Now place the emphasis where you think it should be, and then consider where the emphasis would be where THEY think ti should be.
I use my 'power cellphone' occasionally to reboot VMs, bounce mail services, reset passwords, and update WordPress sites. Does that make me a power user, or do I have a power cellphone I use? Nothing I mentioned as occasional tasks couldn't be handled with a whacked-up Raspberry Pi 'terminal' and any of several connectivity solutions, for $100-$200, depending on my comfort level.
The NFL in particular may actually sponsor multiple professional sports in the US via advertising and event production. But the Nuremberg rallies were purposeful celebrations of the Nazi Party in Germany, between 1923? and 1932 or so. Your confusion is itself nonsensical to me, for our military is not a ruling party despite the popularity of conspiracy theories among some, and they don't even do so at every game in every sport. Many teams do bring on a color guard, but this is coincident with the Pledge of Allegiance and performance of our National Anthem, common to many leagues and games.
Jingoism is the refuge of the stateless, nation-denying Leftist, who sees nations as impediment to global dominance. And rightly so. I value my nation as a distinct entity, distinct from all others, and I think I'm blessed to have been born here. Changing it into something else meets with my disapproval and opposition. Equating it with, for instance, Nazi Germany, is to my ears tinny and a shrill attempt to deny its true nature, and of course is intended to do harm. It's mistaken at best, intentionally hurtful most likely.
Why not reduce Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, TANF, SNAP, the FBI, the CIA, the DoE, the VA, and a half dozen other Cabinet-level agencies, and reduce taxes?
Shut it all down.
And reduce taxes.
Or, perhaps, think. Reduce it all and reduce taxes. Where I work we reduced by 10-15% in 2009. And we prospered. Asking our government to manage with even a 5% reduction requires two things:
0 - Near total replacement of the current legislature.
1- Repeat above to make your point.
2 - Real federal budget reform, after step 1 above. It will not be done otherwise.
China did not 'shoot down' one of their satellites in 2007, they destroyed it in orbit. And they did so with technology not terribly advanced even in 2007.
The primary aftermath was a debris cloud that still is largely in orbit, and will probably pose a threat to various other objects over time. Indeed, debris is likely going to be an actual weapon type in space.
China certainly used space weapons in 2007. We are behind in only now focusing on space warfare.
I accept that America was settled by Europeans/etc., and the native population was nearly obliterated. I don't accept that it was right or just, but it happened. We can't undo that.
But claims that various native populations struggle with poverty, disease, and failure are heard alongside the very similar reports from various big cities, who have no excuse of endemic oppression and a history of being conquered, massacred, and humiliated. Unless you consider Democrat government to be such, and the results may speak volumes to that premise.
I think the FCC is misguided here unless they hang this on Native American sovereignty, and I think this is an argument we need not have.
Don't ask Europe what they may or may not 'owe' the United States of America. Such questions raise issues better left unspoken, ignored, and buried underfoot.
If Zuck is censoring content, he has some standard, some set of rules, even if they are his instantaneous reaction to the content. Doesn't really matter what those standards or rules are, they exists, and that is enough.
And that puts Facebook in the position of taking responsibility for the content they permit to be published. How contentious content is found and brought to the attention of the censors is a reasonable question, but ultimately it doesn't matter either. Facebook took on responsibility for the content, all of it, and doing them the small favor of helping them spot contentious content only recognizes their assumed role, and furthers it.
So, now a publisher, they have some minimal responsibility for the content they publish. May they wear that mantle like a millstone. Or, preferably, get out of the censorship business.
Or, more reasonably, recognizes it is not practical to pretend you're fair when, plainly, you're not. Your future competitors will thank you for continuing to be biased and unfair, if you can't help yourself.
Folding screens, for instance, will transform the industry's high-end, but since they have priced current top of the line phones at the market limit (which is after all economics in action), and is there a market for folding-screen phones that makes them feasible? I dunno, I wanted one but the probable price makes me say 'wait'.
A truly capable desktop-able phone is within reach probably, though the software may not be. Samsung keeps trying.
Most of the innovation will be in software. When I can get our my car, disconnect the display from the dash screen, walk in my front door, and my phone takes a corner of my TV to announce 'it's home', voice commands move to my in-home assistant, and it all works without me having to say or do anything, then we're getting some innovation. Let it ignore my kids' voices, even better, and take only mine, perfect...
