I have lived all my life in Spain, so obviously Spanish is my mother language, and I'm seriously tired of all the idiots who try to promote this supposedly "gender neutral" language, ending words in -@, -x or -os/as. The first two are unpronunceable, the last one is way too cumbersome. I wish they would stop butchering our language.
If you can convince media personalities in the US from breaking into hyper exaggerated, ultra accented Spanish pronunciation of Spanish names while reporting otherwise in an American accent, we have a deal.
Imagine a law that says only people older than 20 can drink alcohol, and then not allowing the bars to check IDs to make sure all the people they serve are at least 21. Would you still argue that there is any law against 18 year olds drinking? Any USEFUL law?
When people oppose simple logic laws like these, I know they only care about being in opposition. They cry in hysterics that the "man" is trying to suppress people of color from voting as though the laws do not apply to everyone. Democrats had a total shitfit when the Ohio law to remove old data from voter rolls was approved by the Supreme Court. To be removed, you had to fail to vote for at least four successive years worth of elections and ignore notice from the Board of Elections. And if they are purged, they have to - horrors - re-register to vote just like they had to do initially.
The implication is clear. You're too stupid to figure out how to maintain or reinstate your voter registration, but not too stupid to vote.
I'm pretty sure the primary purpose of Facebook is to share pro-Trump posts. That's one of the many reasons I left.
I guess it depends on your "friends." I only have an account to keep in touch with my high school classmates and I have two that relentlessly post pro-Trump stuff. I have about 20 or so that post anti-Trump stuff relentlessly. I have considered blocking them both, but I only log on about once a month. It never fails though, you would think I log on every day because the crap is always exactly the same from the same suspects every single time.
I don't care about your damn dog.
I don't care where you went out to dinner last night.
I get it, you hate Trump.
I get it, you love Trump.
I don't find your humorous meme shitpost funny.
Sorry your husband/wife/boyfriend/girlfriend left you.
Go see doctor and quit complaining.
And I can absolutely concur. When you don't log in for a few days, they send emails at least one or twice a day reminding you of "all you missed."
I find it hilarious that you accuse the OP of being in his "safe space" yet your position is to create a safe space free of those viewpoints that you disagree with. The "progressive" position is totally self unaware.
Yup. We've got that in the US, too. Luckily, we can still choose to have a cashier do it at every grocery store I've ever been to.
My kids always badger me to use those self checkout lines. I tell them that if I wanted to scan and bag groceries, I'd get a job there and get paid for it. I ask them if they feel like volunteering to corral all the carts in the parking lot and stocking the shelves for free too.
I was at Red Robin and the power went out for about 60 seconds during the busiest part of the dinner rush. I was sitting at the bar waiting on a table. When power was restored the computers rebooted into some "Aloha" software from NCR under Windows 7. I left after 30 minutes because the computers still had not recovered and they couldn't take any orders, couldn't cash anyone out and couldn't seat anyone (since their seating reservation software was down and they had no idea who was next). 60 seconds of power failure and apparently they didn't even have a simple UPS for their critical systems. I suppose the table management data was totally lost since I never got my "table is ready" text message.
I do the same thing. Dropbox and GoDaddy are my worst offenders. I realize DropBox was hacked, but I changed my GoDaddy account email contact twice now and I still get Spam on it.
Bingo. So if Apple redesigns it, are they going to raise the price, or lower it? Sure you can argue that Apple should lower the price, but that won't happen because price isn't only based on the cost of the components.
I think you misunderstand. I believe the complaint is that Apple is currently selling computer hardware using a CPU that has dropped in cost over time while keeping their selling price point unchanged. Added to that fact, fixed costs over time should drop as engineering, development, and tooling costs are paid for. Nobody expects Apple to sell "new design" hardware for less that the older models.
Apple has great vendor lock in since their computers are not easily substitutable, but eventually that can be overcome if the cost/value proposition goes too high.
But then she would have to care for them. She was tired of being a wife and a mother. We both thought we had the better end of the bargain. Despite how hard it was when she first walked out on us, we all agree now that it was the best thing that could have possibly happened.
Nope. I have custody of the kids so she is supposed to pay me. I haven't seen anything in three months but she usually goes about six months before the state starts bugging her. She only pays a very small pittance anyway. It was an mutual agreement to keep her out of my retirement accounts.
She is now living on her current husband's disability check which he gets from milking the system with a non-existent problem. They both refuse to work and truly deserve each other. Funny thing is that they both had good paying jobs when they met, but now they are each trying to out lazy the other.
In the case of my ex, you can't help someone who won't help themselves. She could - and has in the past - make very good money and carry great insurance in the health care industry. She chooses not to work because she does not like to be told what to do. She works only as a last resort, an issue which caused much marital stress when we were together.
