A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. He is to be entrusted with the administration of the common Government, because he has declared that that “Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free,” and that the public mind must rest in the belief that slavery is in the course of ultimate extinction. This sectional combination for the submersion of the Constitution, has been aided in some of the States by elevating to citizenship, persons who, by the supreme law of the land, are incapable of becoming citizens; and their votes have been used to inaugurate a new policy, hostile to the South, and destructive of its beliefs and safety.
Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery—the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin
As a separate republic, Louisiana remembers too well the whisperings of European diplomacy for the abolition of slavery in the times of annexation not to be apprehensive of bolder demonstrations from the same quarter and the North in this country. The people of the slave holding States are bound together by the same necessity and determination to preserve African slavery.
Upon the principles then announced by Mr. Lincoln and his leading friends, we are bound to expect his administration to be conducted. Hence it is, that in high places, among the Republican party, the election of Mr. Lincoln is hailed, not simply as it change of Administration, but as the inauguration of new principles, and a new theory of Government, and even as the downfall of slavery. Therefore it is that the election of Mr. Lincoln cannot be regarded otherwise than a solemn declaration, on the part of a great majority of the Northern people, of hostility to the South, her property and her institutions—nothing less than an open declaration of war—for the triumph of this new theory of Government destroys the property of the South, lays waste her fields, and inaugurates all the horrors of a San Domingo servile insurrection, consigning her citizens to assassinations, and. her wives and daughters to pollution and violation, to gratify the lust of half-civilized
No, but for $10 more you can get Sling TV. It's not $500 channels, but I've selected a package more to my liking than I ever could have with $80+ cable.
My only concern now is throttling, to which I'll respond with a cheap VPN account.
The current system is probably not going to do that. After two terms domestic issues tend to pile up and convince voters to try something new. If Trump can manage to keep people happy for 8 years that's fine, but don't count on it.
If electronics become too expensive for the average consumer, we'll just keep what we have and buy used from the wealthier folks. Meanwhile, I hope the remaining manufacturers get the message and build things that last longer and are easier to repair.
Thanks for mentioning countries that didn't have the industrial base to meet world demand. I wasn't specific enough in my own post.
I tend to think that with great prosperity, came great ease. We could finally afford to think about the environment and take care of some things. Then, just as we started to act, economical and trade issues developed and decades later we're straddled with this narrative that we can't be good stewards of the Earth or... regulate anything really... without completely wrecking the economy.
The great ease bought by easy money left us, and we're again desperately clawing for any avenue to avoid bankruptcy. Regulation, of anything, has reduced itself to being a tool to mete out favors, pick winners and losers, with both sides doing it. Now, everyone lacks in credibility when they stand before us declaring they have the solution for what ails the country.
Immigration, abortions, gay adoptions, and gun ownership might get easier or harder with passing administrations, and pot may one day be legal, but where things really matter - the collapsing ecosystem and your dwindling paycheck... it's always just more of the same.
1880's to 1920's. You know the story: sweat shops, robber barons, child labor, Pinkerton, etc. The 1950's and 60's brought us great wealth, but we were also the only untouched first-world country after the war. Thus, we were able to afford some concern about pollution, conservation, welfare, civil rights and the like. Taxes were high and business was good... until the Oil Crisis in the 70's. We've been in trouble ever since.
California's waver is up for renewal in 2025. One plan is to let that expire in order to force the state's environmental policy to fall in line behind the federal rollback. Until then, expect most US cars to not deviate far from that standard... with some exceptions (like the reintroduction of the small truck in other states).
Trump's up for reelection in two years. If you can get him out of there, and if he doesn't succeed in revoking it early, you can protect California's emission regulations. If you can protect their regulations, you provide the rest of America some semblance of coverage until the new administration comes in.
Even in the worst case, the lobbyists must succeed in rolling back regulations worldwide for there to be an appreciable difference here at home. I know the article tries to make that seem like a certainty, but I think it's just fear mongering. I half expected them to suggest that the government would ban catalytic converters and reintroduce leaded gasoline.
