Non-citizens should have *zero* voting rights, period,
I can agree with that federal elections but shouldn't it be up to states and cities to determine their own laws so long as they do not conflict with federal law?
and certainly not those who willfully break the law in the first place.
It's true they violated the law at one point but it's reductive and dehumanizing to simply classify them as criminals and then dismiss them entirely.
I'm not sure why liberals think that enforcing immigration to the US using the methods currently legally available
You got me all wrong. I'm all for people legal immigration and I think the onus should be upon those who employ illegal immigrants. That said, it's something that the Republican party has rejected because they want the cheap labor. They pretend to be hardliners against illegal immigration because it gets them votes. Rounding up illegal immigrants and deporting them is just like the wall, they know it wont actually do anything to address the problem but it gets votes.
If they were actually wanted to address illegal immigration then they would go after the corporations that provide them the money to stay here.
and strictly controlling who we let in
We already have a strict immigration process. This comes across as a racist dog whistle to keep brown people out more than anything else.
They have evolved chemical reactions that are linked to vibrations of a certain pattern but they aren't hearing. The difference is that hearing implies cognition which plants lack.
This may seem pendant but it's like saying your stairs feel you walking up them because they squeak when you step on them.
Those are municipal elections and they literally have no influence on state or federal elections. The question is, why would you care how a city chooses to run itself?
* The people that live along the border don't even want it.
Excuse me? Who the holy fuck are you to say what we want?
I'm the fucking guy that reads polling data from border states regarding the wall. Who are you to discount multiple polls?
Illegals are still flooding across the border.
The numbers say otherwise. It's at 20 year low.
Saw a group of 5 of them yesterday (you bet your ass I called them a CBP taxi). If they were here to request asylum, why were they sneaking through the bushes? People who want asylum cross at a point of entry and present themselves to the authorities.
Excellent anecdotal straw man argument. Well done.
You've just been proven to be a liar. Carry on.
Your idea of what constitutes proof does not behove you.
The shear level of computation power and memory that we have access to is mind blowing.
The dystopian aspects regarding technology are also way higher than expected. People may see this as a negative but I see it as an opportunity for knowledgeable programmers and hackers. Yes, it is true that our collective commercial technology is "a massive flaming pile of trash that I really don't want to deal with" but nobody is forcing you to use it. Nobody is forcing you on social media, nobody is forcing you to have a "smart" phone/tv/house/etc and yet so many do. For those of us who recognize how awful these things are and have the discipline to avoid them, it's a great opportunity to have fun.
But OMFG, how is it that Cisco still makes routers that have shit security? I mean, you had one job and it's a serious train wreck. I honestly thought their stuff would be impenetrable by now. Also, I'm still baffled as to how everyone thought Systemd was a great idea. I think either Red Hat bought off a bunch of people or they are way dumber then I give them credit for.
TL;RD: the cyberpunk present does not disappoint in that everything is entirely hackable.
Take $20B out of the DoD budget and build a really awesome border wall.
Because the total cost is $150B just for construction. Would congress even agree to a $20B DoD funding cut?
* $20B that is spent domestically.
It's already spend domestically.
* $20B that builds things that last (ie not ordnance, bullets, etc.)
A wall requires regular maintenance just like our failing infrastructure.
* Will pay for itself quickly with the reduction in human traffic across the border.
It literally will do nothing to reduce human traffic. The people coming in are presenting themselves to request asylum.
* Keeps the flow of new Democratic voters reduced.
Non-citizens cannot vote.
* Forces the Chamber of Commerce to hire more native low skilled workers.
No, it wouldn't. It would go to the same companies that are currently working on the fence.
Actual disadvantages: * It's ineffective and waste of money. * It would be rewarding bad behavior and thus encouraging more of it. * The people that live along the border don't even want it. * It makes the US look cowardly and racist (like you pro-wall people). * It will cost way more money than current estimates. * There are still maintenance/repair costs. * The nation is going into debt just to fund it. * The US started the mess in the 1980s that has has people fleeing Honduras now.