Usually some 90 year old with a long line waiting behind them in a crowded store... Of course, the entire check has to be filled out in perfect copperplate cursive and the signature is comparable to something you would see on the US Declaration of Independence. By the time Nana is done writing her masterpiece and discussing her life history with the cashier, other lines have moved 10 customers through.
Christ! I see you buy groceries at the same store I do. The thing that gets me is that they stand there and only fish out their checkbook after the cashier gives them the total as though it never occurred to them that they would actually have to pay for it.
There are some who are technically homeless through no fault of their own. My son has a friend (only 17 years old) whose father died of natural causes a few years ago and his mother died in a car wreck last year. He has no family other than his younger brother. He is couch surfing at friends' homes. HOWEVER, he works and is still trying to save money to get his life started after graduation next year. I do feel bad for him.
That being said, I agree with your assessment of the bulk of the others. For example, my ex-wife who is a licensed RN refuses to work despite being frequently on the edge of homelessness. I had to contact her sister to help her because I suspected she was a couple weeks away from being thrown out before. Her most recent job was months ago when she needed to pay a bill that was nearly a year overdue. Her employment lasted a grand total of one week before she quit; just long enough to pay her bill. Yet, she wallows around in self pity complaining she can't afford to get health insurance.
I don't have any reason to defend a fictitious cop, but this seems like an example of the old "one should never attribute to malice that which can adequately be attributed to incompetence".
Isn't that the point? Are you willing to bet your freedom or pass judgment on the freedom of another human being based upon the sworn testimony of an incompetent person gathering the evidence against him? That's the best case scenario. Worse case is outright falsification.
Or you just do not care that people re-sell something that is theirs. If I buy a phone, I should be able to resell it. If I buy a ticket to a concert, I should be able to sell it.
Scalpers are speculators, not resellers. They are no different from the scum that drive up oil prices on speculation of potential "unrest" in Iran and Venezuela or general dislike of Russia among the masses. How did you like that nice housing bubble recession in 2008? Speculators from banks to appraisers to buyers all got caught with their dicks hanging out when it was no longer sustainable and guess who got to suffer for it? Don't confuse scalpers with regular ticket holders who find out they can't - or no longer want to - go.
Until Weinsteins indiscretions came out recently I didn't know who he was and wouldn't have cared if someone told me.
The only reason I knew who he was from his earlier company Miramax and the only reason I remember is because the name was a portmanteau of his mother and father (Miriam & Maxwell??). When he was kicked out of the company I thought at the time that it must have been a major boot to the nards to lose the company you built and named after your parents.
Moron. No one ever said yelling fire in a crowded theatre was ok.
I said it and I'll say it again. If someone sees a fire in any theater where I am in attendance, I greatly appreciate them letting me know so I can exit quickly.
1) Private prison execs chatting congress people about to pass a law that increases mass incarceration?
2) Military contractors being given the heads up on what bills are going to be sponsored that call for more armaments?
3) Private chemical or other possibly environmentally destructive companies told ahead of time of repeals of regulations?
Seems like in those cases you VERY MUCH do care about the insider trading, it is the impetuous for all the previously described ills. As the old saying goes "Follow the money".
I think the point is that in the "big picture", giving the FBI the ability to easily crack phones to solve and prosecute those very few cases of insider trading that could not otherwise be solved without cracking phones is not, on balance, worth the cost of giving up encryption.
Seriously? That's idiotic. What if you are caring for an infant? You can't bring a kid out in -20 weather to sit in a cold car, and you can't leave them unattended to sit in the car while it warms up. Fuck that law.
You're preaching to the choir. In practical terms, it's rarely enforced unless someone has their car stolen. Then the cops add insult to injury by fining the victim.
Except, here in Belgium it is also illegal to leave your car behind unlocked.
Yes, misuse should be punished, but negligence as well...
And in my state it is illegal to start your car and let it warm up in the driveway unless you sit inside it. It can be -20F and covered in ice, but you can be fined for "puffing" your car. Just because something is illegal, doesn't mean it should be illegal.
I've been using NIMH batteries for decades and have never had a problem with a device not working properly due to under-voltage.
Most modern electronics are designed with NIMHs in mind. Some devices actually work better because despite the lower voltage, NIMHs have lower internal resistance too.
I bought NiMH batteries specifically for my four AA battery, Canon point-and-shoot camera. With fully charged batteries, the camera turns on, displays the low battery symbol, and shuts back down. They might work fine for flashlights and such, but they are not suitable for everything.
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Since the police had a search warrant, I am not sure there is a constitutional argument to be made.