I'm not unsympathetic. Just be mindful that everyone has an agenda, and that everyone wants to get you upset.
If you're worried about performance, don't install the new firmware. The Windows patch can't mitigate Spectre/Meltdown without it, and you'll have to do it yourself. If you're worried about security... I guess you're boned no matter what.
Just do what you probably always do: keep regular backups, keep an updated antivirus, use adblock, and avoid shady websites.
It's unfortunate that the handling of domestic terrorists has become a partisan issue. The left has bomb throwing SJWs, the right has torch wielding Nazi thugs. In the face of their behavior - where they beat, maim, and kill innocent Americans - we're left paralyzed, unable to respond, unable to even quantify the problem in consistent language.
If you have a wild side and want to live dangerously, try committing to some shitty burger tourism, I recommend the Hermitage TN Jack in the Box. It will really leave you asking, "am I going to get food poisoning from eating this?"
A1 in awfulness, best worst service, glad I didn't get sick, will never eat there again! F++++++
The thing about these people is that not only do they believe the foreign trolls, they eagerly do their dirty work as well. It affirms who they are as a people to see so much undue influence everywhere.
That's bad, but until we tie accounts to identity, they would do it all themselves if we did anything about the foreigners.
If you run Google Earth Pro (the application, not the web app), you can see how the new stuff is layered on top of the old stuff in a way that might not be as apparent in the Google Maps app.
By default, Google Earth looks a lot like Google Maps - especially the browser version.
If you turn off 3D Buildings in Google Earth Pro, it drops back to projecting 2D satellite photos on topography. This is how it looks in the Google Maps Android app.
If you turn off terrain, that topography disappears and the ground is perfectly flat. Now you're working with data that's available to the old Android apps.
You can't turn off the satellite textures in Google Earth, but if you could, that would just leave the roads and street names. This is what was available to the first Android and Java apps.
New versions of Google Maps will load new layers, but so long that Google maintains the old layers and the format it is stored in, there's no legitimate reason why old versions of Google Maps couldn't load it and simply ignore the new stuff.
Though I have no experience, I'd guess it's this way because the database is being updated constantly, and not just for every official release. I can imagine they don't want to have to keep things updated while also updating the format, so instead, they just created one good extensible database and add to that in layers as new features become available.
Someday, years from now, we'll be marveling at the fact that Google Earth Pro still works, and still accesses all the new GIS data, years after Google abandoned it in favor of the web app. Sure, it won't support holographic teleportation targeting, but it'll still do what it was designed to do 10 years prior.
I imagine that it's really easy to be a right winger these days. You wouldn't question God, so why would you question the Party of God? There's only a few people and news outlets you trust, and a single narrative that's shared by them all. If there are any questions, it's answered quickly by The Party. There's no reason to investigate, collect data, or consult specialists - in fact, to do so would mark you as an enemy, or at the very least, someone who has lost his way and needs to get with the program.
If you use Reddit, you can subscribe to tech related subreddits and install the Reddit Enhancement Suite to filter out news you don't want to see. That should more than replace Slashdot, and provided you don't read the comments you should feel pretty safe there.
The intrinsic value if Bitcoin is based in the amount of suckers remaining. They think they're the clever ones who can make money with it, but everyday they are becoming wise to the whole scam and getting out with what they can. Thus, the precipitous drop.
Slashdot Mirror
That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about the Civil War to dispute it.
Na, just kidding.
South Carolina
A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. He is to be entrusted with the administration of the common Government, because he has declared that that “Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free,” and that the public mind must rest in the belief that slavery is in the course of ultimate extinction. This sectional combination for the submersion of the Constitution, has been aided in some of the States by elevating to citizenship, persons who, by the supreme law of the land, are incapable of becoming citizens; and their votes have been used to inaugurate a new policy, hostile to the South, and destructive of its beliefs and safety.
