Actually, if you are paying attention, the GOP Establishment/NeoConservative Leadership is much more inclined to go along with the Democrat leadership. It's;
- Simpler. So hard to have to make your point in a hostile media environment, and social media just isn't useful when you are trying to 'explain'.
- Effective. If you're facing non-citizen voters in states that are already pro-Left, then why bother?
- Avoids dealing with your own party rank and file. If you're unable to corral your own party's representatives to pass legislation, why bother? Just go along.
- Preserves your power and influence. the risk of taking a stand on principle is that those who disagree with you may choose some other candidate to support. Running a serious primary campaign is just so hard. Much easier and less risky to spend that time punishing your enemies and rewarding your allies. On both sides of the aisle.
But to your point, I'm unaware of Right/Conservative/GOP violence, but then I rely on non-mainstream media for some of my news, so I miss a lot of propaganda. So other than FBI conspiracies and KKK (AKA Democrats)
As a self-identified Republican, I no longer support the Republican legislative leadership. Priebus I support because he's been doing his job, perhaps with little enthusiasm, but doing it. Trump is the cure to the Republican leadership failure, which began in 1981 with Reagan's takeover of the Conservative movement, then GHW Bush's failed re-election, and has continued despite presidential election successes intervening. 35 years of failed GOP leadership has left us with a party that is led by and populated with elected officials that prefer to go along with the opposition for a variety of reasons, but largely because they have no vision for our nation nor their own political movement. and they have not considered the Conservative wing of the GOP to be a 'movement' for a long time. They have caved, fearing an immigrant swell that could lead to an insurmountable Democrat majority for the foreseeable future, a hostile media that will never be placated by surrender, and a transition to a social media dominated culture that concentrates real media power in corporations that can hide behind algorithms and opaque business practices, the subject of this thread, and wield overwhelming influence without their users recognizing their near-absolute control over the hearts and minds of most of the population.
I expect Trump to burn down the GOP house. It needs to be renewed, and with fire and water, not long knives and moves in the dark. And our nation needs a wakeup. We are changing, and in the midst of a soft revolution. There are changes being made that should be discussed and approved, but the forces for those changes do not care for law and justice, save for their own self-defined goals, which they change at their whims. You may agree with them, and I understand, but my caution to you is this - Today it's to your favor. Tomorrow, it may not be, and you will be bulldozed by the same forces that you applaud today. No rules, no justice.
"He committed behavior that was defined by law to be felonious is why"
Mostly he committed behavior that would be indistinguishable from enforcing federal labor and immigration law. And the Feds don;t like states, counties, or cities enforcing their laws when they don't want to.
Pink jumpsuits, bologna sandwiches, and tents are not cruel and unusual. Visiting businesses accused by citizens of violating labor law isn't either. La Raza is not the watchdog group you think it is.
And if you buy right, you can root them and find new ROMs or roll your own.
You may have access to a community college teaching Android development, willing to roll a ROM for you. And you can at least get Kahn Academy to run on them and keep going.
Battery life is perhaps a blessing - as the batteries start to suffer, students learn to use their tablets just for school work or get dinged for late submissions. Less Facebook, more Kahn, win.
They are more like the store manager of a company-owned McDonald's. Implement policy, meet targets, get paid a salary without profit-sharing. Every strategic decision is made at Corporate. Every tactical decision is examined and graded against results.
It's a miserable existence, made tolerable only by above average pay and opportunities for advancement. Ha.
You haven't seen Common Core 8th grade math, have you?
Vertice Edge Graphs
Slope of a function
I'm a little amazed that they are trying to teach what I suffered through in Algebra II. my junior high school year.
And more surprised that they refuse to teach multiplication tables, 'traditional' long division, 'traditional' multiplication.
Schools should be teaching 2nd graders to play cribbage to learn addition. I shocked every teacher that tried to teach me addition of columns of numbers by treating many 2 digits as a single item (6+9=15, 8+7=15, 5+5+5=15) and explaining that they were 'fifteens'. I taught a few teachers to play cribbage.
Subtraction comes from addition for teachers that can express it. Many think it is different, of course.
Math is a terribly badly taught subject. Most believe it is a talent, but it is best understood as a language. Like music.
TCP/IP mostly came form Stanford, Xerox (PARC again!), and UC London.
Then it got useful for local networks with work on Ethernet from, where else, PARC, U Hawaii, and UICU (which now prefers UIUC just to annoy us NovaNET alumni).