A search warrant grants the right to conduct a search, it does not guarantee a successful search.
I have lived all my life in Spain, so obviously Spanish is my mother language, and I'm seriously tired of all the idiots who try to promote this supposedly "gender neutral" language, ending words in -@, -x or -os/as. The first two are unpronunceable, the last one is way too cumbersome. I wish they would stop butchering our language.
If you can convince media personalities in the US from breaking into hyper exaggerated, ultra accented Spanish pronunciation of Spanish names while reporting otherwise in an American accent, we have a deal.
Imagine a law that says only people older than 20 can drink alcohol, and then not allowing the bars to check IDs to make sure all the people they serve are at least 21. Would you still argue that there is any law against 18 year olds drinking? Any USEFUL law?
When people oppose simple logic laws like these, I know they only care about being in opposition. They cry in hysterics that the "man" is trying to suppress people of color from voting as though the laws do not apply to everyone. Democrats had a total shitfit when the Ohio law to remove old data from voter rolls was approved by the Supreme Court. To be removed, you had to fail to vote for at least four successive years worth of elections and ignore notice from the Board of Elections. And if they are purged, they have to - horrors - re-register to vote just like they had to do initially.
The implication is clear. You're too stupid to figure out how to maintain or reinstate your voter registration, but not too stupid to vote.
Your code is incomplete. You forgot:
void ShitAllOverYard (void);
I'm pretty sure the primary purpose of Facebook is to share pro-Trump posts. That's one of the many reasons I left.
I guess it depends on your "friends." I only have an account to keep in touch with my high school classmates and I have two that relentlessly post pro-Trump stuff. I have about 20 or so that post anti-Trump stuff relentlessly. I have considered blocking them both, but I only log on about once a month. It never fails though, you would think I log on every day because the crap is always exactly the same from the same suspects every single time.
I don't care about your damn dog.
I don't care where you went out to dinner last night.
I get it, you hate Trump.
I get it, you love Trump.
I don't find your humorous meme shitpost funny.
Sorry your husband/wife/boyfriend/girlfriend left you.
Go see doctor and quit complaining.
And I can absolutely concur. When you don't log in for a few days, they send emails at least one or twice a day reminding you of "all you missed."
I find it hilarious that you accuse the OP of being in his "safe space" yet your position is to create a safe space free of those viewpoints that you disagree with. The "progressive" position is totally self unaware.
Yup. We've got that in the US, too. Luckily, we can still choose to have a cashier do it at every grocery store I've ever been to.
My kids always badger me to use those self checkout lines. I tell them that if I wanted to scan and bag groceries, I'd get a job there and get paid for it. I ask them if they feel like volunteering to corral all the carts in the parking lot and stocking the shelves for free too.
True story...
I was at Red Robin and the power went out for about 60 seconds during the busiest part of the dinner rush. I was sitting at the bar waiting on a table. When power was restored the computers rebooted into some "Aloha" software from NCR under Windows 7. I left after 30 minutes because the computers still had not recovered and they couldn't take any orders, couldn't cash anyone out and couldn't seat anyone (since their seating reservation software was down and they had no idea who was next). 60 seconds of power failure and apparently they didn't even have a simple UPS for their critical systems. I suppose the table management data was totally lost since I never got my "table is ready" text message.
I do the same thing. Dropbox and GoDaddy are my worst offenders. I realize DropBox was hacked, but I changed my GoDaddy account email contact twice now and I still get Spam on it.
Bingo. So if Apple redesigns it, are they going to raise the price, or lower it? Sure you can argue that Apple should lower the price, but that won't happen because price isn't only based on the cost of the components.
I think you misunderstand. I believe the complaint is that Apple is currently selling computer hardware using a CPU that has dropped in cost over time while keeping their selling price point unchanged. Added to that fact, fixed costs over time should drop as engineering, development, and tooling costs are paid for. Nobody expects Apple to sell "new design" hardware for less that the older models.
Apple has great vendor lock in since their computers are not easily substitutable, but eventually that can be overcome if the cost/value proposition goes too high.
But then she would have to care for them. She was tired of being a wife and a mother. We both thought we had the better end of the bargain. Despite how hard it was when she first walked out on us, we all agree now that it was the best thing that could have possibly happened.
Nope. I have custody of the kids so she is supposed to pay me. I haven't seen anything in three months but she usually goes about six months before the state starts bugging her. She only pays a very small pittance anyway. It was an mutual agreement to keep her out of my retirement accounts.
She is now living on her current husband's disability check which he gets from milking the system with a non-existent problem. They both refuse to work and truly deserve each other. Funny thing is that they both had good paying jobs when they met, but now they are each trying to out lazy the other.