Linux at the server level is a no-brainer. Even if you're running massive databases, nothing in the Microsoft orbit can claim to be so superior to open source , no, they can't. I live with a Cassandra system, and it is not the db engine that is the problem. They would have the same problems with MariaDB, MongoDB, Oracle, SQL Server, or DB2. We left Hadoop a while ago.
But the desktop user is different, and comparisons are pointless. Server side apps are different. That space is a real catfight between Microsoft and open source, and Microsoft is facing competition from the big cloud gang, though they are cloud-ing everything they can to keep up.
Claiming users can learn a different desktop, so Linux wins, kinda ignores the transtions from WIndows 3.x to NT to 2000 to 95/XP to Vista/7/8 to now Windows 10. Users *have* learned new desktops. If you leave the exit buttons on the right-hand side of window you solve 90% of that pain... The rest is manageable. Not much harder than dealing with KDE/Gnome/XFCE, and certainly simpler than moving to MacOS.
I was running SUSE desktops for 40+ users mostly browser-based internal app and a custom C++ app, imaging via dd and PXE boot/tftp in 2003. It was possible, and we migrated from Windows XP over 2 months, working. All the usual OOO and stuff working , SMB shares from the preexisting Windows Server while we moved SMTP to a RHEL box
But constant complaints from management that they, they, didn't have the apps they wanted, like Office. And Outlook. Those we reverted back to XP, no big deal, except for the dev having to compile the C++ app more than twice, I dunno, ask HIM, he was a prima donna.
Mind you, the company annoyed their single, sole customer to the point of rejection, and I did not get my last paycheck cashed, but that was before systemd so no doubt it was another Linux desktop failure./s
It can and is being done, but it requires almost as much learning as Windows does for enterprise deployment. Running everything on your Linux desktop in jail is a start, properly managing user rights, and SSH for administration, collapsing into very limited images, and deciding in advance on your shared resources and not changing them too often sure helps, but we are still in the position where no one loses their job buying IBM hardware and Microsoft software in enterprise situations.
Sure makes more sense than trying to use Apple in the enterprise for anything except creative roles.
Sure, so true, because after all the manufacturers will take this article (and the fine/. writeup), post it on the bulletin board, and the product teams will study this and make the minimum changes to address those, and only those, deficiencies.
Sadly, people think less of manufacturers every day. I would expect that they will also consider signing their data, oh, damn, you missed that.
So, if you were known to the 'monitoring folks' in more than one community, this would be pretty cool, huh?
Nice place you live in, with undetectable population change. I'm being 0) snarky - no, you don't live in such a place, and 1) supportive - living among lifelong neighbors is a huge blessing. Cherish that.
Perhaps your education has failed you. The Electoral College was designed to lessen the impact of populous states, minimizing their ability to rule the less populous states. I always thought it was a convenient process in the day of horses, but no, I was wrong. And even then, the Founders and authors of our Constitution had given much thought and demonstrated great wisdom, for indeed Presidential election results prove their fears were warranted. The most recent election shows voting results by county support the contention that urban areas tended to vote in one way, less-urban and rural areas voting in another. As the United *States* of America, we are a unique nation in many ways.
Likewise, the House of Representatives was constituted to minimize the impact of 'slave' states, where it could not, with a straight face at least, accept that slaves could vote, and therefore the 'free' non-slave 'permitting' states) would have had disproportionate representation but without actual votes of free men.
Ultimately it took, what, three Amendments to the Constitution to resolve these errors? Or four?
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They are power cellphone users.
Now place the emphasis where you think it should be, and then consider where the emphasis would be where THEY think ti should be.
I use my 'power cellphone' occasionally to reboot VMs, bounce mail services, reset passwords, and update WordPress sites. Does that make me a power user, or do I have a power cellphone I use? Nothing I mentioned as occasional tasks couldn't be handled with a whacked-up Raspberry Pi 'terminal' and any of several connectivity solutions, for $100-$200, depending on my comfort level.
Don't think I characterised you as a Leftist, just not entirely informed. Our military advertises. It's currently a volunteer service.
But I'm well aware of the propaganda I've consumed and still am assaulted by daily. I just still believe what I believe...
Must I?
