It would be a surprise if you weren't trying to skirt the lines of the rules already, but they KNEW they were riding the line already. They've been rejected more than once before. It shouldn't really be a surprise when they ban it again, especially if it happens to be for reasons they may not have noticed in testing... like say, notifications that weren't during the 'testing' phase?
This isn't a quality app so this isn't an issue in that respect, no one is going to miss an app that recommends purchases based on who pays them the most. Do you know what payola is?
AppGratis is an app where developers pay money for getting their app in the Top 100 rankings and such. You pay them somewhere between 4k and tens of thousands of dollars, then you set your app to FREE for a day they tell you and the send a message to a certain number of users in order to get you pushed to the ranking you paid for on Apple's lists. Some of these users aren't actual users, just accounts used to inflate the rankings.
This is the absolute scummiest type of 'marketing' in existence without flat out lying. Its manipulation of the system for financial gain based on bribes. Apple banning them is a GOOD THING. Might as well be Payola. Apple doesn't want their rankings or their users tainted by scummy advertising scams.
Walled garden or not, you don't want this type of app or system to exist. Put down your apple pitch fork long enough to see the bigger picture.
Been using Zotero with LaTeX for most of my career
Its not really a carreer when you've been doing it for just a few years. A career involves a lifelong body of work, which you can not possible have in less than 7 years which is how long Zotero has existed.
The fact that you've only used one product of the type in your 'career' re-enforces my point.
The rest of the world doesn't share your 'OMG LINUX OR DIE' or 'OMG FOSS/LIBRE/FREE AS IN I DON'T PAY FOR IT OR DIE' attitude. Why the fuck should they cater to you and your statistically irrelevant friends?
Why is it so incredibly hard for people such as yourself to understand that not everyone thinks your way is the right way? Just because you think you have a better solution doesn't mean it actually is. Making it easy for 3 people, but more complex for 30,000 people is really fucking stupid, but thats what you're implying they should do.
You are the odd man out and you don't have any reason other than personal politics for it. Deal with it. You created the situation for yourself, no one did it to you.
Also, Zotero is absolute shit, which is why I can safely say you're just fucking fanboying for it rather than making valid points. You even go so far as to point out how shitty it is and then promptly proceed to ignore it. That is but one complaint of thousands, and some of them are downright stupid easy fixes.
So if I go home and eat my lunch... no taxes since you don't get taxed on food (maybe in California, you guys are nutjobs;).
But if I eat it at work, where a cook makes my meal instead of my wife... that I get taxed for?
Lets see, whats better? Me driving home for lunch, wasting gasoline, road wear and tear and pollution... or staying at work for lunch?
The UF tax law professor just needs to be shot. He's just a whining bitch. Its not like he has a real job, he's a fucking professor, he doesn't actually work anyway. Two classes a week that he sits in while his assistants do all the work or someone else lectures. String his ass up from a tree until he stops talking. No, I don't like lawyers, especially ones who like to whine about how they are treated unfairly while essentially doing nothing but draining otherwise useful resources from the world and our budget.
I know several Microsoft fanboys who own iPhones. They never use OSX but they have an iPhone.
A few Android users as well. They run Windows even though they have a Linux phone.
You do realize that it is possible to pick products based on their fit for your usage rather than because you're such an ignorant fanboy you must buy the one thats for your team.
Another great addition to your message was the intentional misspelling of those companies. Let me give you a hint, that stopped being cool or funny when you turned 12 or in 1992, which ever came first. It makes it clear you're just spewing fanboy rather than clear rational thoughts.
Not Novel? I was using IR and accelerometers together years before the Wii existed. It was only 'not novel' if you new absolutely nothing about the components involved and how they are used on a regular basis. Note: My usage of IRs and accelorometers on robots for guidance is something I learned from a book years ago, its not something I came up with, its rather well known stuff.
This sounds a bit like old media complaining about new media writers not being professional journalists who graduated and worked their way up from the bottom (read: aren't baby boomers).
You mean because people who've done something their entire lives get annoyed that random people who created a word press account suddenly think because they can post to the Internet that they are journalists?
I can't imagine why. I'd have absolutely no problem giving up my life long career, knowledge and wisdom so some jackass with no experience and barely the ability spell their own name comes in to take it over because the barrier to entry suddenly vanished.
