I encountered somebody who I am pretty sure thought they were a nazi when I was going to college. They were subtle about it, but they seemed like they wanted to be the troublemaker at events.
Heres a clue for you: People like neo-Nazis are just idiot wannabes. They imitate something ugly from the past but are unhinged and totally ineffective. Much the same can be said for people who claim they are the KKK.
When the KKK was in power in Indiana in the 1930's, it was a big populist movement. Being a member of the Klan was like being a Shriner or a Lions Club member. It was mainstream. The ugly underside of the KKK wasn't the public face of the organization. But the broad public nature of the mainstream organization empowered the ugly underside and as a result bad things happened.
Right now, anybody who wears a 'KKK' outfit in public is a clown, a poseur. They should be treated a such, because there is very much NO likelihood they will amount to anything. Regular people don't get behind that stuff.
The people who are loudly 'anti-KKK' in a non-historcal sense are just the flipside of the record. The KKK came from a dark time of American history and we should be aware of that fact going forward. But that's it. Clowns in costumes don't mean a thing. David Duke is a failed politician. There are tons of those out there. Hilliary Clinton can join him now and hopefully we can over time forget them.
Same here. I don't think I really even like Trump. I see him as a large orange bottle of Drano. I certainly wouldn't want to drink it. I don't think I've even ever used Drano, it would wipe out the important cultures in our septic tank.
But I think the Federal Government badly needs a flush.
I wouldn't have ever been as strongly in favor of Trump if the old boys at the GOP didn't hate him so much. The old 'Chamber of Commerce' Republicans got kicked to the curb in this race.
He saved us from Jeb Bush and a Bush vs. Clinton race. That would have been embarrassing.
The real pity in 2016 is that Rand Paul ran early as a Republican. If he had been the Libertarian Candidate during this whole mess there would have been an interesting alternative to vote for.
My point is that 'World Government' will by necessity represent the biggest dictatorship the world has never seen before. Freedom doesn't scale that way.
Executive Privilege is suspended, come January 20th.
All the undemocratic shit that the Executive Branch has pulled in the last few decades. Whoosh. New precedent. The rest of the government will clip his wings in that regard so fast our heads will spin. It's one of the best things about Trump winning.
Laws will again need to be passed the way they're supposed to be in a democracy.
I already have dual connector USB flash drives. Mine have a USB A connector on one end, and a micro-USB OTG connector on the other end. So I can connect to any OTG-standard compliant phone or tablet, and bring the flash contents to/from a regular PC.
That's actually practical for much of today's current hardware.
When I play in an MMO, I am one of the actors in the television show that I am watching. It's much more interactive than passively sitting on the couch watching a sports event, or watching some other twitch monkey play a video game.
just get it over with so I don't have to see Drumpf's face and hear his voice constantly on every goddamn website I go to, including this one.
If Trump wins, I hear that people sometimes go on long voyages on freighters to the South Seas. Some of those ships are completely out of range of common modern communications networks for weeks and weeks. You might book yourself passage on one. They have a limited number of passenger compartments and are working ships, not luxury liners. You might like the isolation.
Yes. Say that sinister new term 'Alt-Right' and you can instantly discredit anything. It's like magic powder. Back in the day, politicians used the word 'Commie' the same way.
It's a lot more than that, but I, like AC above, don't have the time to cite anything specific.
It's common for 'Voter Registration' operations to hire anybody off the street to go around signing people up. It makes perfect sense for a percentage of the people they hire to do fake registrations to collect as much $$ as they can.
Big lithium batteries are the equivalent of a giant Galaxy Note 7 hanging on the side of your house.
Now, it's probably a little alarmist to make a statement like this, but large lithium batteries do represent a tremendous amount of stored energy that can be explosive if the container is voided.
There will need to be a decade or more of history before we really know what the risks are.
One thing for certain is that large lithium battery banks aren't something that people will be able to install and forget. And the schemes that I have seen proposed where old battery banks, which are no longer 'energy-dense' enough to be mobile on vehicles, are redeployed to stationary use, represent a risk. Old batteries have seals that deteriorate. When the seal voids is when the explosion occurs.
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I encountered somebody who I am pretty sure thought they were a nazi when I was going to college. They were subtle about it, but they seemed like they wanted to be the troublemaker at events.
Heres a clue for you: People like neo-Nazis are just idiot wannabes. They imitate something ugly from the past but are unhinged and totally ineffective. Much the same can be said for people who claim they are the KKK.
When the KKK was in power in Indiana in the 1930's, it was a big populist movement. Being a member of the Klan was like being a Shriner or a Lions Club member. It was mainstream. The ugly underside of the KKK wasn't the public face of the organization. But the broad public nature of the mainstream organization empowered the ugly underside and as a result bad things happened.
Right now, anybody who wears a 'KKK' outfit in public is a clown, a poseur. They should be treated a such, because there is very much NO likelihood they will amount to anything. Regular people don't get behind that stuff.