Had the two collided, there surely would have been plastic bits broken and strewn about. Instead it just kinda falls over with no indication that it received a damaging blow.
Have you seen Battle Bots? When a robot gets hit with great force they go flying and so do their parts. Now consider what happens when a bigger and more fragile version goes up against a car. It would be pieces everywhere and the car would register the impact and stop.
Do note that those are all specific and well defined instances, not generic.
Also, the "CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE" word mark is limited to it being written in uppercase in a certain typeset while the episode never even had it in writing.
Everytime it comes to Russia or China, there is always a group of people who seem to equivocate the actions of the US with that country. However, this is a distinct difference: the US is not a dictatorship. Coincidentally, these are the same people who defend the US President which is a wannabe dictator. I wish they would just declare that they don't believe in democracy and they want the US to be a dictatorship too because there really is no other logical explanation for their behavior.
Polish Police Arrest Huawei Executive On Suspicion Of Spying For China
They are trying everything to slow down Huawei. They will fail in my opinion as Huawei is a major 5G patent holder.
Hmm, an alternative possibility is that they have "evidence that the two suspects "cooperated with the Chinese services" as they conducted espionage against Poland" and it's legit.
Trademarks are for branding in written content, not spoken. The phrase, "choose your own adventure" is not trademarked because that is impossible. Even with subtitles they would have to be trying to confuse the customers with something that is similar to it's trademark, the words alone are not enough.
Coca-Cola would have a better chance of suing Pepsi for saying "it's like Coke but tastes better" in one of their commercials.
What's more probable, that the fools that programmed these HR bots made them to regard skill and experience as being highly valuable or that they are simply going to discard everyone that doesn't meet the "desired" qualifications? HR was shitty to start with but this is absolute trash.
Google makes way too much money for something like this to block video ads on YouTube. I'm sure this is more of an effort to make it more difficult for people to identify which ad blocker they should use because there is no way this thing blocks YouTube ads.
I mean, Jesus H. Christo - it is goddamned *tough* to find competent IT support. If they can't do it with automatic weapons and methamphetamine torture parties, what hope do the rest of us have?
Offer a good wage and free skills training and you can find lots of competent IT people. Be a cheap bastard and shun people because of their age and you get what you get.
1) The FBI didn't announce anything. 2) The sysadmin is a criminal that assisted El Chapo. (no sympathy for the Devil's assistant) 3) It makes for a good story.
Nobody has claimed Kaspersky was a willing or even witting participant in the event, only that they were a participant. As such, it's fully within the rights of the US government to deem their software on US government systems to be a threat and to advise employees to not use it.
On the other hand, what better way to sow seeds of self-doubt than to sacrifice a pawn?
There are a couple reasons to trust them but far more numerous and more compelling reasons to distrust them.
I agree... but I just wanted to point to something that some claim is expensive but is highly desirable. Paying off the national debt or rebuilding infrastructure isn't very sexy as far as desire goes but damn it is expensive.
The market is wildly distorted and fixing it would be advantageous to the vast majority of Americans but devastating to those who've made a living off the distortion.
Bail out? Nah, the country would be way better off if we just auctioned off their assets to smaller companies would would take their place instead of subsidizing their bad behavior.
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Non-citizens should have *zero* voting rights, period,
I can agree with that federal elections but shouldn't it be up to states and cities to determine their own laws so long as they do not conflict with federal law?
and certainly not those who willfully break the law in the first place.
It's true they violated the law at one point but it's reductive and dehumanizing to simply classify them as criminals and then dismiss them entirely.
I'm not sure why liberals think that enforcing immigration to the US using the methods currently legally available
You got me all wrong. I'm all for people legal immigration and I think the onus should be upon those who employ illegal immigrants. That said, it's something that the Republican party has rejected because they want the cheap labor. They pretend to be hardliners against illegal immigration because it gets them votes. Rounding up illegal immigrants and deporting them is just like the wall, they know it wont actually do anything to address the problem but it gets votes.
