email can be sent one-time keys to members added to the attend-group to unlock the encrypted attachment.
Etc... There are many ways to skin that cat.
Have you been to gab.ai ?
"I'm a narcissist that isn't getting rewarded on social media by people telling me how great I am, so now I'm telling people that I stopped using it. Aren't I unique, quirky, and a total edge Lord?
I'm so young and counter culture it hurts"
Yeah, great, you play in the sand box kid
Your comment reflects the total hostility that is exhibited on all sides of any topic on most forums these days.
Not knowing a single fact about the poster you fling poo like a caged monkey, while insinuating the worst motives about your target anonymously. YOU are what is wrong with trying to hold intelligent discussions on most comment forums today.
YES!
The Internet has become the new public commons and as such no corporation or gov agency should act as gatekeepers dictating who can and cannot speak on an Internet forum, especially if they solicited enrollment from the general public with promises of being fair.
I never signed up for Twitter and dropped Facebook months after I signed on when my list of friends got hacked and even worse, an unknown friend of a friend of a friend ... sent a snapshot of herself in bra and panties and asking to be "friends". She appeared to be a minor. Even then, FB told me that if I clicked any button on any site that was related to FB for the next six weeks it would immediately reactivate my account.
I signed up for Gmail soon after it started and was supportive of their "First, Do No Evil" slogan. As they morphed into a company that made evil its primary plan I decided to drop gmail and my G+ account. First, I visited passwords.google.com and was stunned to learn that they had my login names and passwords for every web account I created in the previous ten years, and some I had forgotten about. They even had my wifi admin login name and password. After dumping my info I went to every website and either canceled it or changed my name and password.
The command netstat shows that while running a naked browser on any particular website at least two dozen or more 3rd party or tracker websites are connected to my computer and leaching info and watching everything I do online, even if I leave that website. Running with NoScript active causes many website to not display properly or at all. Many websites want you to allow cookies so they can spy and also hijack the HTML code arriving at your browser from other sites by planting ads that the website didn't code in and wasn't asked to include.
It wasn't Linux. It was the Java code surrounding it.
So, Microsoft is admitting that they can read or watch and listen to encrypted connections. Well, with "Legal Intercept" we knew that for some time. I banned Microsoft from my PC years ago in favor of Linux (KDE Neon on Btrfs). If you don't want MS to be your nanny then its time you moved to Linux as well.
"Thus, 14289 (76%) participants were included in this analysis. 1150 (9%) individuals had concentrations of lead in blood below the level of detection and had an amount of 07 g/dL (0034 mol/L) imputed."
So, for 9% of those still alive whose Pb blood level was below the level of detection they "imputed" their Pb level at 0.7 micrograms per deciliter.
"Our findings suggest that, of 23 million deaths every year in the USA, about 400000 are attributable to lead exposure, an estimate that is about ten times larger than the current one."
"suggests"? A British journal citing work by a Canadian research team about children in America and their findings, claiming an influence 10X larger than previous research, are a "suggestion".
The Lancet has taken huge detours into politics in the last few decades and this appears to be another side jaunt. What issue in American politics could they possibly be trying to influence? Obama shut down the last remaining lead mining and processing plant in Missouri in 2013, and by E.O. outlawed importing Lead into the country.
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/...
This full text link works:
http://www.thelancet.com/journ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Very few people actually listen to broadcast radio anymore. Only the people with commutes whose CD player doesn't work, or doesn't have any type of auxiliary input. Home listening? Nope.
Broadcast TV is next.
I haven't listened to radio in over 10 years, about the same time I cut the TV cable. I used a TV antenna for a few years but then installed Roku for a one time charge and now get my "TV" over a 100mps connection.
Congress mandates that cable TV stations must broadcast their signal over the air, so until Congress overrides that law we will still be getting TV over the air.
Not that there is anything worth watching on it that we all haven't seen at least 50 times and can recite the scripts from memory. My wife and I have fun doing that with old Perry Mason broadcasts.
$ ping protonmail.com
PING protonmail.com (185.70.40.182) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 185-70-40-182.protonmail.ch (185.70.40.182): icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=138 ms
served on a GoDaddy server
~$ whois protonmail.com ...
Domain Name: PROTONMAIL.COM
Registry Domain ID: 1612103273_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com/
Updated Date: 2016-08-10T23:37:51Z
Creation Date: 2010-08-21T09:10:58Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2019-08-21T09:10:58Z
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 146
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@godaddy.com
Name Server: NS1.PROTONMAIL.CH
Name Server: NS2.PROTONMAIL.CH
~$ ping protonmail.ch
PING protonmail.ch (185.70.40.181) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 185-70-40-181.protonmail.ch (185.70.40.181): icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=125 ms
So, protonmail.com is at 185.70.40.182 and protonmail.ch is at 185.70.40.181
Interestingly, when I attempt to "whois" protonmail.ch I get:
~$ whois protonmail.ch
"The number of requests per client per time interval is restricted. You have exceeded this limit. Please wait a moment and try again."
I can whois any other site repeatedly without problems of a "per client per time" limit. Whois is being less than open about its results.
In /etc/hosts place
185.70.40.182 protonmail.com
185.70.40.181 protonmail.ch
and bypass DNS blocking.
If anything we're getting back to the winters I remember from when I was younger, it's been unusually mild here for the past several years. I guess most of the complaining comes from the teenagers and people who moved into the area less than a decade ago, for most of us natives this weather is normal.