And the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has a largely ignored history of contributions to modern computing and Internet capabilities, from Ethernet to instant messaging to computer-based training, lots of interesting stuff.
And many alumni that were powerhouses early on; Marc Andreessen, Ray Ozzie, Don Bitzer, Steve Chen, Lemuel Davis, Bob Miner,Larry Ellison, and a few others
At one time Microsoft hired more from UIUC than any other school.
Mostly running on US-made CPUs, enabled by US-designed gear.
It's a pointless exercise. Move on to something more interesting, like how likely is it that your Chinese-made whatever has some interesting firmware waiting to be activated.
European unity is unlikely to occur within my lifetime, and I have some appreciable time left. Too many old conflicts yet unresolved, too much racism, too much unenlightened self-interest.
No, Hitler merely repeated Napoleon's error, and ultimately met the same fate.
The Americans etc.destroyed much German war capability, driving them back to Berlin. The Russians sapped the Nazis' eastern front and with just a little material help from the Americans counterattacked and pincered the Nazis. Had the Americans slowed we would have seen the Soviet empire established with a western border on France and maybe Belgium. whether that would have been better or not I would leave to your imagination.
We could debate the potential success of the Allies if Russia had not counterattacked, but I'm thinking that Hitler's greatest weakness was believing he was a military strategist. Killing Nazi generals was the best Allied strategy, leaving him with successively junior and weaker staff, less likely to speak up and challenge his worst ideas. But any significant delay in defeating Nazi Germany could have resulted in a nuclear weapon being detonated either on the Continent or on Britain, and we would have a very, very different world than we do now. Japan was so isolated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were considered events 'somewhere else' by most of the world, and underappreciated for the gravity and potential except for the US and Russian leadership, who entirely understood that any singular advantage in nuclear weapons could result in worldwide destruction or hegemony, with no middle ground.
Thank your luck stars that the US held the early advantage. The Soviet Empire would not have hesitated to use such leverage to brutal effect, and that would be a different world also. The US had very different aspirations for world influence, and that made a difference to the relative benefit of the world.
Unlike PAL, we let users fiddle with knobs back then, so they could get bright colors instead of pastels. Yes, this could give you green people on game shows.
SECAM seemed to have found a way to include the lesser of the other standards, mostly it seems to improve reception. And still pastels. Mostly just to be different.
ATSC and DVB don't need to give you color control, but most sets do as a user feature. We love controls, even if they are unnecessary.
Virtually all mainstream media is in collusion with the hegemony that is the Democratic Party, the Republican party leadership, the federal bureaucracy, popular media, banking, and the capital markets worldwide. Only those not paying attention or those relying only on the most popular and most loyal media for their information. You wonder why I include the Republican Party leadership? Do not. They are only interested in preserving their positions of power. They collude with their traditional opposition to do so, and have for more 30 years or more.
This is indisputable.
The actions of Facebook and others, especially Twitter (which is the worst), in deleting or censoring right-wing and conservative thought are undeniable. This occurs regularly without explanation or acknowledgement, and has been happening since before this election cycle. Even the last cycle. The state of affairs is such that they, the hegemony, are becoming brazen and overt. This is unfortunate for them, for there are fewer secrets than ever.
I appreciate the advice to avoid commenting for fear that I will burn karma, but the truth is always an offense to the guilty and the ignorant. I plead with the ignorant to look carefully and make up their minds.
Some, who value more enlightened discussions, or resent the FB data grabs, and the FB way of ignoring your preference to see what has happened in your sphere most recently and instead try to force feed you what THEY think is most relevant.
Relevance being defined by THEM, to THEIR purposes.
G+ isn't big. That's not even the best thing about it. You, however, I doubt have even actually used it beyond a single visit and thinking 'wow, there's no one here'. You were not missed.
Slashdot Mirror
Not any more. "Don't get caught" is the new mantra.
And as they find the insurgents that expose them, the algorithms will be tuned to crush opposition.
Actually, if you are paying attention, the GOP Establishment/NeoConservative Leadership is much more inclined to go along with the Democrat leadership. It's;
- Simpler. So hard to have to make your point in a hostile media environment, and social media just isn't useful when you are trying to 'explain'.
- Effective. If you're facing non-citizen voters in states that are already pro-Left, then why bother?