If they were actually wanted to address illegal immigration then they would go after the corporations that provide them the money to stay here.
and strictly controlling who we let in
We already have a strict immigration process. This comes across as a racist dog whistle to keep brown people out more than anything else.
They have evolved chemical reactions that are linked to vibrations of a certain pattern but they aren't hearing. The difference is that hearing implies cognition which plants lack.
This may seem pendant but it's like saying your stairs feel you walking up them because they squeak when you step on them.
Those are municipal elections and they literally have no influence on state or federal elections. The question is, why would you care how a city chooses to run itself?
* The people that live along the border don't even want it.
Excuse me? Who the holy fuck are you to say what we want?
I'm the fucking guy that reads polling data from border states regarding the wall. Who are you to discount multiple polls?
Illegals are still flooding across the border.
The numbers say otherwise. It's at 20 year low.
Saw a group of 5 of them yesterday (you bet your ass I called them a CBP taxi). If they were here to request asylum, why were they sneaking through the bushes? People who want asylum cross at a point of entry and present themselves to the authorities.
Excellent anecdotal straw man argument. Well done.
You've just been proven to be a liar. Carry on.
Your idea of what constitutes proof does not behove you.
The shear level of computation power and memory that we have access to is mind blowing.
The dystopian aspects regarding technology are also way higher than expected. People may see this as a negative but I see it as an opportunity for knowledgeable programmers and hackers. Yes, it is true that our collective commercial technology is "a massive flaming pile of trash that I really don't want to deal with" but nobody is forcing you to use it. Nobody is forcing you on social media, nobody is forcing you to have a "smart" phone/tv/house/etc and yet so many do. For those of us who recognize how awful these things are and have the discipline to avoid them, it's a great opportunity to have fun.
But OMFG, how is it that Cisco still makes routers that have shit security? I mean, you had one job and it's a serious train wreck. I honestly thought their stuff would be impenetrable by now. Also, I'm still baffled as to how everyone thought Systemd was a great idea. I think either Red Hat bought off a bunch of people or they are way dumber then I give them credit for.
TL;RD: the cyberpunk present does not disappoint in that everything is entirely hackable.
Take $20B out of the DoD budget and build a really awesome border wall.
Because the total cost is $150B just for construction. Would congress even agree to a $20B DoD funding cut?
* $20B that is spent domestically.
It's already spend domestically.
* $20B that builds things that last (ie not ordnance, bullets, etc.)
A wall requires regular maintenance just like our failing infrastructure.
* Will pay for itself quickly with the reduction in human traffic across the border.
It literally will do nothing to reduce human traffic. The people coming in are presenting themselves to request asylum.
* Keeps the flow of new Democratic voters reduced.
Non-citizens cannot vote.
* Forces the Chamber of Commerce to hire more native low skilled workers.
No, it wouldn't. It would go to the same companies that are currently working on the fence.
Actual disadvantages:
* It's ineffective and waste of money.
* It would be rewarding bad behavior and thus encouraging more of it.
* The people that live along the border don't even want it.
* It makes the US look cowardly and racist (like you pro-wall people).
* It will cost way more money than current estimates.
* There are still maintenance/repair costs.
* The nation is going into debt just to fund it.
* The US started the mess in the 1980s that has has people fleeing Honduras now.
Had the two collided, there surely would have been plastic bits broken and strewn about. Instead it just kinda falls over with no indication that it received a damaging blow.
Have you seen Battle Bots? When a robot gets hit with great force they go flying and so do their parts. Now consider what happens when a bigger and more fragile version goes up against a car. It would be pieces everywhere and the car would register the impact and stop.
Do note that those are all specific and well defined instances, not generic.
Also, the "CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE" word mark is limited to it being written in uppercase in a certain typeset while the episode never even had it in writing.
The courts shall validate this truth.
