But but! Hillary's a murderer!!!! It's totally true!!!! And the Clinton Foundation is fronts for the Russian Mob or Asian Triads or something!!!! I heard that, so it's got to be true!
I have a different idea. I think Congress should pass a law saying such information always remains your property, and that every access of it for the purposes of making profit by any authorized entity must see you paid 50% of the gross revenue generated. Unauthorized access sees you paid 95%. Lack of payment by any company is regarded as theft, and will be prosecuted as a criminal offense.
Well, what else were they going to do? The investors allowed Chen to play a sort of bizarre version of fantasy football, except with a real business, instead of just demanding they're money and going home. Now, the company has wasted billions, sold off many of its assets, laid off a large percentage of its R&D staff, and is likely within a couple of years of total financial dissolution. All that's left is to try to keep the ship afloat by strategic lawsuits. Soon, once those don't bring the bottom line up, they'll just start madly flailing about, suing big players in the hopes that some of the big fish just buy them off, or buy them outright.
Blackberry stopped being relevant five years ago. The fact that it even still exists demonstrates the utter stupidity of investors.
I work for a contractor for a Provincial government, with a significant amount of the money for that contract actually flowing from the Federal government, and the contract language is explicit; no confidential or personal data is to be stored, or even accessed, outside of Canada.
I actually talked to Google about three years ago and asked if they could guarantee the Google Docs (now Google Drive) cloud could be located on Canadian servers, and they said that couldn't and that they had no plans to. It's my understanding that Microsoft, on the other hand, has conceded to this for OneDrive, so I expect that if Google hasn't already moved in that direction, they will soon.
As it is, we're getting requests from a lot of staff for some sort of Cloud solution, as usage scenarios grow beyond VPNs and RDP.
I'd love to believe that Deadpool will signal studios to start making superhero films for adults. I doubt it, though. I'm even afraid of what the next Deadpool will be like, likely with a bigger budget which means everything will be filtered through a pack of accountants and marketers, which will likely render it an emasculated impotent copy of what was for me one of the best theater experiences I've had in about a quarter century.
The whole audience was laughing out loud when I went. It was just so fantastic to finally have a theater experience again that felt like a social gathering.
I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it.
One of my favorite all time reviews was Roger Ebert's review for Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, which starts with:
"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves a dog-like robot humping the leg of the heroine. Such are the meager joys. If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.
The brilliance of the original Ghostbusters was that it actually had, visually at least, some pretty fucking scary scenes; a possessed Sigourney Weaver levitating, a pretty scary looking canine monsters sitting in front of a temple every bit as freaky as anything out of a Indiana Jones film. But these scenes are always offset by a damned fucking good script that keeps them lighthearted and sardonic. Bill Murray is a godsend in these kinds of films, but kudos to all the cast, in particular Rick Moranis, who somehow simultaneously makes the fearsome Vinz Clortho the Keymaster seem like accountant to the demigods.
I really wish Hollywood was still capable of making a film like Ghostbusters, that could so cleverly balance such seemingly incompatible elements in one film, sometimes in one bloody shot.
Yes exactly. If a critic thinks it's a bad movie, they'll write that it's a bad movie. If a bunch of critics give shitty reviews, then a bunch of critics think it's a shitty movie. Demanding critics be silenced because they might hurt a movie's prospects at the box office makes about as much sense as authors demanding bad reviews of their books be taken down because it might hurt book sales.
Besides, I'm pretty dubious as to how much critics' views even matter. The critics largely seem to think most of Michael Bay's films are dire hunks of steaming donkey shit (a view I share), and yet they appear to be licenses to print money, so clearly a helluva lot of people who go to the movies either don't read reviews, or don't give a shit.
And heck, I'm one of them. Lots of critics hated Coneheads and Mars Attacks back in the day, and I confess, every time I watch either, I laugh my ass off, so fuck the critics on those ones.
Why are you so worried about Liberal media? The Koch's won't back him, and now Meg Whitman is backing Clinton. Trump is literally hemorrhaging support. But hey, let's blame the media and Clinton, because that's a lot easier than looking at how absolutely idiotic the man is behaving.
So, tell me, does this change that their son was a US soldier killed overseas? And do you actually have some evidence that they are partaking of corrupt activities? Or is this just your need to smear to defend the vile and lunatic candidate the Republicans chose?