In the case of my ex, you can't help someone who won't help themselves. She could - and has in the past - make very good money and carry great insurance in the health care industry. She chooses not to work because she does not like to be told what to do. She works only as a last resort, an issue which caused much marital stress when we were together.
Usually some 90 year old with a long line waiting behind them in a crowded store... Of course, the entire check has to be filled out in perfect copperplate cursive and the signature is comparable to something you would see on the US Declaration of Independence. By the time Nana is done writing her masterpiece and discussing her life history with the cashier, other lines have moved 10 customers through.
Christ! I see you buy groceries at the same store I do. The thing that gets me is that they stand there and only fish out their checkbook after the cashier gives them the total as though it never occurred to them that they would actually have to pay for it.
There are some who are technically homeless through no fault of their own. My son has a friend (only 17 years old) whose father died of natural causes a few years ago and his mother died in a car wreck last year. He has no family other than his younger brother. He is couch surfing at friends' homes. HOWEVER, he works and is still trying to save money to get his life started after graduation next year. I do feel bad for him.
That being said, I agree with your assessment of the bulk of the others. For example, my ex-wife who is a licensed RN refuses to work despite being frequently on the edge of homelessness. I had to contact her sister to help her because I suspected she was a couple weeks away from being thrown out before. Her most recent job was months ago when she needed to pay a bill that was nearly a year overdue. Her employment lasted a grand total of one week before she quit; just long enough to pay her bill. Yet, she wallows around in self pity complaining she can't afford to get health insurance.
I don't have any reason to defend a fictitious cop, but this seems like an example of the old "one should never attribute to malice that which can adequately be attributed to incompetence".
Isn't that the point? Are you willing to bet your freedom or pass judgment on the freedom of another human being based upon the sworn testimony of an incompetent person gathering the evidence against him? That's the best case scenario. Worse case is outright falsification.
Now explain to me why Canonical wouldn't permanently ban the publisher for damaging Canonical's reputation and business?
Or you just do not care that people re-sell something that is theirs. If I buy a phone, I should be able to resell it. If I buy a ticket to a concert, I should be able to sell it.
Scalpers are speculators, not resellers. They are no different from the scum that drive up oil prices on speculation of potential "unrest" in Iran and Venezuela or general dislike of Russia among the masses. How did you like that nice housing bubble recession in 2008? Speculators from banks to appraisers to buyers all got caught with their dicks hanging out when it was no longer sustainable and guess who got to suffer for it? Don't confuse scalpers with regular ticket holders who find out they can't - or no longer want to - go.
Don't blame the browser, blame the web sites creator who don't care about cleaning their junk.
I don't want to know if the site creator cleans his junk or not. That's a problem for his significant other.
The only reason I knew who he was from his earlier company Miramax and the only reason I remember is because the name was a portmanteau of his mother and father (Miriam & Maxwell??). When he was kicked out of the company I thought at the time that it must have been a major boot to the nards to lose the company you built and named after your parents.
Moron. No one ever said yelling fire in a crowded theatre was ok.
I said it and I'll say it again. If someone sees a fire in any theater where I am in attendance, I greatly appreciate them letting me know so I can exit quickly.
What about when the insider trading is
1) Private prison execs chatting congress people about to pass a law that increases mass incarceration? 2) Military contractors being given the heads up on what bills are going to be sponsored that call for more armaments? 3) Private chemical or other possibly environmentally destructive companies told ahead of time of repeals of regulations?
Seems like in those cases you VERY MUCH do care about the insider trading, it is the impetuous for all the previously described ills. As the old saying goes "Follow the money".
I think the point is that in the "big picture", giving the FBI the ability to easily crack phones to solve and prosecute those very few cases of insider trading that could not otherwise be solved without cracking phones is not, on balance, worth the cost of giving up encryption.
You're preaching to the choir. In practical terms, it's rarely enforced unless someone has their car stolen. Then the cops add insult to injury by fining the victim.
Except, here in Belgium it is also illegal to leave your car behind unlocked.
Yes, misuse should be punished, but negligence as well...
And in my state it is illegal to start your car and let it warm up in the driveway unless you sit inside it. It can be -20F and covered in ice, but you can be fined for "puffing" your car. Just because something is illegal, doesn't mean it should be illegal.
I've been using NIMH batteries for decades and have never had a problem with a device not working properly due to under-voltage.
Most modern electronics are designed with NIMHs in mind. Some devices actually work better because despite the lower voltage, NIMHs have lower internal resistance too.
I bought NiMH batteries specifically for my four AA battery, Canon point-and-shoot camera. With fully charged batteries, the camera turns on, displays the low battery symbol, and shuts back down. They might work fine for flashlights and such, but they are not suitable for everything.