The NFL in particular may actually sponsor multiple professional sports in the US via advertising and event production. But the Nuremberg rallies were purposeful celebrations of the Nazi Party in Germany, between 1923? and 1932 or so. Your confusion is itself nonsensical to me, for our military is not a ruling party despite the popularity of conspiracy theories among some, and they don't even do so at every game in every sport. Many teams do bring on a color guard, but this is coincident with the Pledge of Allegiance and performance of our National Anthem, common to many leagues and games.
Jingoism is the refuge of the stateless, nation-denying Leftist, who sees nations as impediment to global dominance. And rightly so. I value my nation as a distinct entity, distinct from all others, and I think I'm blessed to have been born here. Changing it into something else meets with my disapproval and opposition. Equating it with, for instance, Nazi Germany, is to my ears tinny and a shrill attempt to deny its true nature, and of course is intended to do harm. It's mistaken at best, intentionally hurtful most likely.
"a strong work ethic brought from Western Europe"
FTFY
"those very strange "salute to service" games which look an awful lot like Nuremberg rallies to those of us who live outside the US."
You should be exercising more critical thinking. Your education may be at fault.
And there you have it. 'True conservatives' quote law. True leftists make up law.
"Why not reduce defense spending and cut taxes?"
Why not reduce Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, TANF, SNAP, the FBI, the CIA, the DoE, the VA, and a half dozen other Cabinet-level agencies, and reduce taxes?
Shut it all down.
And reduce taxes.
Or, perhaps, think. Reduce it all and reduce taxes. Where I work we reduced by 10-15% in 2009. And we prospered. Asking our government to manage with even a 5% reduction requires two things:
0 - Near total replacement of the current legislature.
1- Repeat above to make your point.
2 - Real federal budget reform, after step 1 above. It will not be done otherwise.
Don't California welfare participants read the EULA?
China did not 'shoot down' one of their satellites in 2007, they destroyed it in orbit. And they did so with technology not terribly advanced even in 2007.
The primary aftermath was a debris cloud that still is largely in orbit, and will probably pose a threat to various other objects over time. Indeed, debris is likely going to be an actual weapon type in space.
China certainly used space weapons in 2007. We are behind in only now focusing on space warfare.
I accept that America was settled by Europeans/etc., and the native population was nearly obliterated. I don't accept that it was right or just, but it happened. We can't undo that.
But claims that various native populations struggle with poverty, disease, and failure are heard alongside the very similar reports from various big cities, who have no excuse of endemic oppression and a history of being conquered, massacred, and humiliated. Unless you consider Democrat government to be such, and the results may speak volumes to that premise.
I think the FCC is misguided here unless they hang this on Native American sovereignty, and I think this is an argument we need not have.
Don't ask Europe what they may or may not 'owe' the United States of America. Such questions raise issues better left unspoken, ignored, and buried underfoot.
Truth is such a bitch.
Comes great temptation.
If Zuck is censoring content, he has some standard, some set of rules, even if they are his instantaneous reaction to the content. Doesn't really matter what those standards or rules are, they exists, and that is enough.
And that puts Facebook in the position of taking responsibility for the content they permit to be published. How contentious content is found and brought to the attention of the censors is a reasonable question, but ultimately it doesn't matter either. Facebook took on responsibility for the content, all of it, and doing them the small favor of helping them spot contentious content only recognizes their assumed role, and furthers it.
So, now a publisher, they have some minimal responsibility for the content they publish. May they wear that mantle like a millstone. Or, preferably, get out of the censorship business.
Or, more reasonably, recognizes it is not practical to pretend you're fair when, plainly, you're not. Your future competitors will thank you for continuing to be biased and unfair, if you can't help yourself.
Just unable, yet, to deliver
Folding screens, for instance, will transform the industry's high-end, but since they have priced current top of the line phones at the market limit (which is after all economics in action), and is there a market for folding-screen phones that makes them feasible? I dunno, I wanted one but the probable price makes me say 'wait'.
A truly capable desktop-able phone is within reach probably, though the software may not be. Samsung keeps trying.
Most of the innovation will be in software. When I can get our my car, disconnect the display from the dash screen, walk in my front door, and my phone takes a corner of my TV to announce 'it's home', voice commands move to my in-home assistant, and it all works without me having to say or do anything, then we're getting some innovation. Let it ignore my kids' voices, even better, and take only mine, perfect...
