Still no way to directly buy Sailfish X if you're American. According to all of my googling, you still have to access through a VPN.
Would love to know the logic of turning us down, but embracing Russia and China where there is nowhere near enough disposable income for people to buy a second phone and an OS license just to try it out.
It's HuffPo. Therefore SJW-sympathetic. So we can reliably conclude, especially given one of the links has a URL saying "don't call us Nazis just because we take their money" that this is really about building public support for making Cloudflare drop anyone who says things that are politically incorrect. Just another bait and switch.
Irony is that most of the people contributing to the content in TFS probably support those groups because they're anti-Israel.
My money is on Cloudflare keeping those sites up because someone in the SIGINT community sent them a notice informing them and saying "please keep them up and send us logs, k thx."
The fact that this happened right as Trump was smoothing things out with Xi can only be explained by a willful desire by DoJ staffers to make it blow up in Trump's face. It looks like aside from John Bolton, no one in the cabinet even knew that the DoJ was planning a move that amounts to making foreign policy.
Make no mistake. This move by the DoJ during the trade negotiations was no less aggressive and "making foreign policy" than if the DoD decided to move an entire carrier battle group off the shore of one of China's disputed islands and fly half its aircraft in a very aggressive, simulated bombing run of the PLA forces stationed there.
Distributism is the solution to a lot of our problems from net neutrality to healthcare.
Unlike Capitalism or Socialism, it offers a third way on such areas where the profit motive can damage the public good and where Socialism creates a sclerotic business environment. That way is based on using non-profits that are allowed to profit reasonably for the purpose of advancing their mission, but they derive their charter and authority by a public commission to act in the public interest. They are not state-owned; the government could also give the equivalent of a letter patent to an existing non-profit giving it legal charge over a public issue. For example, the federal government could abolish the park service and give the Sierra Club a letter patent authorizing them to act in its stead.
So under that system, Big Town A sets up a chartered corporation for these public purposes. The state then authorizes a letter patent authorizing it to enter into new markets that are under-served. They could even go so far as to authorize it to intervene as a legal authority over for-profit corporations that seek to exploit existing relationships.
The group writes, "Veloz recognizes that, while electric car sales are increasing at a rapid clip, it is not happening fast enough to achieve the deep cuts in emissions that the state needs to achieve to protect people's health and curb negative impacts on the environment."
California is one of the few states where it is clear that they're exhausting their state's ability to support population growth. Yet the state at all levels continues to pull for as many immigrants as they can get. Doesn't matter whether they're legal or illegal, California wants them! All of the water-related stresses are a sign that this situation is not maintainable going forward under their current attitudes.
If they were serious politically, they'd be building metro systems left and right that connect whole cities and their suburbs. They'd push through SLAPP-like laws that allow the state to punish NIMBYism and environmental activists who sue without a damn good reason. There is a lot the state could do within its budget to build practical solutions to protect its environment, but there are only a few politically-acceptable solutions that don't risk goring a sacred cow.
There are few people I think of in the Congress who should conspicuously STFU on the matter of "not doing their job" more than our/VA's two senators. As governors, they ran the state government without a near ZFG attitude toward maintaining our roads. Democrat gets elected in our state? Better buy used SUV because you're going to risk busting an axle due to potholes nearly deep enough to swallow the tire of a mid sized sedan.
Our current governor seems to be following in this time-honored tradition of theirs, but at least the poor are getting more "free shit" via Medicaid. God knows they'll probably need it to make up for what's not being funded.
The whole point of Visual Basic is to enable those people you say "lost your job? Learn to code" to use something that is less daunting and more practical. It was designed to be a tool for someone who has a simple idea and wants to either automate their own business or sell something to a niche market and make a middle class living.
Visual Basic was and is night and day better in many cases there than Node, Python, etc. You couldn't ask for something simpler than "draw the UI and start writing event handlers" for a basic, tiny app just getting started.
The FTC, FCC, etc. would function a lot better if they were normal executive branch agencies and this post were a political appointee. No president would want to waste their time on a guy who would get such an obvious "lol, gtfo" from the Senate upon submission and it coming out that 20% of the fortune 500 cannot be investigated by him.
You go out in public, you have virtually no expectation of privacy. End of story.