'New media' aren't 'journalists'. Its not because its on the Internet, its because signing up for an account on some web site and spewing your incoherent thought at the rest of us on your blog does not make you a journalist.
Really? Because no one uses your web of trust, we all use certificate authorities which (in theory) verify the integrity for us, kind of like Journals.
Only wanna-be cryptonerds who still fail to understand why self-signed certs are next to worthless still carry on about 'web of trust' crap. Okay, so a few guys who ACTUALLY know cryptography may still be in that camp for legitimate theoretical reasons, but no one considers that acceptable for the real world. Well, okay, clearly you do, so some people do, probably the same people who don't understand why BitCoin is doomed to failure I expect.
Your standards are different than mine, your friends standards are different than both of us, so your trust and your friends trust ratings are meaningless to me. Actually, they are truly meaningless for me because I know (Safe assumption) that you don't actually have a formal standard for what you 'trust', its an ad-hoc system thrown together without thinking it through.
Its called reckless driving, and every state in America has some variation of the law on the books. This just makes it hard to argue with the judge about 'reckless' since a specific form of it is on the books.
This law just makes it so when the cop shows the judge his dash cam video of you talking on your phone, you can't argue about it being 'reckless' or not, as the action is illegal even without more arbitrary conditions.
Tell me how many LIVING people you know that viewed paper maps WHILE DRIVING?
Those people typically end up dead fairly quickly.
You pull over, look at the map, figure out where you are going, how to get there, remember those road names and turns, put the map away, then you go do it.
You did not, and DO not read the map WHILE driving. Thats just stupid and if you do it, I hope they revoke your license before you kill someone.
Then you deserve to be pulled over and ticketed. I don't really give a fuck WHAT your doing. If a cop can tell you're doing something other than driving, you deserve a ticket.
The law here is perfectly fine. The guy trying to skirt around the letter of the law in order to avoid the spirit of the law got exactly what he should, beat down.
You can not possibly be paying proper attention to your driving if a cop can tell you're fucking with something in your car. He doesn't have to pull you over for fucking with your phone, every state in the union has a reckless driving type law he can smack you with if he wants.
No California doesn't need to ban it specifically, we just need to hang some fucking lawyers up by their balls so this kind of shit never goes to court.
The only actual fix for the problem is to not make it possible. The end result is going to be that because Americans have zero self control, a law will need to be passed that anything with a GPS connected to it will disable its input controls and displays over a certain speed, with exception for critical features such as gauges and warning lights. Thats the only way this problem will be resolved.
This doesn't just apply to cell phones, but all sorts of devices that may end up distracting the driver. Its not what should happen if we humans acted only slightly less selfishly and waited a few minutes to take a phone call or text message. You aren't that important, I assure you. The people that ARE that important, have someone else driving them AND someone else to answer their phone, email, all other shit.
This prick needs to have his license revoked for life because he doesn't understand how serious driving a car is. We're talking about banning guns because of a couple isolated incidents, but we don't say a fucking thing over the rate of shitty drivers. Fact: War, Suicide, Murder, and all other 'intentional deaths' account for 2.8% of the deaths per year roughly. Automobile Accidents are ranked at 2.1%. You're only slightly more likely to die in War than you are driving your car. And thats US stats, not some country who is actually at war (like being in syria or kenya). The more ignorant drivers we can spank/take off the road, the better.
Again, if a cop can figure out that you were fucking with your phone, it doesn't matter what you were doing, you shouldn't be allowed to drive a car. You do not understand or respect the physics involved and shouldn't be allowed to share the road with those of us who do and do want to continue living. My life is far more important than your retarded SMS, phone call, or map.
You should learn to google. There are multiple publicly documented examples of laser doing just that.
These were conducted in pretty 'ideal' conditions, clear sunny days, and from stationary immobile platforms, but it's been done and verified to work to at least some level.
What about virtual box, virtual iron, parallels, and QEMU drivers just to start? And thats just some of the popular/well known hypervisors.
And what about Bloat? Why not include every driver and software package known to man?
You don't NEED the vmware tools installed, the OS will run without them. You want them installed for better performance and because VMware is shit and won't send an ACPI shutdown command to the guest, only a freaking vmware tools command.
Than its fairly safe to say you (and other Linux users) have a fairly different meaning of 'standard' than... well, everyone else in the world.