- Avoids dealing with your own party rank and file. If you're unable to corral your own party's representatives to pass legislation, why bother? Just go along.
- Preserves your power and influence. the risk of taking a stand on principle is that those who disagree with you may choose some other candidate to support. Running a serious primary campaign is just so hard. Much easier and less risky to spend that time punishing your enemies and rewarding your allies. On both sides of the aisle.
But to your point, I'm unaware of Right/Conservative/GOP violence, but then I rely on non-mainstream media for some of my news, so I miss a lot of propaganda. So other than FBI conspiracies and KKK (AKA Democrats)
As a self-identified Republican, I no longer support the Republican legislative leadership. Priebus I support because he's been doing his job, perhaps with little enthusiasm, but doing it. Trump is the cure to the Republican leadership failure, which began in 1981 with Reagan's takeover of the Conservative movement, then GHW Bush's failed re-election, and has continued despite presidential election successes intervening. 35 years of failed GOP leadership has left us with a party that is led by and populated with elected officials that prefer to go along with the opposition for a variety of reasons, but largely because they have no vision for our nation nor their own political movement. and they have not considered the Conservative wing of the GOP to be a 'movement' for a long time. They have caved, fearing an immigrant swell that could lead to an insurmountable Democrat majority for the foreseeable future, a hostile media that will never be placated by surrender, and a transition to a social media dominated culture that concentrates real media power in corporations that can hide behind algorithms and opaque business practices, the subject of this thread, and wield overwhelming influence without their users recognizing their near-absolute control over the hearts and minds of most of the population.
I expect Trump to burn down the GOP house. It needs to be renewed, and with fire and water, not long knives and moves in the dark. And our nation needs a wakeup. We are changing, and in the midst of a soft revolution. There are changes being made that should be discussed and approved, but the forces for those changes do not care for law and justice, save for their own self-defined goals, which they change at their whims. You may agree with them, and I understand, but my caution to you is this - Today it's to your favor. Tomorrow, it may not be, and you will be bulldozed by the same forces that you applaud today. No rules, no justice.
He could have used 511. That would be annoying but not endangering.
"He committed behavior that was defined by law to be felonious is why"
Mostly he committed behavior that would be indistinguishable from enforcing federal labor and immigration law. And the Feds don;t like states, counties, or cities enforcing their laws when they don't want to.
Pink jumpsuits, bologna sandwiches, and tents are not cruel and unusual. Visiting businesses accused by citizens of violating labor law isn't either. La Raza is not the watchdog group you think it is.
And if you buy right, you can root them and find new ROMs or roll your own.
You may have access to a community college teaching Android development, willing to roll a ROM for you. And you can at least get Kahn Academy to run on them and keep going.
Battery life is perhaps a blessing - as the batteries start to suffer, students learn to use their tablets just for school work or get dinged for late submissions. Less Facebook, more Kahn, win.
They are more like the store manager of a company-owned McDonald's. Implement policy, meet targets, get paid a salary without profit-sharing. Every strategic decision is made at Corporate. Every tactical decision is examined and graded against results.
It's a miserable existence, made tolerable only by above average pay and opportunities for advancement. Ha.
You haven't seen Common Core 8th grade math, have you?
Vertice Edge Graphs
Slope of a function
I'm a little amazed that they are trying to teach what I suffered through in Algebra II. my junior high school year.
And more surprised that they refuse to teach multiplication tables, 'traditional' long division, 'traditional' multiplication.
Schools should be teaching 2nd graders to play cribbage to learn addition. I shocked every teacher that tried to teach me addition of columns of numbers by treating many 2 digits as a single item (6+9=15, 8+7=15, 5+5+5=15) and explaining that they were 'fifteens'. I taught a few teachers to play cribbage.
Subtraction comes from addition for teachers that can express it. Many think it is different, of course.
Math is a terribly badly taught subject. Most believe it is a talent, but it is best understood as a language. Like music.
The media entirely endorses Hillary and that's not giving her a landslide.
Splitting the Democrat vote isn't the same thing as winning Republican votes...
finally
I keep adjusting my sarcasm filter, and it just doesn't work during this election.
Must be me.
TCP/IP mostly came form Stanford, Xerox (PARC again!), and UC London.
Then it got useful for local networks with work on Ethernet from, where else, PARC, U Hawaii, and UICU (which now prefers UIUC just to annoy us NovaNET alumni).