The neat thing about Logo is you could start out that way, and then, at least with the dialects I played with in grade five and six, you also had procedural programming concepts like recursion. I remember when i took Pascal a few years later, I already knew a lot of the core concepts, so Logo really was an important stage in my learning to program.
While my first coding experience was in Radio Shack's variant of Microsoft BASIC, I learned quite a bit about procedural programming from Logo. The only thing I never got a chance to interact with was an actual turtle. I saw some students making one draw pictures on a large piece of paper when I was in grade 5 or 6, and thought that would have been very cool
No, there was no chance. There never was, and trying to pull claims of "irregularities" out of thin air and put them out there as true is absurd. Bernie Sanders was never going to be the Democratic nominee, nor was he ever going to be President. He clearly realizes that now, so why can't you?
Trump is bad because Trump says so. He says so all the time. These days, almost every day brings new utterances that confirm just what a foolish and vile person he really is. And, as Enoch Powell once famously said, “For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship's captain complaining about the sea”
If you make elected offices financially unpalatable who will run? Even a Representative basically has to put their lives on hold for two years, a Senator for six at the minimum. That likely means that all but the wealthy are going to be disadvantaged simply by winning, not to mention the personal toll and cost involved in an electoral race.
At the end of the day you would end up much as Britain was in the 18th century, with only rich men or men beholden to rich benefactors running for elected office. If you think that would somehow produce a better legislative assembly, I suggest you look at just how corrupt 18th and early 19th century British politics was. People live in this bizarre bubble where they think somehow politicians these days are oh-so-corrupt, and have little understanding of how politics was practiced even in countries like the US, Canada and Britain a century ago. For goodness sake, Canada's first PM saw his government fall to a no confidence vote because he was taking bribes (the Pacific Scandal), and then, a few years later, was actually re-elected.
The problem as I see it is people demand a level of purity in politicians which is almost absurd. It's one thing to stamp out corruption, but people demand politicians be angels, and then act all shocked and horrified when they turn out to behave not unlike your average citizen. Most governments in the Industrialized World are far more transparent now than they ever were before. A hundred years ago there was no freedom of information laws, and Presidents, Prime Ministers and legislators could literally just keep throwing skeletons in the closet to their hearts content, with little actual risk of being outed.
Because he lost? He lost in absolute numbers, and so far as I can tell, none of the delegates or superdelegates had a gun to their head.
It seems for Sanders and Trump supporters "rigged" translates literally to "my candidate didn't/won't win." At least Bernie was big enough to realize that however much he might personally dislike Clinton, she remains by a wide margin a better presidential candidate than Trump. Trump, on the other hand, is doing his best to even convince his fellow Republicans (if there are any left that actually believe he is a Republican) that he's not fit for the job.
Let's imagine if Hillary wins. If all or part of Congress ends up in Republican hands, we'll have more of the same, lots of grandstanding but ultimately compromise (which is what politics is all about, at least in a democracy). If the Democrats control the White House, she'll have a bit more liberty to move, but not as much as people often think. Many Presidents have been just as constrained when their party controls Congress as when the other party does.
Now, let's imagine Trump. Unless he suddenly starts actually behaving like a rational human being, he's going to be abusing Executive powers in who knows how many ways. The courts will be stacked up for years with challenges against the Executive branch. It probably won't even matter who controls Congress, because Trump is doing his best to alienate just about every important Republican in Congress. He might get a bit more leeway with the Republicans, but if he tries to build big monster walls or starts trying to abridge liberties for certain groups, Congress and the courts are just going to make his life a paralyzed hell. By that point he will have alienated many of the US's major foreign allies, probably fueled a nuclear arms race in East Asia as Japan and South Korea take their fates into their own hands, leading to more instability. He'll leave the US paralyzed domestically, weakened internationally, and in general much worse off.
Unless you're one of the people that imagines, even at this point, that Trump is just having a bit of fun and will, like, be totally serious when he gets sworn in. But I remember everyone saying "once he becomes the front-runner, then he'll be presidential", and he didn't. Then it was "when he clinches enough delegates in the Primaries, then he'll be presidential", and he didn't. And then it was "when he actually gets the nomination, then he'll be presidential", and he hasn't. Simply put, he has no interest in campaigning like someone who is looking to occupy the Oval office. He's campaigning like he's on a TV show.