Software. Phone shape is a battle won.
Linux at the server level is a no-brainer. Even if you're running massive databases, nothing in the Microsoft orbit can claim to be so superior to open source , no, they can't. I live with a Cassandra system, and it is not the db engine that is the problem. They would have the same problems with MariaDB, MongoDB, Oracle, SQL Server, or DB2. We left Hadoop a while ago.
But the desktop user is different, and comparisons are pointless. Server side apps are different. That space is a real catfight between Microsoft and open source, and Microsoft is facing competition from the big cloud gang, though they are cloud-ing everything they can to keep up.
Claiming users can learn a different desktop, so Linux wins, kinda ignores the transtions from WIndows 3.x to NT to 2000 to 95/XP to Vista/7/8 to now Windows 10. Users *have* learned new desktops. If you leave the exit buttons on the right-hand side of window you solve 90% of that pain... The rest is manageable. Not much harder than dealing with KDE/Gnome/XFCE, and certainly simpler than moving to MacOS.
I was running SUSE desktops for 40+ users mostly browser-based internal app and a custom C++ app, imaging via dd and PXE boot/tftp in 2003. It was possible, and we migrated from Windows XP over 2 months, working. All the usual OOO and stuff working , SMB shares from the preexisting Windows Server while we moved SMTP to a RHEL box
But constant complaints from management that they, they, didn't have the apps they wanted, like Office. And Outlook. Those we reverted back to XP, no big deal, except for the dev having to compile the C++ app more than twice, I dunno, ask HIM, he was a prima donna.
Mind you, the company annoyed their single, sole customer to the point of rejection, and I did not get my last paycheck cashed, but that was before systemd so no doubt it was another Linux desktop failure. /s
It can and is being done, but it requires almost as much learning as Windows does for enterprise deployment. Running everything on your Linux desktop in jail is a start, properly managing user rights, and SSH for administration, collapsing into very limited images, and deciding in advance on your shared resources and not changing them too often sure helps, but we are still in the position where no one loses their job buying IBM hardware and Microsoft software in enterprise situations.
Sure makes more sense than trying to use Apple in the enterprise for anything except creative roles.
Sure, so true, because after all the manufacturers will take this article (and the fine /. writeup), post it on the bulletin board, and the product teams will study this and make the minimum changes to address those, and only those, deficiencies.
Sadly, people think less of manufacturers every day. I would expect that they will also consider signing their data, oh, damn, you missed that.
Feh.
I'm arguing neither. Our republic regularly permits either to occur.
ps-i heard your dog whistle...
As in reading a real physical newspaper made the news real somehow?
So, if you were known to the 'monitoring folks' in more than one community, this would be pretty cool, huh?
Nice place you live in, with undetectable population change. I'm being 0) snarky - no, you don't live in such a place, and 1) supportive - living among lifelong neighbors is a huge blessing. Cherish that.
Perhaps your education has failed you. The Electoral College was designed to lessen the impact of populous states, minimizing their ability to rule the less populous states. I always thought it was a convenient process in the day of horses, but no, I was wrong. And even then, the Founders and authors of our Constitution had given much thought and demonstrated great wisdom, for indeed Presidential election results prove their fears were warranted. The most recent election shows voting results by county support the contention that urban areas tended to vote in one way, less-urban and rural areas voting in another. As the United *States* of America, we are a unique nation in many ways.
Likewise, the House of Representatives was constituted to minimize the impact of 'slave' states, where it could not, with a straight face at least, accept that slaves could vote, and therefore the 'free' non-slave 'permitting' states) would have had disproportionate representation but without actual votes of free men.
Ultimately it took, what, three Amendments to the Constitution to resolve these errors? Or four?
QR codes, online registration, post-election confirmation with QR code receipt and previously entered secret something.
This will leave the poor and uneducated behind, which is reason enough to avoid electronic voting and stick to scanned paper ballots.
By 'party', I assume you intended to write 'candidate'.
There is a difference.
"Heritage Foundation, a neocon election rigging foundation with a stated aim of reducing the people allowed to vote as a means to winning elections."
Citation, please?
She went through surgery, repaired the conduction issue, and has had more than 20 years symptom free.
Building codes.