And the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has a largely ignored history of contributions to modern computing and Internet capabilities, from Ethernet to instant messaging to computer-based training, lots of interesting stuff.
And many alumni that were powerhouses early on; Marc Andreessen, Ray Ozzie, Don Bitzer, Steve Chen, Lemuel Davis, Bob Miner,Larry Ellison, and a few others
At one time Microsoft hired more from UIUC than any other school.
And even you ignore Tesla. SO sad.
Mostly running on US-made CPUs, enabled by US-designed gear.
It's a pointless exercise. Move on to something more interesting, like how likely is it that your Chinese-made whatever has some interesting firmware waiting to be activated.
European unity is unlikely to occur within my lifetime, and I have some appreciable time left. Too many old conflicts yet unresolved, too much racism, too much unenlightened self-interest.
No, Hitler merely repeated Napoleon's error, and ultimately met the same fate.
The Americans etc.destroyed much German war capability, driving them back to Berlin. The Russians sapped the Nazis' eastern front and with just a little material help from the Americans counterattacked and pincered the Nazis. Had the Americans slowed we would have seen the Soviet empire established with a western border on France and maybe Belgium. whether that would have been better or not I would leave to your imagination.
We could debate the potential success of the Allies if Russia had not counterattacked, but I'm thinking that Hitler's greatest weakness was believing he was a military strategist. Killing Nazi generals was the best Allied strategy, leaving him with successively junior and weaker staff, less likely to speak up and challenge his worst ideas. But any significant delay in defeating Nazi Germany could have resulted in a nuclear weapon being detonated either on the Continent or on Britain, and we would have a very, very different world than we do now. Japan was so isolated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were considered events 'somewhere else' by most of the world, and underappreciated for the gravity and potential except for the US and Russian leadership, who entirely understood that any singular advantage in nuclear weapons could result in worldwide destruction or hegemony, with no middle ground.
Thank your luck stars that the US held the early advantage. The Soviet Empire would not have hesitated to use such leverage to brutal effect, and that would be a different world also. The US had very different aspirations for world influence, and that made a difference to the relative benefit of the world.
Spying is in the Old Testament. Some things are so obvious they are ubiquitous and have been for all known history.
And this combination of arrogance and ignorance has been an affliction within Europe for centuries, the cause of many a war.
Unlike PAL, we let users fiddle with knobs back then, so they could get bright colors instead of pastels. Yes, this could give you green people on game shows.
SECAM seemed to have found a way to include the lesser of the other standards, mostly it seems to improve reception. And still pastels. Mostly just to be different.
ATSC and DVB don't need to give you color control, but most sets do as a user feature. We love controls, even if they are unnecessary.
Neither of which envisioned the Internet, which made those things either useful or vastly more useful than before.
Thank Stanford, MIT, Cornell, UICU, and DARPA for that. Now go and benefit from these efforts.
Virtually all mainstream media is in collusion with the hegemony that is the Democratic Party, the Republican party leadership, the federal bureaucracy, popular media, banking, and the capital markets worldwide. Only those not paying attention or those relying only on the most popular and most loyal media for their information. You wonder why I include the Republican Party leadership? Do not. They are only interested in preserving their positions of power. They collude with their traditional opposition to do so, and have for more 30 years or more.
This is indisputable.
The actions of Facebook and others, especially Twitter (which is the worst), in deleting or censoring right-wing and conservative thought are undeniable. This occurs regularly without explanation or acknowledgement, and has been happening since before this election cycle. Even the last cycle. The state of affairs is such that they, the hegemony, are becoming brazen and overt. This is unfortunate for them, for there are fewer secrets than ever.
I appreciate the advice to avoid commenting for fear that I will burn karma, but the truth is always an offense to the guilty and the ignorant. I plead with the ignorant to look carefully and make up their minds.
The guilty are beyond redemption at this point.
"But if Google+ went down would anybody notice :D"
Some, who value more enlightened discussions, or resent the FB data grabs, and the FB way of ignoring your preference to see what has happened in your sphere most recently and instead try to force feed you what THEY think is most relevant.
Relevance being defined by THEM, to THEIR purposes.
G+ isn't big. That's not even the best thing about it. You, however, I doubt have even actually used it beyond a single visit and thinking 'wow, there's no one here'. You were not missed.
PayPal *is* a bank in every way that is meaningful for payments tech.
Blockchain currencies offer similar security. It's in there.
TANSTAAFL