You know, this excuse is getting thinner and thinner all the time. After his badmouthing of the Khans, it's become pretty damned clear that he's race and religion baiting, and relies upon people like you and his poor kids to handwave away every awful thing he says.
Every day Trump puts more ammunition in the Democrat's arsenal. Every day this man makes a bigger fucking joke of himself. Now he's basically given a big fuck you to Ryan and McCain, with the obvious message being "I don't give a flying fuck about the Republican Party". In other words, he's an independent in all but name, who grandstanded himself into the GOP nomination, and now feels absolutely no loyalty at all to other party members who are running for election.
I can only assume he's either a fucking lunatic, or he really is a Democrat plant intent on tearing the still-beating heart out of the Republicans. At every instance he's testing the GOP's ability to stick with him, and sooner or later, a whole lot of Republicans big and small are just going to go "Fuck it" and either hold their nose and vote Clinton, or just stay home. Even the big money bags like the Koch Brothers won't touch the guy. He's willfully castrating the GOP's ability to raise money and campaign. He is probably the worst candidate for a major political party in fifty years, if not ever.
This gets very tiresome. Your accusations are shrill, hyperbolic at best, and just plain slander at worst. Whether you're a Sanders supporter or a Trump supporter, you're demonstrating the unhinged nature of the political partisan.
So Clinton played hardball. What the fuck do you think political primaries are about? They're a big bad bruising affair whose whole purpose is to determine who can take the most punches and still remain standing. Is that fair? No. Is it right? Not really. But it is what it is, and it has been that way for a very long time. Primaries are not love ins, and politics is not a Timothy Leary-esque happening. And considering the kind of mud your kind are quite happy to sling, whether it's true, or even rational, it seems somewhere deep down you understand that. The real problem is you're a cry baby, a sore loser, and an infantile little brat who can't accept that your favored candidate has either already gone down in defeat, or if you're a Trump supporter, that he's so insane and moronic that he's actually dynamiting his own campaign.
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But but! Hillary's a murderer!!!! It's totally true!!!! And the Clinton Foundation is fronts for the Russian Mob or Asian Triads or something!!!! I heard that, so it's got to be true!
That's why I say authorised use or personal information (via, say, you agreeing to an EULA) means you get a 50 cut.
I have a different idea. I think Congress should pass a law saying such information always remains your property, and that every access of it for the purposes of making profit by any authorized entity must see you paid 50% of the gross revenue generated. Unauthorized access sees you paid 95%. Lack of payment by any company is regarded as theft, and will be prosecuted as a criminal offense.
Well, what else were they going to do? The investors allowed Chen to play a sort of bizarre version of fantasy football, except with a real business, instead of just demanding they're money and going home. Now, the company has wasted billions, sold off many of its assets, laid off a large percentage of its R&D staff, and is likely within a couple of years of total financial dissolution. All that's left is to try to keep the ship afloat by strategic lawsuits. Soon, once those don't bring the bottom line up, they'll just start madly flailing about, suing big players in the hopes that some of the big fish just buy them off, or buy them outright.
Blackberry stopped being relevant five years ago. The fact that it even still exists demonstrates the utter stupidity of investors.
There are treatments for your condition.
Not filling in your census has always come with penalties. It's nothing new.
I work for a contractor for a Provincial government, with a significant amount of the money for that contract actually flowing from the Federal government, and the contract language is explicit; no confidential or personal data is to be stored, or even accessed, outside of Canada.
I actually talked to Google about three years ago and asked if they could guarantee the Google Docs (now Google Drive) cloud could be located on Canadian servers, and they said that couldn't and that they had no plans to. It's my understanding that Microsoft, on the other hand, has conceded to this for OneDrive, so I expect that if Google hasn't already moved in that direction, they will soon.
As it is, we're getting requests from a lot of staff for some sort of Cloud solution, as usage scenarios grow beyond VPNs and RDP.
I'd love to believe that Deadpool will signal studios to start making superhero films for adults. I doubt it, though. I'm even afraid of what the next Deadpool will be like, likely with a bigger budget which means everything will be filtered through a pack of accountants and marketers, which will likely render it an emasculated impotent copy of what was for me one of the best theater experiences I've had in about a quarter century.
