You can require photo IDs all you want. But if you do, you have to ensure that everyone eligible to vote can get one without hurdles. This means not charging for them, not reducing the number of places that can issue them in areas where you don't like the way people vote, and not demanding ridiculous supporting documentation that few people would readily have to issue one.
Russia doesn't give a fuck about H1B visas and immigration. If anything, they are considered harmful, because they provide an avenue for "brain drain".
On the other hand, they would very much like US to get into a trade war with China (which would force Chinese to cooperate with Russia more seriously), and to abandon its NATO allies in Europe.
Russia is a very different story, their economy is based largely on exploitation of natural resources, mostly oil. As John McCain put it "Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country". They have little on the way of private Capital investment, the linchpin of a Capitalist system
It was only under Brezhnev that USSR made exploitation of its natural resources the staple of its budget.
What's truly amazing is that AGW is apparently now somehow related to social justice, in the minds of some people.
Although I guess that's the expected end result of increasingly paranoid conspiracy theories that are needed to explain all the things that do not work as they want.
Your mention of corporate policies for mail deletion is key here. If emails were deleted in a secure wipe manner as part of a routine schedule for that sort of thing, we have to assume no foul play. But if it was a one-off thing, and especially if it was after they knew there was an investigation, it's very suspicious.
There should be no laws criminalizing mere possession of any substance intended for consumption, in a society that respects bodily autonomy, period. Possession with intent to distribute, and especially for commercial purposes, is another matter.
Prostitution is involuntarily precisely because it's illegal in and of itself - since prostitutes cannot resort to police and courts to have the same protection from the society as other occupations. In countries which have properly legalized that industry, like New Zealand, the pimp problem has diminished significantly, because prostitutes can now just report anyone attempting to pimp to police, without fear for themselves. I would strongly recommend studying NZ experience with prostitution in general, and comparing it to Sweden (where the "ban it and crack down on it" model has been followed for a long time).
IMO, the big difference between now and, say, 10 years ago, is that the gap between "real DEs" like KDE and Gnome, and "back to the basics" minimalist DEs and WMs (Openbox etc) has been filled. It used to be that you had to pick between "it just works" - but with all the bells and whistles, too - and hand-editing config files.
Now, though, there's Xfce, LXDE, and even, to some extent, MATE, to fill the it's-not-fancy-but-it-works niche. Xfce in particular is really nice - I would say that feature-wise, it's about where Gnome 2 was (which is a sweet spot for many), except with fewer bundled stock apps, and more configurability with more sensible defaults. So if you just want to get work done, and want a traditional desktop environment, it gives you that with minimal overhead, compared to Gnome and KDE.
The "whom are you visiting" and "where you're staying" questions are run of the mill when visiting another country. A foreigner visiting US will often hear the same. Which is why, when you actually are visiting someone, it's common to ask them to write an invitation letter in advance detailing all this - usually makes it much faster when you show it.
I actually meant the opposite of what you think I intended. When you look at turnout of his supporters, it was dismal. All that "enthusiasm" was wasted on rallies and such, and if those people have actually showed to vote with the same enthusiasm, he would have the numbers he needed to make it much more competitive. But, as usual, millennials under-performed when it came to doing rather than talking in politics.
Analogies don't have to be perfect, you know. Saying that Trump is like Hitler in some (albeit important) respects is not the saying that he's exactly the same.
And why shouldn't such an analogy be used, if it's accurate? Is there something special about Hitler in particular?
Now you're switching goalposts - "top cause of repairs" is very, very different from "top complaint".
I know quite a lot of people who use smartphones - not techies, just your regular casual users. Do you know how many of them have ever complained about their phone dying due to exposure to water? Zero. But they do complain about plenty of other stuff, mostly software.
The nice thing about Android is that with USB OTG that most mid-to-high end phones have these days, there's an open interface to attach pretty much any kind of hardware. Including, say, a headphone jack receptacle.
Once you start looking at things like capital gains, you get the "Warren Buffet effect", where he pays less, percentage-wise, than his secretary does.
And the scam is that they have convinced so many people that capital gains are different from sweat-of-the-brow income, and deserve to be taxed lower. They don't.
If they really did, they would be silly to dump everything they have on her - I mean, at this point, they have to realize that odds aren't exactly in Trump's favor, and I seriously doubt that anything in those emails would prove to be a sufficiently large skeleton to change that. It would make sense for them to hedge their bets, and leave something to try to blackmail her with.
In fact, that itself is an interesting tactic. They only need to dump enough info to establish certainty that they did in fact hack her emails, and then hint that there are really damning things in there that they are intentionally not releasing before the election. The prospect of having something like that hang over the president ought to give quite a few people pause.
Saying that lies are lies and bullshit is bullshit is not bias - it is professionalism. I'm glad that media is finally doing that for a change, instead of the usual "balanced reporting" along the lines of "some people claim that world is 6000 years old, but others disagree".
It's really unfortunate that it took someone like Trump to get us there, though.
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Trump was also the only candidate who has said that he will deport all the illegals, in no uncertain terms, many times.
Right until he said that he won't.
You can require photo IDs all you want. But if you do, you have to ensure that everyone eligible to vote can get one without hurdles. This means not charging for them, not reducing the number of places that can issue them in areas where you don't like the way people vote, and not demanding ridiculous supporting documentation that few people would readily have to issue one.
Russia doesn't give a fuck about H1B visas and immigration. If anything, they are considered harmful, because they provide an avenue for "brain drain".