In fact, if I were a privacy activist, I would offer a sweet deal to law enforcement. You can track public movements all you want without a warrant, but the third party doctrine gets legislatively abolished. GPS trackers, facial recognition? Have it. You'll give us full warrant requirements for stored communications in the deal.
Not long ago, I read an article about how Cuban police will sometimes stop buses to search for contraband food. Is it endangered species they're after? Nope, extra cans of stuff we can legally get off the shelf for about $1 in our Oppressive, Reactionary, Sexist Hellhole.
And you thought checkpoints to make sure people aren't driving drunk or stoned were tyranny. Imagine the police sifting through your groceries to make sure you're not smuggling cans of beans, rice and meat.
This is why I have never understood why seemingly intelligent people point to Cuba and are astounded that they have "good healthcare." That's the natural outcome of what happens when you impoverish your people to that level and then give everyone with an above average IQ only a few state-approved employment choices in STEM. You are going to get a lot of doctors because in any "free society" many of those people would be engineers, scientists and others working in private industry that doesn't exist in Communist Cuba.
Cuban doctors sent to Brazil by their government have said they'd literally rather be trash collectors in Brazil where they're free to make their own choices in a non-totalitarian state than be medical professionals back home.
If the Chinese told Americans doing business with them to not ship their parts to a country under their embargo, you can bet your sweet ass the Ministry for State Security would make an example of you the moment you got to where they could snatch you with permission from the country where you are staying.
China did the same thing to a Rio Tinto executive from Australia. Sent the guy to prison for 8 years for--please don't laugh--corruption and stealing commercial secrets.
It's about time that the Chinese elite started getting hit back as hard as they hit everyone else.
Personally, I hope Trump sends her to Gitmo while they sort out whether to indict her just to make the Chinese elite squirm.
A large part of the value that AWS provides Amazon is that they are able to consume AWS for their own infrastructure, with paying customers helping to defray the cost of operations. In addition to that, Amazon will lose a non-trivial percentage of its best infrastructure people where currently AWS folks are part of the labor pool they can use.
Anyone who edits the human genome with the intent of degrading the child in any fashion is liable to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. If children are going to live with the consequences, then so should doctors and parents. Why do I bring this up? Because there are parents that actually do this now, like some deaf parents that want children who are deaf as well. Editing a child so they cannot hear should at least carry life imprisonment, if not the death penalty for every party involved because that is truly insidious and depraved abuse.
there are people who consider education worthwhile for reasons other than economic efficiency.
And what if I told you that when you are talking about public money the issue of societal ROI is inescapable? There is no good argument for society either footing the cost directly or indirectly (via debt-enslaving the next generation) so that people can learn for "other reasons."
We have an electorate that is an order of magnitude more educated than it was in 1776 and yet falls prey to everything from #FakeNews, to IRS scams perpetrated by a dude with an Indian accent so thick you could cut it with a knife. How is that "educated electorate" appeal working these days?
All of the lovely side effect issues can now be shared by the couple. She can feel bloated and miserable with weight gain problems, and now he can have all the issues that come from confusing his body with both a heaping dose of female hormones and jacking up testosterone at the same time.
I am really surprised that no one has come up with an easily cleanable and reusable fertility test that would allow couples to test for fertility with the same accuracy the current kits have.
China is not a "developing country" anymore. It hasn't been for about 15-20 years, if not longer. It is to us what the US was to Europe in the 1930s, and by then the federal government would have prosecuted the shit out of such an act, but not a damn thing will be done to any Chinese that escaped the South Korean government unless one of the parties brings a big hammer out against China.
Both of our governments could hit the potential labor pool pretty hard by having the Indian government extradite the offenders and then issue proclamations across their media that amount to a worst possible scenario under federal law.
Do that a few times with our government not issuing press releases on the arrests and trial outcomes and there will be little information to dissuade people in India that those guys didn't get fucked good and hard.
The IRS scammers would particularly fun because Impersonating a Federal Agent carries up to 5 years on its own on top of the wire fraud charges.
I think you might have a point there - I'm not sure where all the disparagement towards millenials is coming from.
Mainly the Boomers. No matter the personal politics, it is practically an article of faith that the Boomers are the sexiest, coolest, hardest working generation America has ever had. I don't think there is any generation in American history that has, collectively, disparaged its predecessors and successors to the extent they have.