The people who are loudly 'anti-KKK' in a non-historcal sense are just the flipside of the record. The KKK came from a dark time of American history and we should be aware of that fact going forward. But that's it. Clowns in costumes don't mean a thing. David Duke is a failed politician. There are tons of those out there. Hilliary Clinton can join him now and hopefully we can over time forget them.
We expect a citation from you. Reference the law in question. It's all available for you to provide a link.
Don't link some blog or advocacy site.
We'll wait.
I'm so glad we won't have to listen to that droning harridan for four years.
Same here. I don't think I really even like Trump. I see him as a large orange bottle of Drano. I certainly wouldn't want to drink it. I don't think I've even ever used Drano, it would wipe out the important cultures in our septic tank.
But I think the Federal Government badly needs a flush.
I wouldn't have ever been as strongly in favor of Trump if the old boys at the GOP didn't hate him so much. The old 'Chamber of Commerce' Republicans got kicked to the curb in this race.
He saved us from Jeb Bush and a Bush vs. Clinton race. That would have been embarrassing.
The real pity in 2016 is that Rand Paul ran early as a Republican. If he had been the Libertarian Candidate during this whole mess there would have been an interesting alternative to vote for.
My point is that 'World Government' will by necessity represent the biggest dictatorship the world has never seen before. Freedom doesn't scale that way.
Now, a World Federation of Republics could work.
One of the best things about Trump's victory:
Executive Privilege is suspended, come January 20th.
All the undemocratic shit that the Executive Branch has pulled in the last few decades. Whoosh. New precedent. The rest of the government will clip his wings in that regard so fast our heads will spin. It's one of the best things about Trump winning.
Laws will again need to be passed the way they're supposed to be in a democracy.
I hear thousands and thousands of brain-sized flushing sounds.
Better hop on your bus to Canada, numbskulls.
Let me be the first to say it:
In yer face.
"World Government"?
Which Army gets to run things under your scenario?
Do we start chanting 'USA! USA!' ??
The heck with that.
I already have dual connector USB flash drives. Mine have a USB A connector on one end, and a micro-USB OTG connector on the other end. So I can connect to any OTG-standard compliant phone or tablet, and bring the flash contents to/from a regular PC.
That's actually practical for much of today's current hardware.
When I play in an MMO, I am one of the actors in the television show that I am watching. It's much more interactive than passively sitting on the couch watching a sports event, or watching some other twitch monkey play a video game.
Trees make CO2 emissions naturally neutral. No magic is needed.
If we'd stifle all the fools who make 'save a tree' arguments against paper usage, and plant more trees, the world would be better.
A statement from Chelsea Manning about how it feels to not be the Democratic Candidate for the Presidency.
So just the special new flash drive. Not the ones everybody already has. Not the one that can be plugged into the other 95% of the computers in use.
Whatever. Nobody outside your little circle of ideologues even knows what you are talking about.
You're just mad because the Koch Brothers hate Trump too, and your head got all swirly and confused, so you had to make up a new buzzword.
just get it over with so I don't have to see Drumpf's face and hear his voice constantly on every goddamn website I go to, including this one.
If Trump wins, I hear that people sometimes go on long voyages on freighters to the South Seas. Some of those ships are completely out of range of common modern communications networks for weeks and weeks. You might book yourself passage on one. They have a limited number of passenger compartments and are working ships, not luxury liners. You might like the isolation.
Yes. Say that sinister new term 'Alt-Right' and you can instantly discredit anything. It's like magic powder. Back in the day, politicians used the word 'Commie' the same way.
It's a lot more than that, but I, like AC above, don't have the time to cite anything specific.
It's common for 'Voter Registration' operations to hire anybody off the street to go around signing people up. It makes perfect sense for a percentage of the people they hire to do fake registrations to collect as much $$ as they can.
You still use the 80K floppies??
Wow.
Don't pick on macs4all. Feel sorry for him, stuck with that username.
Like Jobs himself, Apple products will get thinner and thinner until they die.
Apple has always been about having the nicest stuff, and right now, usb-c port is the nicest.
Fuck you. A bunch of nancy designers in a 'design salon' do not get to decide what is the 'nicest port.'
The marketing fucks at Apple don't decide, either.
This is Slashdot. We don't need this kind of shit.
Some people are irritated by the fucker trying to drive them forward into the market stall to buy all new shit every time they blink.
Big lithium batteries are the equivalent of a giant Galaxy Note 7 hanging on the side of your house.
Now, it's probably a little alarmist to make a statement like this, but large lithium batteries do represent a tremendous amount of stored energy that can be explosive if the container is voided.
There will need to be a decade or more of history before we really know what the risks are.
One thing for certain is that large lithium battery banks aren't something that people will be able to install and forget. And the schemes that I have seen proposed where old battery banks, which are no longer 'energy-dense' enough to be mobile on vehicles, are redeployed to stationary use, represent a risk. Old batteries have seals that deteriorate. When the seal voids is when the explosion occurs.
...that only you transmit up to 'the cloud' anytime you want to use any of your passwords, anywhere.
I know it isn't quite that simple or risky, but it's rather close.
Password Managers, by design, serve the function of reducing your security.