On the other hand, they would very much like US to get into a trade war with China (which would force Chinese to cooperate with Russia more seriously), and to abandon its NATO allies in Europe.
Where exactly is that "everywhere else"?
Most places outside of US either have voter registration, or they require you to show ID to vote. Sometimes both.
Neither should we (and insofar as Apple is a Western company, it's also "we") pressure their labor market to cut costs.
Russia is a very different story, their economy is based largely on exploitation of natural resources, mostly oil. As John McCain put it "Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country". They have little on the way of private Capital investment, the linchpin of a Capitalist system
It was only under Brezhnev that USSR made exploitation of its natural resources the staple of its budget.
What's truly amazing is that AGW is apparently now somehow related to social justice, in the minds of some people.
Although I guess that's the expected end result of increasingly paranoid conspiracy theories that are needed to explain all the things that do not work as they want.
Aren't birthdays handled by systemd these days? ~
Your mention of corporate policies for mail deletion is key here. If emails were deleted in a secure wipe manner as part of a routine schedule for that sort of thing, we have to assume no foul play. But if it was a one-off thing, and especially if it was after they knew there was an investigation, it's very suspicious.
If you're a Ron Paul supporter voting for Trump, I fear that "confused" is rather an understatement of your mental state.
Wait, are you serious? One really can't get past a misbehaving startup service with Ctrl+C (or some other keystroke) when using systemd?
There should be no laws criminalizing mere possession of any substance intended for consumption, in a society that respects bodily autonomy, period. Possession with intent to distribute, and especially for commercial purposes, is another matter.
Prostitution is involuntarily precisely because it's illegal in and of itself - since prostitutes cannot resort to police and courts to have the same protection from the society as other occupations. In countries which have properly legalized that industry, like New Zealand, the pimp problem has diminished significantly, because prostitutes can now just report anyone attempting to pimp to police, without fear for themselves. I would strongly recommend studying NZ experience with prostitution in general, and comparing it to Sweden (where the "ban it and crack down on it" model has been followed for a long time).
IMO, the big difference between now and, say, 10 years ago, is that the gap between "real DEs" like KDE and Gnome, and "back to the basics" minimalist DEs and WMs (Openbox etc) has been filled. It used to be that you had to pick between "it just works" - but with all the bells and whistles, too - and hand-editing config files.
Now, though, there's Xfce, LXDE, and even, to some extent, MATE, to fill the it's-not-fancy-but-it-works niche. Xfce in particular is really nice - I would say that feature-wise, it's about where Gnome 2 was (which is a sweet spot for many), except with fewer bundled stock apps, and more configurability with more sensible defaults. So if you just want to get work done, and want a traditional desktop environment, it gives you that with minimal overhead, compared to Gnome and KDE.
The "whom are you visiting" and "where you're staying" questions are run of the mill when visiting another country. A foreigner visiting US will often hear the same. Which is why, when you actually are visiting someone, it's common to ask them to write an invitation letter in advance detailing all this - usually makes it much faster when you show it.
I actually meant the opposite of what you think I intended. When you look at turnout of his supporters, it was dismal. All that "enthusiasm" was wasted on rallies and such, and if those people have actually showed to vote with the same enthusiasm, he would have the numbers he needed to make it much more competitive. But, as usual, millennials under-performed when it came to doing rather than talking in politics.
Analogies don't have to be perfect, you know. Saying that Trump is like Hitler in some (albeit important) respects is not the saying that he's exactly the same.
And why shouldn't such an analogy be used, if it's accurate? Is there something special about Hitler in particular?
Now you're switching goalposts - "top cause of repairs" is very, very different from "top complaint".
I know quite a lot of people who use smartphones - not techies, just your regular casual users. Do you know how many of them have ever complained about their phone dying due to exposure to water? Zero. But they do complain about plenty of other stuff, mostly software.
The nice thing about Android is that with USB OTG that most mid-to-high end phones have these days, there's an open interface to attach pretty much any kind of hardware. Including, say, a headphone jack receptacle.
If you only look at personal income, sure.
Once you start looking at things like capital gains, you get the "Warren Buffet effect", where he pays less, percentage-wise, than his secretary does.
And the scam is that they have convinced so many people that capital gains are different from sweat-of-the-brow income, and deserve to be taxed lower. They don't.
Informative as usual from Rei. Slashdot really ought to start paying you for comments like these.
There's no problem with censorship itself.
The problem is that it was all done secretly, instead of openly saying, "yeah, we're going to filter out abusive questions".
Private censorship is fine, but there is an expectation to be open about it - so that we know in what way the content they present may be biased.
If they really did, they would be silly to dump everything they have on her - I mean, at this point, they have to realize that odds aren't exactly in Trump's favor, and I seriously doubt that anything in those emails would prove to be a sufficiently large skeleton to change that. It would make sense for them to hedge their bets, and leave something to try to blackmail her with.
In fact, that itself is an interesting tactic. They only need to dump enough info to establish certainty that they did in fact hack her emails, and then hint that there are really damning things in there that they are intentionally not releasing before the election. The prospect of having something like that hang over the president ought to give quite a few people pause.
Saying that lies are lies and bullshit is bullshit is not bias - it is professionalism. I'm glad that media is finally doing that for a change, instead of the usual "balanced reporting" along the lines of "some people claim that world is 6000 years old, but others disagree".
It's really unfortunate that it took someone like Trump to get us there, though.
Sanders absolutely had a chance, if you look at the turnout among his supporters.