Yeah, those are covered by copyright... but only that instance.
I live near DC and never hear the end of all the moaning and whining when government does a shut-down.
Oh no please, feel moan and whine about it on Slashdot. -_-
Everytime it comes to Russia or China, there is always a group of people who seem to equivocate the actions of the US with that country. However, this is a distinct difference: the US is not a dictatorship. Coincidentally, these are the same people who defend the US President which is a wannabe dictator. I wish they would just declare that they don't believe in democracy and they want the US to be a dictatorship too because there really is no other logical explanation for their behavior.
Polish Police Arrest Huawei Executive On Suspicion Of Spying For China
They are trying everything to slow down Huawei. They will fail in my opinion as Huawei is a major 5G patent holder.
Hmm, an alternative possibility is that they have "evidence that the two suspects "cooperated with the Chinese services" as they conducted espionage against Poland" and it's legit.
Trademarks are for branding in written content, not spoken. The phrase, "choose your own adventure" is not trademarked because that is impossible. Even with subtitles they would have to be trying to confuse the customers with something that is similar to it's trademark, the words alone are not enough.
Coca-Cola would have a better chance of suing Pepsi for saying "it's like Coke but tastes better" in one of their commercials.
What's more probable, that the fools that programmed these HR bots made them to regard skill and experience as being highly valuable or that they are simply going to discard everyone that doesn't meet the "desired" qualifications? HR was shitty to start with but this is absolute trash.
Does nobody remember Homer's makeup gun?
Ask a CEO of a public company about a corporate competitor and they are going to trash talk them without any substance.
Even TFA opens with this admission:
Yesterday I spent two hours listening to the CEOs of rival companies talk trash about each other.
And they ask for details about his trash talk it all fizzled out.
When pressed about his comments, especially his touting of ray tracing she said, “I’m not gonna get into it tit for tat that’s just not my style.”
This is the kind of crap you would read in a Hollywood gossip rag with a twist.
All the young people need to start trolling old people on Facebook until they either quit Facebook or have a heart attack. Problem solved! ;)
Google makes way too much money for something like this to block video ads on YouTube. I'm sure this is more of an effort to make it more difficult for people to identify which ad blocker they should use because there is no way this thing blocks YouTube ads.
I mean, Jesus H. Christo - it is goddamned *tough* to find competent IT support. If they can't do it with automatic weapons and methamphetamine torture parties, what hope do the rest of us have?
Offer a good wage and free skills training and you can find lots of competent IT people. Be a cheap bastard and shun people because of their age and you get what you get.
Why would they announce that?
1) The FBI didn't announce anything.
2) The sysadmin is a criminal that assisted El Chapo. (no sympathy for the Devil's assistant)
3) It makes for a good story.
might not. (Psst... this isn't news)
Nobody has claimed Kaspersky was a willing or even witting participant in the event, only that they were a participant. As such, it's fully within the rights of the US government to deem their software on US government systems to be a threat and to advise employees to not use it.
On the other hand, what better way to sow seeds of self-doubt than to sacrifice a pawn?
There are a couple reasons to trust them but far more numerous and more compelling reasons to distrust them.
I agree... but I just wanted to point to something that some claim is expensive but is highly desirable. Paying off the national debt or rebuilding infrastructure isn't very sexy as far as desire goes but damn it is expensive.
The market is wildly distorted and fixing it would be advantageous to the vast majority of Americans but devastating to those who've made a living off the distortion.
Bail out? Nah, the country would be way better off if we just auctioned off their assets to smaller companies would would take their place instead of subsidizing their bad behavior.
Just as there are hidden subsidies for soy and corn.
This only increases the argument that livestock is heavily subsidized since they feed livestock lots of corn! >_<;
Don't pretend either side is lacking.
One side depends on the other being subsidized to start with! There is a good argument to be made that corn is subsidized for livestock.
But really, which part of "we shouldn't subsidize corn either" did you not understand?