You don't eat CPU time at idle, thats exactly the opposite of idle. I realize you mean that the daemons sit around eating CPU doing nothing you care about, but I suspect, even on a desktop install of Ubuntu you'll find the CPU sitting at 99.9% idle in top since those daemons are in sleep/wait states and not using any CPU.
Raspian has no CPU in use when even when X is running if you're not doing anything. Daemons swap out and don't waste CPU if they aren't in use and aren't shitty daemons. They do waste swap space though.
No Linux distro on the planet uses the stock kernel. All of them have different locations for many different files. All of them have major patchs to all sorts of 'standard' apps.
You seem to not understand what makes a distro different. If they were all 'standard' you wouldn't have xteen million variations of Linux.
Linux's lack of standardization is repeatedly brought up as one of its largest problems in becoming a more common desktop since software vendors don't want to target a bunch of slightly different distro's to pick up a statistically insignificant portion of the population.
I've done the sync between gmail and Dovecot and Cyrus IMAP.
The 'tags as folders' thing isn't an issue for imap clients as the server tells the client (because its tagged) that the message is deleted.
I can safely say Yahoo is at fault. Having moved many millions of messages myself, there is no reason on Google's side that this 'HAD' to happen.
The Deleted flag is NOT one of the flags that Google doesn't handle properly.
If you simply run IMAPSync on gmail, it will work almost flawlessly, none of the issues Sky has had come up when dealing with Gmail to Dovecot or Cyrus.
They didn't properly handle the migration or they migrated to a shitty provider, either way, both Sky and Yahoo should have their asses handed to them for giving absolutely horrible service to their customers.
A cracker is a cowboy in Florida with a whip that he 'cracks' to encourage his cattle to move on demand.
A honkey is a racial slur for white people.
You probably also think Redneck is a racial slur. Neither Cracker or Redneck are racial slurs, they define a working class of people, race/color is irrelevant.
If you're going to be a bigot, at least get your fucking racism and prejudice right.
I'd bet a weeks pay that you're a liar and no one ever told you to 'get the hell out'.
The fact that you're even pretending it was said brings doubt to you even working there.
As a former Disney employee, you would have been formally informed of policies regarding unapproved language and termination on Disney property. That statement alone would have gotten the person you fired from most positions on the spot.
There is a REASON there are 10 people lined up outside to take your job, it is perhaps the best job you can find at a young age in central florida.
You should be doing it the Disney Way, the Disney Way makes their customers happy? Have you ever BEEN on a Disney vacation as an adult? You will not find a better service regardless of your tastes.
Yes, it was a shit job, as are all jobs for untrained/uneducated workers, like you know... the majority of Disney's employees.
Working at Disney is no different than working at any unskilled labor position.
Disney doesn't want your dumb ass fucking up their image when you go do something fucking retarded like drink and drive, or go to jail for something and have a mug shot with their logo posted all over the news paper. If you can not understand why your uniform stayed on Disney property, you are indeed too stupid to deserve the job in the first place.
I don't recall the training being demeaning, nor has any of my friends ever mentioned the job as being demeaning in any way. We all have our stories about customers, but Disney is pretty much considered the cream of the crop places to work in the service industry. Any tipping position at the place gets more tips on average than outside of Disney. I could go on and on about how your statement is so unbelievably different from every other Disney employee I've ever known.
The only shitty part about working at Disney was that my dumb ass lived by the airport, which meant the drive was shitty on a good day with no traffic and using toll roads. On a bad day, with an accident or skipping the toll roads, that was shitty.
Interesting bit of history, Honest Abe was one of the most deceptive military leaders our country has ever known. He used the North's 'high speed' (for the time) rail and instant telegraph communications to spread FUD to his advantage.
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It would be a surprise if you weren't trying to skirt the lines of the rules already, but they KNEW they were riding the line already. They've been rejected more than once before. It shouldn't really be a surprise when they ban it again, especially if it happens to be for reasons they may not have noticed in testing ... like say, notifications that weren't during the 'testing' phase?
This isn't a quality app so this isn't an issue in that respect, no one is going to miss an app that recommends purchases based on who pays them the most. Do you know what payola is?