1/3 of all Boomers intend to leave no inheritance. Think about that for a min. Something is truly rotten with them as a generation**
The majority of voters will not support a setup where law enforcement is locked out of communications apps because civil libertarians are concerned that we might enter into a dystopian Hell if valid warrants can be enforced good and hard on both communication providers and individuals. If you don't want the FBI to grow tremendously in power to coerce individuals into compliance, there needs to be some moderation wherein Facebook and others accept the fact that a valid warrant should prima facie trump privacy rights every day of the week.
MS-13 is a huge gang and their activities are so evil that it was rumored that the US deporting thousands of them back to El Salvador was considered a national security crisis in that country. To put it mildly, the average person would rather have an agent of Hezbollah and mob boss living on both sides of them than have MS-13 active in their community.
If the public has to choose between effective elimination of such groups and their rights, even Ben Franklin would be hard-pressed to not defer to executive power to keep society safe from them. That's a terrible recipe for making this the hill that our rights die on.
Says the person who wants people no-platformed and fired for asserting the existence of only two genders.
There is a basic principle that the left doesn't understand and is doubling down on to its own destruction: "if I cannot trust you to not lie to me in the small things, how can I ever trust you in the things that matter?"
The more "fact checkers" and "scientists" become political, the less credibility they have and rightly so. Politics is where hard facts typically go to die.
is designed to help immigration officers identify applicants likely to become a "public charge" -- that is, a person primarily dependent on government assistance for food, housing, or medical care
The folks whining about this goal and complaining that we need to let in all of the poor from central America by and large not only don't care about our native poor, but openly hate them and make fun of them every chance they can. Beneath all of the platitudes and posturing, progressives and the activists are virtually nothing but assholes on such issues.
China has been working to make Chinese immigrant communities, particularly in the US, a fifth column. Chinese migrants/immigrants have also been problematic all across parts of East Asia and Indonesia as well from other things I've read. Then there is the whole problem of China colonizing Africa with millions of "workers."
First world liberals will continue to ignore the problem, and do things like say "but the King of Belgium was a real bastard in the Congo, so who are we to judge***" as the situation gets worse.
*** Gotta love how liberalism functions as a Christian heresy where you have all of the guilt and shame, but unlike Christianity you have no path of repentance and are collectively responsible for the actions of ever asshole before you (Ez 18 explicitly condemns that for Jews and Christians).
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Still no way to directly buy Sailfish X if you're American. According to all of my googling, you still have to access through a VPN.
Would love to know the logic of turning us down, but embracing Russia and China where there is nowhere near enough disposable income for people to buy a second phone and an OS license just to try it out.
It's HuffPo. Therefore SJW-sympathetic. So we can reliably conclude, especially given one of the links has a URL saying "don't call us Nazis just because we take their money" that this is really about building public support for making Cloudflare drop anyone who says things that are politically incorrect. Just another bait and switch.
Irony is that most of the people contributing to the content in TFS probably support those groups because they're anti-Israel.
My money is on Cloudflare keeping those sites up because someone in the SIGINT community sent them a notice informing them and saying "please keep them up and send us logs, k thx."
"Anytime, buddy!" - Google
The fact that this happened right as Trump was smoothing things out with Xi can only be explained by a willful desire by DoJ staffers to make it blow up in Trump's face. It looks like aside from John Bolton, no one in the cabinet even knew that the DoJ was planning a move that amounts to making foreign policy.
Make no mistake. This move by the DoJ during the trade negotiations was no less aggressive and "making foreign policy" than if the DoD decided to move an entire carrier battle group off the shore of one of China's disputed islands and fly half its aircraft in a very aggressive, simulated bombing run of the PLA forces stationed there.
Distributism is the solution to a lot of our problems from net neutrality to healthcare.
Unlike Capitalism or Socialism, it offers a third way on such areas where the profit motive can damage the public good and where Socialism creates a sclerotic business environment. That way is based on using non-profits that are allowed to profit reasonably for the purpose of advancing their mission, but they derive their charter and authority by a public commission to act in the public interest. They are not state-owned; the government could also give the equivalent of a letter patent to an existing non-profit giving it legal charge over a public issue. For example, the federal government could abolish the park service and give the Sierra Club a letter patent authorizing them to act in its stead.