I can attest to that. 65 years ago I had to shovel a path through waist high snow to get a bucket of coal from the coal shed to heat the house. Blizzard of 1948. Around the last of May or the first of June of my senior year in HS the day started out in the upper 60s with a clear blue sky. By 10AM it started raining, which soon turned to hail and then sleet and snow. Six inches and an hour later the sun came out and by 3:00 pm it was all melted.
The worst problem with AGW is that it cannot be falsified. That changes it from a science to a religion. There was a similar occurrence in the USSR. It is now called Lysenkoism. A "science" in which scientific fact is determined by politics.
Too much rain -- AGW
Not enough rain --AGW
Too hot -- AGW
Too cold --AGW
Etc....
Despite covering all their bases with hedges the basic "predictions" (usually after the fact) have been always wrong. Even worse, proponents are deliberately altering or destroying historical records so that the "data" fits their theory. Fraudulent and shameful!
Every time I spend five hundred bucks on a replacement battery for my APC UPS I had the same thought: isn't there a better way to be doing this?
Yes. Replace the APC UPS with one from another manufacturer.
APC UPSs are complete and total shit.
I can confirm that. Even the test button beeps and gave the appropriate light signal, but when an actual power outage occurred the APC UPS went down with the desktop. I was running SuSE 6.3 at the time and it turned out that the sudden power outage didn't cause the loss of anything, so I unplugged the UPS and put it in the garbage can. I had many power failures while running my Linux systems and never lost a byte on reboot.
One of the features that helped me convince the dept where I worked to switch to a Linux system for a BBS tax system was during the demo I was asked what would happen if the power failed. (Power failure and crashes were plaguing their Windows + Wildcat BBS, especially on weekends, when someone in the IT department had to come in and reboot the Windows desktop.) "Like this?", I asked, as I pulled the power cord out of the wall. After plugging it back in the system booted up to the menu without problems. It was in operation for 18 months without a single software or OS failure, even though power in the building failed several times during that period, and then it was outsourced.
Every time I spend five hundred bucks on a replacement battery for my APC UPS I had the same thought: isn't there a better way to be doing this?
UPS are needed only for desktops because they allow about 5 minutes of power to do an orderly shutdown. Laptops have their own "UPS".
But, there is another way for both Desktops and laptops. I run Btrfs as my root filing system. I can take nearly instantaneous snapshots of my system on a regular basis, and continue working while those snapshots are sent to an external drive or remote server for offsite storage. Recovery takes less than 3 minutes, unless the sudden power outage caused permanent damage to the hardware. Even then, after the damaged components are replaced a restoration takes less than 3 minutes.
If an electrical device (UL or not) is plugged into the mains and results in the apartment complex burning down there is someone to blame -- the landlord or owner, for not maintaining the fuse boxes or wiring, and for not having adequate fire suppression in the floors, walls and especially the ceiling.
I had an outlet on our house stop working. The electrician showed me the cause: aluminum wiring which had gradually corroded the brass screws holding the wiring in. I had him replace all the aluminum wiring in our house with copper wiring.
Nonsense.
I've built just about everything HeathKit offered, including their color TV, before they went out of business. There was/is NO clause in our home insurance policy that excludes electronic devices built by home owners. It does require that electrical repairs & additions, and plumbing work be done by licensed and bonded journeymen, which only makes sense. Our outlets have safety fuses which blow instantly in case you drop your electric shaver, hair dryer or hair curler in the sink full of water, preventing both fire and harm.
House circuits have 15 & 20 amp fuses which protect house circuits from over heating and fire in case a radio, TV, drill, saw, vacuum cleaner, etc., shorts out.
But, to your credit, if it means anything, you appear to be the first post.
What? I didn't realize that Trump was part of the Uranium One deal which allowed 20% of the US U235 supply to be sold to Russia, with $500,000 going directly to BIll Clinton for "speaking fees" and millions in undisclosed "donations" going to the Clinton Foundation (Clinton's ATM) in exchange for access to Sec of State Hillary. Mueller was Hillary's bag man who took a 10g sample of U235 to Russia for forensic proofing, (Snopes, run by Leftist Democrats, will give you Clinton's and Mueller's explanation) and Mueller is now "investigating" collusion between Trump and Russia. Laughable.
The NYT has all the dirty details:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/0...
I stopped using Windows when Microsoft bailed on Visual FoxPro in favor of .NET. I moved to the Qt API and haven't looked back.
The London Stock Exchange attempted to use a .NET transaction package (co-written by MS & Accenture) but after several attempts to achieve a sub 0.2 ms transaction time it crashed a 2nd time, and big time, keeping the LSE off line for a day and costing them over $1 Billion. The LSE solved their problem by buying a Linux software company that had a stock market transaction package running for over 5 years without a crash at several times the speed of the .NET "solution".
People are moving to Linux from Windows in droves, either by wiping Win10 and replacing it with a popular Linux distro, or by dual booting. Microsoft wants to kill that trend by offering stripped down versions of Linux distros in their "Store" so that users can get an undervalued experience "using" Linux and lose their interest in that OS/desktop.
It's like being a car dealer and allowing your cars to be demonstrated to customers by other car dealers. I'm sure a Ford dealership will give a fair ride and review of a Chevy car.
NOT if it is running on top of Win10. That's like bolting a Pratt & Whitney Turbine to the frame of a Cessna 152.
"Windows recovers from some things well, others... not so much. Same can be said with Linux and OS X"
Don't know about Windows, I haven't run it in 10 years. But, I run KDE Neon on top of Btrfs and there isn't a better FS for Linux than Btrfs. Making snapshots of @ and @home take only seconds and doesn't use any HD space. Rolling back to your last snapshot to recover from anything takes less than 2-3 minutes.