The EC was put in place to allow states to disenfranchise their voters. Number of electoral votes was based on population (free people + 3/5 slaves) plus two votes, so a state wasn't "punished" for disenfranchising a majority of their voters. Whereas if votes in Federal election were based on actual votes, states that allowed Blacks and women (yep, NJ did even in the late 1700s) to vote would have a major advantage. The reasons for the EC were shameful and the institution is outdated.
That's not "common sense", that's fucking shameful. I'm fine with penalties for illegal gun possession. I'm NOT fine with jailing people for few years before trial, at the whim of some corrupt cop who may have planted a gun on them. Trials should be fair and speedy, as the Constitution guarantees.
Then again, the trend in NYC is not prosecuting low-level "quality of life" BS crimes as much, so maybe the courts will be less clogged and time to trial will decrease. Bonus points for when (not if) marijuana becomes legal.
No -- there should be tariffs on Chinese goods and services to account for their poor environmental and human rights practices. After all, pollution doesn't respect borders.
Spies are one thing, these are VC scum, which are actually worse. VC scum funding stuff like Uber is undercutting existing businesses with unprofitable businesses that destroy privacy. Also, hot money drives up prices of everything like housing, food, etc in areas where malinvestment is common.
Direct wifi transfer would also be fine. No need for some other asshole's server as the middleman. Also, what's wrong with cables? They're always fast, relatively secure, and not slowed down by reasonable outside interference.
Removable battery? Check! Ability to install custom bootloaders for cloudfree storage? Check! Removable SD card? Check! Price point ($100) low enough to make losing/breaking it not a big deal? Check!
Fortunately, there's a market that "fell from the truck", at least for not. Stolen or counterfeit parts are the best parts, and hopefully they'll be harder to stop from entering the country with the government shutdown...
Well said -- Apple practically invented the walled garden and computing as a prison. Prison is also a very private place (from the public, just not from the guards).
Apple is just great
Nudging users to put their data on iClown vs saving locally, making it harder to use iPhones/iPads with USB or WiFi direct transfer, getting rid of USB ports to make offline external storage more annoying to use. Apple stinks like the rest of them.
Marriot also owns Doubletree -- recently a Black man was ejected from a Doubletree in Portland for not interrupting a phone call with his family to "prove" that he was a guest there. Never mind that he showed his room key to the hotel's rent-a-cop, apparently that wasn't enough.
I can understand the driver's license or passport info -- if you cause damage to the hotel and your card doesn't cover it, they want to know who to bill.
DL actually gives the snooping assholes more information than a passport -- passport doesn't have an address on it, so you can lie about your home address if you want to give as little info as possible.
Because they can and don't have to delete it -- so their systems are set up not to. It should be really deleted after a few days, after it's proven that there's no damage to the hotel from guests.
Using a passport for ID is common in Europe, less so in the US. Sounds like Marriot is due for a good fucking from EU countries, which actually have and enforce privacy laws.
If you plan ahead a bit, you can use Craigslist or similar short-term rental sections. Much less intrusive than things like AirBnB since it's essentally an anonymous transaction.
The advantage of Eastern Europe and central Asia is that some money can sometimes change hands and pesky requirements for things like passports will go byebye.
Bullshit about servicability. I have a Moto phone and Thinkpad, both of which are highly modular and just as functional as their Apple counterparts. A few mm of extra thickness may be less stylish, but I'd hardly call it "compromised."
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Size =/= population.
Free state population was on average higher than slave state population in 1780.
Women had suffrage in NJ from 1776 to 1807.
The EC was put in place to allow states to disenfranchise their voters. Number of electoral votes was based on population (free people + 3/5 slaves) plus two votes, so a state wasn't "punished" for disenfranchising a majority of their voters. Whereas if votes in Federal election were based on actual votes, states that allowed Blacks and women (yep, NJ did even in the late 1700s) to vote would have a major advantage. The reasons for the EC were shameful and the institution is outdated.
That's not "common sense", that's fucking shameful. I'm fine with penalties for illegal gun possession. I'm NOT fine with jailing people for few years before trial, at the whim of some corrupt cop who may have planted a gun on them. Trials should be fair and speedy, as the Constitution guarantees.
Then again, the trend in NYC is not prosecuting low-level "quality of life" BS crimes as much, so maybe the courts will be less clogged and time to trial will decrease. Bonus points for when (not if) marijuana becomes legal.
By making the goods too expensive to buy and shifting economics in favor of either local manufacture or repair/reuse.
No -- there should be tariffs on Chinese goods and services to account for their poor environmental and human rights practices. After all, pollution doesn't respect borders.
Spies are one thing, these are VC scum, which are actually worse. VC scum funding stuff like Uber is undercutting existing businesses with unprofitable businesses that destroy privacy. Also, hot money drives up prices of everything like housing, food, etc in areas where malinvestment is common.
Good. I'm no fan of Trump, but the sooner Chinese hot money is pulled out of the markets, the better. It just drives up prices and causes inflation.
Direct wifi transfer would also be fine. No need for some other asshole's server as the middleman. Also, what's wrong with cables? They're always fast, relatively secure, and not slowed down by reasonable outside interference.
Using Someone Else's Server(tm) is a shitty kludge. Direct transfer or go home.
I have exactly what I want... Moto G4 Play.
Removable battery? Check!
Ability to install custom bootloaders for cloudfree storage? Check!
Removable SD card? Check!
Price point ($100) low enough to make losing/breaking it not a big deal? Check!
Tim Cook can go fellate someone.
What if you don't want said files on Apple's servers? If it can't be copied cloudfree, it's worthless for privacy.
None. Motorola allows bootloader unlocking, so I can install vanilla Android or a cloudfree ROM without much effort.
Fortunately, there's a market that "fell from the truck", at least for not. Stolen or counterfeit parts are the best parts, and hopefully they'll be harder to stop from entering the country with the government shutdown...
Well said -- Apple practically invented the walled garden and computing as a prison. Prison is also a very private place (from the public, just not from the guards).
But Apple is cooool. MUST HAVE! No one will date me without the latest iDevice... waaaaaaaaaa!
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Apple is just great Nudging users to put their data on iClown vs saving locally, making it harder to use iPhones/iPads with USB or WiFi direct transfer, getting rid of USB ports to make offline external storage more annoying to use. Apple stinks like the rest of them.
Marriot also owns Doubletree -- recently a Black man was ejected from a Doubletree in Portland for not interrupting a phone call with his family to "prove" that he was a guest there. Never mind that he showed his room key to the hotel's rent-a-cop, apparently that wasn't enough.
I can understand the driver's license or passport info -- if you cause damage to the hotel and your card doesn't cover it, they want to know who to bill.
DL actually gives the snooping assholes more information than a passport -- passport doesn't have an address on it, so you can lie about your home address if you want to give as little info as possible.
Because they can and don't have to delete it -- so their systems are set up not to. It should be really deleted after a few days, after it's proven that there's no damage to the hotel from guests.
Using a passport for ID is common in Europe, less so in the US. Sounds like Marriot is due for a good fucking from EU countries, which actually have and enforce privacy laws.
If you plan ahead a bit, you can use Craigslist or similar short-term rental sections. Much less intrusive than things like AirBnB since it's essentally an anonymous transaction.
The advantage of Eastern Europe and central Asia is that some money can sometimes change hands and pesky requirements for things like passports will go byebye.
Bullshit about servicability. I have a Moto phone and Thinkpad, both of which are highly modular and just as functional as their Apple counterparts. A few mm of extra thickness may be less stylish, but I'd hardly call it "compromised."