Mississippi
Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery—the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin
Louisiana
As a separate republic, Louisiana remembers too well the whisperings of European diplomacy for the abolition of slavery in the times of annexation not to be apprehensive of bolder demonstrations from the same quarter and the North in this country. The people of the slave holding States are bound together by the same necessity and determination to preserve African slavery.
Alabama
Upon the principles then announced by Mr. Lincoln and his leading friends, we are bound to expect his administration to be conducted. Hence it is, that in high places, among the Republican party, the election of Mr. Lincoln is hailed, not simply as it change of Administration, but as the inauguration of new principles, and a new theory of Government, and even as the downfall of slavery. Therefore it is that the election of Mr. Lincoln cannot be regarded otherwise than a solemn declaration, on the part of a great majority of the Northern people, of hostility to the South, her property and her institutions—nothing less than an open declaration of war—for the triumph of this new theory of Government destroys the property of the South, lays waste her fields, and inaugurates all the horrors of a San Domingo servile insurrection, consigning her citizens to assassinations, and. her wives and daughters to pollution and violation, to gratify the lust of half-civilized
500 the number, not the dollar amount...
No, but for $10 more you can get Sling TV. It's not $500 channels, but I've selected a package more to my liking than I ever could have with $80+ cable.
My only concern now is throttling, to which I'll respond with a cheap VPN account.
The people who depend on illegal immigrant labor also vote Republican. I don't think they have anything to fear from them.
It's kind of a relief actually that his term is useful in some way to American interests as opposed to just foreign ones.
The current system is probably not going to do that. After two terms domestic issues tend to pile up and convince voters to try something new. If Trump can manage to keep people happy for 8 years that's fine, but don't count on it.
If electronics become too expensive for the average consumer, we'll just keep what we have and buy used from the wealthier folks. Meanwhile, I hope the remaining manufacturers get the message and build things that last longer and are easier to repair.
Thanks for mentioning countries that didn't have the industrial base to meet world demand. I wasn't specific enough in my own post.
I tend to think that with great prosperity, came great ease. We could finally afford to think about the environment and take care of some things. Then, just as we started to act, economical and trade issues developed and decades later we're straddled with this narrative that we can't be good stewards of the Earth or... regulate anything really... without completely wrecking the economy.
The great ease bought by easy money left us, and we're again desperately clawing for any avenue to avoid bankruptcy. Regulation, of anything, has reduced itself to being a tool to mete out favors, pick winners and losers, with both sides doing it. Now, everyone lacks in credibility when they stand before us declaring they have the solution for what ails the country.
Immigration, abortions, gay adoptions, and gun ownership might get easier or harder with passing administrations, and pot may one day be legal, but where things really matter - the collapsing ecosystem and your dwindling paycheck... it's always just more of the same.
I see Slashdot's the stand-in for the oh-so-necessary livestream discussion that ULA disabled for some reason...
Eh, my timeline's wrong. the 1970's was the environmentalist decade. So, yeah, ignore that post.
1880's to 1920's. You know the story: sweat shops, robber barons, child labor, Pinkerton, etc. The 1950's and 60's brought us great wealth, but we were also the only untouched first-world country after the war. Thus, we were able to afford some concern about pollution, conservation, welfare, civil rights and the like. Taxes were high and business was good... until the Oil Crisis in the 70's. We've been in trouble ever since.
The buck stops somewhere else.
California's waver is up for renewal in 2025. One plan is to let that expire in order to force the state's environmental policy to fall in line behind the federal rollback. Until then, expect most US cars to not deviate far from that standard... with some exceptions (like the reintroduction of the small truck in other states).
Trump's up for reelection in two years. If you can get him out of there, and if he doesn't succeed in revoking it early, you can protect California's emission regulations. If you can protect their regulations, you provide the rest of America some semblance of coverage until the new administration comes in.