AppGratis is an app where developers pay money for getting their app in the Top 100 rankings and such. You pay them somewhere between 4k and tens of thousands of dollars, then you set your app to FREE for a day they tell you and the send a message to a certain number of users in order to get you pushed to the ranking you paid for on Apple's lists. Some of these users aren't actual users, just accounts used to inflate the rankings.
This is the absolute scummiest type of 'marketing' in existence without flat out lying. Its manipulation of the system for financial gain based on bribes. Apple banning them is a GOOD THING. Might as well be Payola. Apple doesn't want their rankings or their users tainted by scummy advertising scams.
Walled garden or not, you don't want this type of app or system to exist. Put down your apple pitch fork long enough to see the bigger picture.
Been using Zotero with LaTeX for most of my career
Its not really a carreer when you've been doing it for just a few years. A career involves a lifelong body of work, which you can not possible have in less than 7 years which is how long Zotero has existed.
The fact that you've only used one product of the type in your 'career' re-enforces my point.
Out of ignorance? Yours you mean?
The rest of the world doesn't share your 'OMG LINUX OR DIE' or 'OMG FOSS/LIBRE/FREE AS IN I DON'T PAY FOR IT OR DIE' attitude. Why the fuck should they cater to you and your statistically irrelevant friends?
Why is it so incredibly hard for people such as yourself to understand that not everyone thinks your way is the right way? Just because you think you have a better solution doesn't mean it actually is. Making it easy for 3 people, but more complex for 30,000 people is really fucking stupid, but thats what you're implying they should do.
You are the odd man out and you don't have any reason other than personal politics for it. Deal with it. You created the situation for yourself, no one did it to you.
Also, Zotero is absolute shit, which is why I can safely say you're just fucking fanboying for it rather than making valid points. You even go so far as to point out how shitty it is and then promptly proceed to ignore it. That is but one complaint of thousands, and some of them are downright stupid easy fixes.
And he doesn't support those 'free meals' for Google, Google does. Its not like the IRS is paying the bill for Google.
He's just a whining bitch.
So if I go home and eat my lunch ... no taxes since you don't get taxed on food (maybe in California, you guys are nutjobs ;).
But if I eat it at work, where a cook makes my meal instead of my wife ... that I get taxed for?
Lets see, whats better? Me driving home for lunch, wasting gasoline, road wear and tear and pollution ... or staying at work for lunch?
The UF tax law professor just needs to be shot. He's just a whining bitch. Its not like he has a real job, he's a fucking professor, he doesn't actually work anyway. Two classes a week that he sits in while his assistants do all the work or someone else lectures. String his ass up from a tree until he stops talking. No, I don't like lawyers, especially ones who like to whine about how they are treated unfairly while essentially doing nothing but draining otherwise useful resources from the world and our budget.
So?
I know several Microsoft fanboys who own iPhones. They never use OSX but they have an iPhone.
A few Android users as well. They run Windows even though they have a Linux phone.
You do realize that it is possible to pick products based on their fit for your usage rather than because you're such an ignorant fanboy you must buy the one thats for your team.
Another great addition to your message was the intentional misspelling of those companies. Let me give you a hint, that stopped being cool or funny when you turned 12 or in 1992, which ever came first. It makes it clear you're just spewing fanboy rather than clear rational thoughts.
Not Novel? I was using IR and accelerometers together years before the Wii existed. It was only 'not novel' if you new absolutely nothing about the components involved and how they are used on a regular basis. Note: My usage of IRs and accelorometers on robots for guidance is something I learned from a book years ago, its not something I came up with, its rather well known stuff.
Sure, you can remove Home, but God good luck removing some Google app.
Stop pretending Android is different than everyone else. It isn't, you're just tricked in a different direction and don't realize it yet.
This sounds a bit like old media complaining about new media writers not being professional journalists who graduated and worked their way up from the bottom (read: aren't baby boomers).
You mean because people who've done something their entire lives get annoyed that random people who created a word press account suddenly think because they can post to the Internet that they are journalists?
I can't imagine why. I'd have absolutely no problem giving up my life long career, knowledge and wisdom so some jackass with no experience and barely the ability spell their own name comes in to take it over because the barrier to entry suddenly vanished.
'New media' aren't 'journalists'. Its not because its on the Internet, its because signing up for an account on some web site and spewing your incoherent thought at the rest of us on your blog does not make you a journalist.