The whole audience was laughing out loud when I went. It was just so fantastic to finally have a theater experience again that felt like a social gathering.
Ah yes, Roger's famous:
One of my favorite all time reviews was Roger Ebert's review for Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, which starts with:
The brilliance of the original Ghostbusters was that it actually had, visually at least, some pretty fucking scary scenes; a possessed Sigourney Weaver levitating, a pretty scary looking canine monsters sitting in front of a temple every bit as freaky as anything out of a Indiana Jones film. But these scenes are always offset by a damned fucking good script that keeps them lighthearted and sardonic. Bill Murray is a godsend in these kinds of films, but kudos to all the cast, in particular Rick Moranis, who somehow simultaneously makes the fearsome Vinz Clortho the Keymaster seem like accountant to the demigods.
I really wish Hollywood was still capable of making a film like Ghostbusters, that could so cleverly balance such seemingly incompatible elements in one film, sometimes in one bloody shot.
Yes exactly. If a critic thinks it's a bad movie, they'll write that it's a bad movie. If a bunch of critics give shitty reviews, then a bunch of critics think it's a shitty movie. Demanding critics be silenced because they might hurt a movie's prospects at the box office makes about as much sense as authors demanding bad reviews of their books be taken down because it might hurt book sales.
Besides, I'm pretty dubious as to how much critics' views even matter. The critics largely seem to think most of Michael Bay's films are dire hunks of steaming donkey shit (a view I share), and yet they appear to be licenses to print money, so clearly a helluva lot of people who go to the movies either don't read reviews, or don't give a shit.
And heck, I'm one of them. Lots of critics hated Coneheads and Mars Attacks back in the day, and I confess, every time I watch either, I laugh my ass off, so fuck the critics on those ones.
No, it's more like "fuck", as in "Microsoft is fucking over anyone who puts another OS on their computer."
Good ol' Microsoft. Still evil after all these years.
Why are you so worried about Liberal media? The Koch's won't back him, and now Meg Whitman is backing Clinton. Trump is literally hemorrhaging support. But hey, let's blame the media and Clinton, because that's a lot easier than looking at how absolutely idiotic the man is behaving.
So, tell me, does this change that their son was a US soldier killed overseas? And do you actually have some evidence that they are partaking of corrupt activities? Or is this just your need to smear to defend the vile and lunatic candidate the Republicans chose?
The neat thing about Logo is you could start out that way, and then, at least with the dialects I played with in grade five and six, you also had procedural programming concepts like recursion. I remember when i took Pascal a few years later, I already knew a lot of the core concepts, so Logo really was an important stage in my learning to program.
While my first coding experience was in Radio Shack's variant of Microsoft BASIC, I learned quite a bit about procedural programming from Logo. The only thing I never got a chance to interact with was an actual turtle. I saw some students making one draw pictures on a large piece of paper when I was in grade 5 or 6, and thought that would have been very cool
No, there was no chance. There never was, and trying to pull claims of "irregularities" out of thin air and put them out there as true is absurd. Bernie Sanders was never going to be the Democratic nominee, nor was he ever going to be President. He clearly realizes that now, so why can't you?
Trump is bad because Trump says so. He says so all the time. These days, almost every day brings new utterances that confirm just what a foolish and vile person he really is. And, as Enoch Powell once famously said, “For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship's captain complaining about the sea”
If you make elected offices financially unpalatable who will run? Even a Representative basically has to put their lives on hold for two years, a Senator for six at the minimum. That likely means that all but the wealthy are going to be disadvantaged simply by winning, not to mention the personal toll and cost involved in an electoral race.
At the end of the day you would end up much as Britain was in the 18th century, with only rich men or men beholden to rich benefactors running for elected office. If you think that would somehow produce a better legislative assembly, I suggest you look at just how corrupt 18th and early 19th century British politics was. People live in this bizarre bubble where they think somehow politicians these days are oh-so-corrupt, and have little understanding of how politics was practiced even in countries like the US, Canada and Britain a century ago. For goodness sake, Canada's first PM saw his government fall to a no confidence vote because he was taking bribes (the Pacific Scandal), and then, a few years later, was actually re-elected.