So under that system, Big Town A sets up a chartered corporation for these public purposes. The state then authorizes a letter patent authorizing it to enter into new markets that are under-served. They could even go so far as to authorize it to intervene as a legal authority over for-profit corporations that seek to exploit existing relationships.
California is one of the few states where it is clear that they're exhausting their state's ability to support population growth. Yet the state at all levels continues to pull for as many immigrants as they can get. Doesn't matter whether they're legal or illegal, California wants them! All of the water-related stresses are a sign that this situation is not maintainable going forward under their current attitudes.
If they were serious politically, they'd be building metro systems left and right that connect whole cities and their suburbs. They'd push through SLAPP-like laws that allow the state to punish NIMBYism and environmental activists who sue without a damn good reason. There is a lot the state could do within its budget to build practical solutions to protect its environment, but there are only a few politically-acceptable solutions that don't risk goring a sacred cow.
There are few people I think of in the Congress who should conspicuously STFU on the matter of "not doing their job" more than our/VA's two senators. As governors, they ran the state government without a near ZFG attitude toward maintaining our roads. Democrat gets elected in our state? Better buy used SUV because you're going to risk busting an axle due to potholes nearly deep enough to swallow the tire of a mid sized sedan.
Our current governor seems to be following in this time-honored tradition of theirs, but at least the poor are getting more "free shit" via Medicaid. God knows they'll probably need it to make up for what's not being funded.
The whole point of Visual Basic is to enable those people you say "lost your job? Learn to code" to use something that is less daunting and more practical. It was designed to be a tool for someone who has a simple idea and wants to either automate their own business or sell something to a niche market and make a middle class living.
Visual Basic was and is night and day better in many cases there than Node, Python, etc. You couldn't ask for something simpler than "draw the UI and start writing event handlers" for a basic, tiny app just getting started.
The FTC, FCC, etc. would function a lot better if they were normal executive branch agencies and this post were a political appointee. No president would want to waste their time on a guy who would get such an obvious "lol, gtfo" from the Senate upon submission and it coming out that 20% of the fortune 500 cannot be investigated by him.
If you have a 9-5 in DC, Atlanta or LA you probably pull 33 hours in a single month.
You go out in public, you have virtually no expectation of privacy. End of story.
In fact, if I were a privacy activist, I would offer a sweet deal to law enforcement. You can track public movements all you want without a warrant, but the third party doctrine gets legislatively abolished. GPS trackers, facial recognition? Have it. You'll give us full warrant requirements for stored communications in the deal.
Not long ago, I read an article about how Cuban police will sometimes stop buses to search for contraband food. Is it endangered species they're after? Nope, extra cans of stuff we can legally get off the shelf for about $1 in our Oppressive, Reactionary, Sexist Hellhole.
And you thought checkpoints to make sure people aren't driving drunk or stoned were tyranny. Imagine the police sifting through your groceries to make sure you're not smuggling cans of beans, rice and meat.
This is why I have never understood why seemingly intelligent people point to Cuba and are astounded that they have "good healthcare." That's the natural outcome of what happens when you impoverish your people to that level and then give everyone with an above average IQ only a few state-approved employment choices in STEM. You are going to get a lot of doctors because in any "free society" many of those people would be engineers, scientists and others working in private industry that doesn't exist in Communist Cuba.
Cuban doctors sent to Brazil by their government have said they'd literally rather be trash collectors in Brazil where they're free to make their own choices in a non-totalitarian state than be medical professionals back home.
If the Chinese told Americans doing business with them to not ship their parts to a country under their embargo, you can bet your sweet ass the Ministry for State Security would make an example of you the moment you got to where they could snatch you with permission from the country where you are staying.
China did the same thing to a Rio Tinto executive from Australia. Sent the guy to prison for 8 years for--please don't laugh--corruption and stealing commercial secrets.
It's about time that the Chinese elite started getting hit back as hard as they hit everyone else.
Personally, I hope Trump sends her to Gitmo while they sort out whether to indict her just to make the Chinese elite squirm.
A large part of the value that AWS provides Amazon is that they are able to consume AWS for their own infrastructure, with paying customers helping to defray the cost of operations. In addition to that, Amazon will lose a non-trivial percentage of its best infrastructure people where currently AWS folks are part of the labor pool they can use.