Really? Because no one uses your web of trust, we all use certificate authorities which (in theory) verify the integrity for us, kind of like Journals.
Only wanna-be cryptonerds who still fail to understand why self-signed certs are next to worthless still carry on about 'web of trust' crap. Okay, so a few guys who ACTUALLY know cryptography may still be in that camp for legitimate theoretical reasons, but no one considers that acceptable for the real world. Well, okay, clearly you do, so some people do, probably the same people who don't understand why BitCoin is doomed to failure I expect.
Your standards are different than mine, your friends standards are different than both of us, so your trust and your friends trust ratings are meaningless to me. Actually, they are truly meaningless for me because I know (Safe assumption) that you don't actually have a formal standard for what you 'trust', its an ad-hoc system thrown together without thinking it through.
You seem to have a ridiculous definition of 'never' as the wouldn't be produced at all if they 'never' had passengers.
No, it isn't one or the other.
The CORRECT answer is to PULL OVER WHEN YOU NEED TO LOOK AT THE MAP.
Its called reckless driving, and every state in America has some variation of the law on the books. This just makes it hard to argue with the judge about 'reckless' since a specific form of it is on the books.
This law just makes it so when the cop shows the judge his dash cam video of you talking on your phone, you can't argue about it being 'reckless' or not, as the action is illegal even without more arbitrary conditions.
Tell me how many LIVING people you know that viewed paper maps WHILE DRIVING?
Those people typically end up dead fairly quickly.
You pull over, look at the map, figure out where you are going, how to get there, remember those road names and turns, put the map away, then you go do it.
You did not, and DO not read the map WHILE driving. Thats just stupid and if you do it, I hope they revoke your license before you kill someone.
Then you deserve to be pulled over and ticketed. I don't really give a fuck WHAT your doing. If a cop can tell you're doing something other than driving, you deserve a ticket.
The law here is perfectly fine. The guy trying to skirt around the letter of the law in order to avoid the spirit of the law got exactly what he should, beat down.
You can not possibly be paying proper attention to your driving if a cop can tell you're fucking with something in your car. He doesn't have to pull you over for fucking with your phone, every state in the union has a reckless driving type law he can smack you with if he wants.
No California doesn't need to ban it specifically, we just need to hang some fucking lawyers up by their balls so this kind of shit never goes to court.
The only actual fix for the problem is to not make it possible. The end result is going to be that because Americans have zero self control, a law will need to be passed that anything with a GPS connected to it will disable its input controls and displays over a certain speed, with exception for critical features such as gauges and warning lights. Thats the only way this problem will be resolved.
This doesn't just apply to cell phones, but all sorts of devices that may end up distracting the driver. Its not what should happen if we humans acted only slightly less selfishly and waited a few minutes to take a phone call or text message. You aren't that important, I assure you. The people that ARE that important, have someone else driving them AND someone else to answer their phone, email, all other shit.
This prick needs to have his license revoked for life because he doesn't understand how serious driving a car is. We're talking about banning guns because of a couple isolated incidents, but we don't say a fucking thing over the rate of shitty drivers. Fact: War, Suicide, Murder, and all other 'intentional deaths' account for 2.8% of the deaths per year roughly. Automobile Accidents are ranked at 2.1%. You're only slightly more likely to die in War than you are driving your car. And thats US stats, not some country who is actually at war (like being in syria or kenya). The more ignorant drivers we can spank/take off the road, the better.
Again, if a cop can figure out that you were fucking with your phone, it doesn't matter what you were doing, you shouldn't be allowed to drive a car. You do not understand or respect the physics involved and shouldn't be allowed to share the road with those of us who do and do want to continue living. My life is far more important than your retarded SMS, phone call, or map.
You should learn to google. There are multiple publicly documented examples of laser doing just that.
These were conducted in pretty 'ideal' conditions, clear sunny days, and from stationary immobile platforms, but it's been done and verified to work to at least some level.
What about virtual box, virtual iron, parallels, and QEMU drivers just to start? And thats just some of the popular/well known hypervisors.
And what about Bloat? Why not include every driver and software package known to man?
You don't NEED the vmware tools installed, the OS will run without them. You want them installed for better performance and because VMware is shit and won't send an ACPI shutdown command to the guest, only a freaking vmware tools command.
thats the base install? Hell my full Raspian install is smaller than that!