Even in the worst case, the lobbyists must succeed in rolling back regulations worldwide for there to be an appreciable difference here at home. I know the article tries to make that seem like a certainty, but I think it's just fear mongering. I half expected them to suggest that the government would ban catalytic converters and reintroduce leaded gasoline.
I'm not unsympathetic. Just be mindful that everyone has an agenda, and that everyone wants to get you upset.
If you're worried about performance, don't install the new firmware. The Windows patch can't mitigate Spectre/Meltdown without it, and you'll have to do it yourself. If you're worried about security... I guess you're boned no matter what.
Just do what you probably always do: keep regular backups, keep an updated antivirus, use adblock, and avoid shady websites.
I'm not convinced of this. I think this is something they wanted to do. FOSTA, bad as it is, is just a convenient cover.
It's unfortunate that the handling of domestic terrorists has become a partisan issue. The left has bomb throwing SJWs, the right has torch wielding Nazi thugs. In the face of their behavior - where they beat, maim, and kill innocent Americans - we're left paralyzed, unable to respond, unable to even quantify the problem in consistent language.
In short, we're fucked.
If you have a wild side and want to live dangerously, try committing to some shitty burger tourism, I recommend the Hermitage TN Jack in the Box. It will really leave you asking, "am I going to get food poisoning from eating this?"
A1 in awfulness, best worst service, glad I didn't get sick, will never eat there again! F++++++
It's gotten so bad even people of like mind are starting to get wise and tune out.
Perhaps with time, your anger will subside, and you won't feel the need to rant about it online in a thinly veiled effort to defend your President.
You know he's great. What does it matter that others disagree?
The thing about these people is that not only do they believe the foreign trolls, they eagerly do their dirty work as well. It affirms who they are as a people to see so much undue influence everywhere.
That's bad, but until we tie accounts to identity, they would do it all themselves if we did anything about the foreigners.
I can't afford a revolution.
If you run Google Earth Pro (the application, not the web app), you can see how the new stuff is layered on top of the old stuff in a way that might not be as apparent in the Google Maps app.
By default, Google Earth looks a lot like Google Maps - especially the browser version.
If you turn off 3D Buildings in Google Earth Pro, it drops back to projecting 2D satellite photos on topography. This is how it looks in the Google Maps Android app.
If you turn off terrain, that topography disappears and the ground is perfectly flat. Now you're working with data that's available to the old Android apps.
You can't turn off the satellite textures in Google Earth, but if you could, that would just leave the roads and street names. This is what was available to the first Android and Java apps.
New versions of Google Maps will load new layers, but so long that Google maintains the old layers and the format it is stored in, there's no legitimate reason why old versions of Google Maps couldn't load it and simply ignore the new stuff.
Though I have no experience, I'd guess it's this way because the database is being updated constantly, and not just for every official release. I can imagine they don't want to have to keep things updated while also updating the format, so instead, they just created one good extensible database and add to that in layers as new features become available.
Someday, years from now, we'll be marveling at the fact that Google Earth Pro still works, and still accesses all the new GIS data, years after Google abandoned it in favor of the web app. Sure, it won't support holographic teleportation targeting, but it'll still do what it was designed to do 10 years prior.
I imagine that it's really easy to be a right winger these days. You wouldn't question God, so why would you question the Party of God? There's only a few people and news outlets you trust, and a single narrative that's shared by them all. If there are any questions, it's answered quickly by The Party. There's no reason to investigate, collect data, or consult specialists - in fact, to do so would mark you as an enemy, or at the very least, someone who has lost his way and needs to get with the program.
If you use Reddit, you can subscribe to tech related subreddits and install the Reddit Enhancement Suite to filter out news you don't want to see. That should more than replace Slashdot, and provided you don't read the comments you should feel pretty safe there.
Maybe that's what he wants you to think.
The intrinsic value if Bitcoin is based in the amount of suckers remaining. They think they're the clever ones who can make money with it, but everyday they are becoming wise to the whole scam and getting out with what they can. Thus, the precipitous drop.