Anyone who edits the human genome with the intent of degrading the child in any fashion is liable to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. If children are going to live with the consequences, then so should doctors and parents. Why do I bring this up? Because there are parents that actually do this now, like some deaf parents that want children who are deaf as well. Editing a child so they cannot hear should at least carry life imprisonment, if not the death penalty for every party involved because that is truly insidious and depraved abuse.
And what if I told you that when you are talking about public money the issue of societal ROI is inescapable? There is no good argument for society either footing the cost directly or indirectly (via debt-enslaving the next generation) so that people can learn for "other reasons."
We have an electorate that is an order of magnitude more educated than it was in 1776 and yet falls prey to everything from #FakeNews, to IRS scams perpetrated by a dude with an Indian accent so thick you could cut it with a knife. How is that "educated electorate" appeal working these days?
All of the lovely side effect issues can now be shared by the couple. She can feel bloated and miserable with weight gain problems, and now he can have all the issues that come from confusing his body with both a heaping dose of female hormones and jacking up testosterone at the same time.
I am really surprised that no one has come up with an easily cleanable and reusable fertility test that would allow couples to test for fertility with the same accuracy the current kits have.
China is not a "developing country" anymore. It hasn't been for about 15-20 years, if not longer. It is to us what the US was to Europe in the 1930s, and by then the federal government would have prosecuted the shit out of such an act, but not a damn thing will be done to any Chinese that escaped the South Korean government unless one of the parties brings a big hammer out against China.
Both of our governments could hit the potential labor pool pretty hard by having the Indian government extradite the offenders and then issue proclamations across their media that amount to a worst possible scenario under federal law.
Do that a few times with our government not issuing press releases on the arrests and trial outcomes and there will be little information to dissuade people in India that those guys didn't get fucked good and hard.
The IRS scammers would particularly fun because Impersonating a Federal Agent carries up to 5 years on its own on top of the wire fraud charges.
Mainly the Boomers. No matter the personal politics, it is practically an article of faith that the Boomers are the sexiest, coolest, hardest working generation America has ever had. I don't think there is any generation in American history that has, collectively, disparaged its predecessors and successors to the extent they have.
1/3 of all Boomers intend to leave no inheritance. Think about that for a min. Something is truly rotten with them as a generation**
**yes, yes individuals notwithstanding
The majority of voters will not support a setup where law enforcement is locked out of communications apps because civil libertarians are concerned that we might enter into a dystopian Hell if valid warrants can be enforced good and hard on both communication providers and individuals. If you don't want the FBI to grow tremendously in power to coerce individuals into compliance, there needs to be some moderation wherein Facebook and others accept the fact that a valid warrant should prima facie trump privacy rights every day of the week.
MS-13 is a huge gang and their activities are so evil that it was rumored that the US deporting thousands of them back to El Salvador was considered a national security crisis in that country. To put it mildly, the average person would rather have an agent of Hezbollah and mob boss living on both sides of them than have MS-13 active in their community.
If the public has to choose between effective elimination of such groups and their rights, even Ben Franklin would be hard-pressed to not defer to executive power to keep society safe from them. That's a terrible recipe for making this the hill that our rights die on.
Says the person who wants people no-platformed and fired for asserting the existence of only two genders.
There is a basic principle that the left doesn't understand and is doubling down on to its own destruction: "if I cannot trust you to not lie to me in the small things, how can I ever trust you in the things that matter?"
The more "fact checkers" and "scientists" become political, the less credibility they have and rightly so. Politics is where hard facts typically go to die.
The folks whining about this goal and complaining that we need to let in all of the poor from central America by and large not only don't care about our native poor, but openly hate them and make fun of them every chance they can. Beneath all of the platitudes and posturing, progressives and the activists are virtually nothing but assholes on such issues.
China has been working to make Chinese immigrant communities, particularly in the US, a fifth column. Chinese migrants/immigrants have also been problematic all across parts of East Asia and Indonesia as well from other things I've read. Then there is the whole problem of China colonizing Africa with millions of "workers."
First world liberals will continue to ignore the problem, and do things like say "but the King of Belgium was a real bastard in the Congo, so who are we to judge***" as the situation gets worse.
*** Gotta love how liberalism functions as a Christian heresy where you have all of the guilt and shame, but unlike Christianity you have no path of repentance and are collectively responsible for the actions of ever asshole before you (Ez 18 explicitly condemns that for Jews and Christians).