Ubuntu Core is 34MB.
Whats better ... if the submitter of the story had bothered to even google for it ... on the Ubuntu Core page ...
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Core
About half way done the page, under Deploying Ubuntu Core, it links to the documentation for an x86 VM running ubuntu core ...
Than its fairly safe to say you (and other Linux users) have a fairly different meaning of 'standard' than ... well, everyone else in the world.
You don't eat CPU time at idle, thats exactly the opposite of idle. I realize you mean that the daemons sit around eating CPU doing nothing you care about, but I suspect, even on a desktop install of Ubuntu you'll find the CPU sitting at 99.9% idle in top since those daemons are in sleep/wait states and not using any CPU.
Raspian has no CPU in use when even when X is running if you're not doing anything. Daemons swap out and don't waste CPU if they aren't in use and aren't shitty daemons. They do waste swap space though.
No Linux distro on the planet uses the stock kernel. All of them have different locations for many different files. All of them have major patchs to all sorts of 'standard' apps.
You seem to not understand what makes a distro different. If they were all 'standard' you wouldn't have xteen million variations of Linux.
Linux's lack of standardization is repeatedly brought up as one of its largest problems in becoming a more common desktop since software vendors don't want to target a bunch of slightly different distro's to pick up a statistically insignificant portion of the population.
Have you even used more than one Linux distro?
I've done the sync between gmail and Dovecot and Cyrus IMAP.
The 'tags as folders' thing isn't an issue for imap clients as the server tells the client (because its tagged) that the message is deleted.
I can safely say Yahoo is at fault. Having moved many millions of messages myself, there is no reason on Google's side that this 'HAD' to happen.
The Deleted flag is NOT one of the flags that Google doesn't handle properly.
If you simply run IMAPSync on gmail, it will work almost flawlessly, none of the issues Sky has had come up when dealing with Gmail to Dovecot or Cyrus.
They didn't properly handle the migration or they migrated to a shitty provider, either way, both Sky and Yahoo should have their asses handed to them for giving absolutely horrible service to their customers.
No.
A cracker is a cowboy in Florida with a whip that he 'cracks' to encourage his cattle to move on demand.
A honkey is a racial slur for white people.
You probably also think Redneck is a racial slur. Neither Cracker or Redneck are racial slurs, they define a working class of people, race/color is irrelevant.
If you're going to be a bigot, at least get your fucking racism and prejudice right.
I'd bet a weeks pay that you're a liar and no one ever told you to 'get the hell out'.
The fact that you're even pretending it was said brings doubt to you even working there.
As a former Disney employee, you would have been formally informed of policies regarding unapproved language and termination on Disney property. That statement alone would have gotten the person you fired from most positions on the spot.
That happens in HR, not by your boss or trainer.
Your story has too many holes.
I used to work at Disney too.
You're a whining bitch, to put it bluntly.
There is a REASON there are 10 people lined up outside to take your job, it is perhaps the best job you can find at a young age in central florida.
You should be doing it the Disney Way, the Disney Way makes their customers happy? Have you ever BEEN on a Disney vacation as an adult? You will not find a better service regardless of your tastes.
Yes, it was a shit job, as are all jobs for untrained/uneducated workers, like you know ... the majority of Disney's employees.
Working at Disney is no different than working at any unskilled labor position.
Disney doesn't want your dumb ass fucking up their image when you go do something fucking retarded like drink and drive, or go to jail for something and have a mug shot with their logo posted all over the news paper. If you can not understand why your uniform stayed on Disney property, you are indeed too stupid to deserve the job in the first place.
I don't recall the training being demeaning, nor has any of my friends ever mentioned the job as being demeaning in any way. We all have our stories about customers, but Disney is pretty much considered the cream of the crop places to work in the service industry. Any tipping position at the place gets more tips on average than outside of Disney. I could go on and on about how your statement is so unbelievably different from every other Disney employee I've ever known.
The only shitty part about working at Disney was that my dumb ass lived by the airport, which meant the drive was shitty on a good day with no traffic and using toll roads. On a bad day, with an accident or skipping the toll roads, that was shitty.
Interesting bit of history, Honest Abe was one of the most deceptive military leaders our country has ever known. He used the North's 'high speed' (for the time) rail and instant telegraph communications to spread FUD to his advantage.
Honest Abe was far from honest.