The problem as I see it is people demand a level of purity in politicians which is almost absurd. It's one thing to stamp out corruption, but people demand politicians be angels, and then act all shocked and horrified when they turn out to behave not unlike your average citizen. Most governments in the Industrialized World are far more transparent now than they ever were before. A hundred years ago there was no freedom of information laws, and Presidents, Prime Ministers and legislators could literally just keep throwing skeletons in the closet to their hearts content, with little actual risk of being outed.
Because he lost? He lost in absolute numbers, and so far as I can tell, none of the delegates or superdelegates had a gun to their head.
It seems for Sanders and Trump supporters "rigged" translates literally to "my candidate didn't/won't win." At least Bernie was big enough to realize that however much he might personally dislike Clinton, she remains by a wide margin a better presidential candidate than Trump. Trump, on the other hand, is doing his best to even convince his fellow Republicans (if there are any left that actually believe he is a Republican) that he's not fit for the job.
Let's imagine if Hillary wins. If all or part of Congress ends up in Republican hands, we'll have more of the same, lots of grandstanding but ultimately compromise (which is what politics is all about, at least in a democracy). If the Democrats control the White House, she'll have a bit more liberty to move, but not as much as people often think. Many Presidents have been just as constrained when their party controls Congress as when the other party does.
Now, let's imagine Trump. Unless he suddenly starts actually behaving like a rational human being, he's going to be abusing Executive powers in who knows how many ways. The courts will be stacked up for years with challenges against the Executive branch. It probably won't even matter who controls Congress, because Trump is doing his best to alienate just about every important Republican in Congress. He might get a bit more leeway with the Republicans, but if he tries to build big monster walls or starts trying to abridge liberties for certain groups, Congress and the courts are just going to make his life a paralyzed hell. By that point he will have alienated many of the US's major foreign allies, probably fueled a nuclear arms race in East Asia as Japan and South Korea take their fates into their own hands, leading to more instability. He'll leave the US paralyzed domestically, weakened internationally, and in general much worse off.
Unless you're one of the people that imagines, even at this point, that Trump is just having a bit of fun and will, like, be totally serious when he gets sworn in. But I remember everyone saying "once he becomes the front-runner, then he'll be presidential", and he didn't. Then it was "when he clinches enough delegates in the Primaries, then he'll be presidential", and he didn't. And then it was "when he actually gets the nomination, then he'll be presidential", and he hasn't. Simply put, he has no interest in campaigning like someone who is looking to occupy the Oval office. He's campaigning like he's on a TV show.
You know, this excuse is getting thinner and thinner all the time. After his badmouthing of the Khans, it's become pretty damned clear that he's race and religion baiting, and relies upon people like you and his poor kids to handwave away every awful thing he says.
Every day Trump puts more ammunition in the Democrat's arsenal. Every day this man makes a bigger fucking joke of himself. Now he's basically given a big fuck you to Ryan and McCain, with the obvious message being "I don't give a flying fuck about the Republican Party". In other words, he's an independent in all but name, who grandstanded himself into the GOP nomination, and now feels absolutely no loyalty at all to other party members who are running for election.
I can only assume he's either a fucking lunatic, or he really is a Democrat plant intent on tearing the still-beating heart out of the Republicans. At every instance he's testing the GOP's ability to stick with him, and sooner or later, a whole lot of Republicans big and small are just going to go "Fuck it" and either hold their nose and vote Clinton, or just stay home. Even the big money bags like the Koch Brothers won't touch the guy. He's willfully castrating the GOP's ability to raise money and campaign. He is probably the worst candidate for a major political party in fifty years, if not ever.
This gets very tiresome. Your accusations are shrill, hyperbolic at best, and just plain slander at worst. Whether you're a Sanders supporter or a Trump supporter, you're demonstrating the unhinged nature of the political partisan.
So Clinton played hardball. What the fuck do you think political primaries are about? They're a big bad bruising affair whose whole purpose is to determine who can take the most punches and still remain standing. Is that fair? No. Is it right? Not really. But it is what it is, and it has been that way for a very long time. Primaries are not love ins, and politics is not a Timothy Leary-esque happening. And considering the kind of mud your kind are quite happy to sling, whether it's true, or even rational, it seems somewhere deep down you understand that. The real problem is you're a cry baby, a sore loser, and an infantile little brat who can't accept that your favored candidate has either already gone down in defeat, or if you're a Trump supporter, that he's so insane and moronic that he's actually dynamiting his own campaign.