My guess is that he associates with whoever helped him out the most. Democrats, in whatever smoke filled backroom plebes like us aren't privy to, turned their back on him, so he turned his back on them and eventually ran for office on the promise of extracting liberal tears by tearing down Democratic crown jewels.
Now he has the unquestioning loyalty of one entire party and the mandate of the people (electorial college but whatever) to enact his vindictive agenda against those who dared to stand against him in the past.
So yeah, I can't imagine why liberals wouldn't be happy with this. =P
Upgrading the 2012 MBP was a pleasant experience compared to some other laptops I've dealt with. It would be nice if Apple were to give up trying to make the Pro systems into black box appliances, but I can't see that happening any time soon. Whatever... I'm just here for access to the ecosystem.
The sheer number of Retina-era MBPs is finally starting to drive the prices of 2010-2012 (the ones that can be upgraded to 16GB) into a useful price range.
Interesting... just how useful is it to have retina? My eyesight isn't fantastic, I can't see individual pixels from a normal seating distance. Is fidelity the only value the new screens have or am I missing something? Will retina apps look messed up on my computer?
My coworkers are all conservative, but sometimes they complain about something. "There ought to be a law..." and so I have to remind them that these pro-consumer ideas they come up with are too liberal for a conservative, right-minded government like ours.
Liberal policies appeal to the poor and downtrodden, a sector of the population that's only increasing in size and voting power. Therefore, your conservative policies are under continuous threat of being overtaken by "disruptive" progressivism.
This explains the gerrymandering to contain and control liberal, often metropolitan, areas of the US. If you could win by playing fair, you'd do it - but you can't, so you have to rely on a big punitive government to prevent the growth of a big egalitarian one.
The Mid 2012 MBP will accept 16 GB also. I bought one specifically to max it out and use for app development. All together I spent just shy of 550 bucks.
Good used Macs were never this cheap or this good relative to the new models. It really illustrates the slow pace of PC innovation by Apple and maybe the industry as a whole.
While that's a cute proposal (and I agree with it), it's not the prevailing narrative from the people talking about this.
The typical narrative here is that blacks are more violent because of their alleged low average IQs. We're told that as one reason why people should be okay with the idea of separating from one another based on race. If you believe it, you have an easy way to stay safe and to avoid the potential that your children may fall in love with one and produce inferior offspring.
Obviously, the only fix these people will accept is an official return to segregation, or at the very least, a cultural acceptance of our natural tendency to segregate.
As for the Neanderthals, since they're all dead, nobody knows how intelligent they were. We know how big their skull cavities are, but the size of their ancient bones does not clue us in to their intelligence. If it suggests anything for sure, it's that they were better adapted for survival in cold climates.
I still have the very first one. Still running great... though I might replace it with a proper laptop going forward. The form factor is fine. The OS is fine. But I find that I didn't really need Windows on a tablet. I needed Windows on a 15in+ laptop. Everyone is different, and I make great use of it, but for my use cases, a larger, more powerful laptop is preferable - while as far as tablets go for tablet purposes, any old thing with an updated browser and a native Netflix app will do.
Before Trump I'd have agreed with you, but now that they have something to rally around (or fear), I think the fragmentation of the Republican party has at least stopped if not reversed course. There's some outliers, but they don't matter anymore.
But if you want to get into specifics, my main gripe with him is that he promised free college and debt forgiveness, while completely ignoring how the political climate and the lobbying power of that industry would have made that an impossibility. He promised so much in general that the other Democrats were scrambling to counter him. The only one who wasn't doing that, Jim Web, left the race rather than take part in that sham.
Sigh. I'm still not convinced people like you are real, rather than just trolls. I have been coming across people like you more often though... just online thankfully.
I'd be pretty demoralized if I found out I was hired to make a place more diverse. I don't think l that was the case, but lately my place of work has been focusing a lot on diversity, and that makes nervous.
I never see that, but I have seen a guy get hired because he was someone's son. He then proceeded to steal company equipment to pay for a meth habit.
That doesn't make anything okay, I'm just saying it to point out that we don't really live in a meritocracy. At all levels, who you know is a factor that sometimes outranks what you know.
It's just the people who benefit from that are harder to spot.
That's what I didn't get about all the love for Bernie Sanders. The guy was like a candidate for student government promising extended recess and more pizza days. With the government what it is, and being a part of it, he must have pegged some of us for saps.
Coworkers I like become my friends after they leave, or after I leave the company. While I don't take it as far as the previous poster, I tend to agree that it's probably for the best not to confide your deepest vulnerabilities to people capable of using that against you later.
Exactly. It's as bad as it sounds, and also not as bad as it sounds. I don't think most of this is intentional. It's not Jim Crow. It's more a product of our deep seated feelings of one another. That we refuse to acknowledge those biases is a problem, but we've seen worse.
Is it objectively in inner-city blacks' "best interests" to keep voting Democrat and remain mired in poverty for generation after generation?
Do you really think ideology is the solution to everyone's problem? Do you believe your enemy's ideology is itself the cause of everyone's suffering?
While we're sitting here arguing about liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans are either ignoring us or outright raping us. They give us the minimum amount of attention, then they directly target us with punitive laws and regulations for their own personal enrichment.
Going more extreme, and demanding a unified front of all Republicans or all Democrats... will only get you more of the same. Black people voting solid Republican instead of solid Democrat won't help them, just like how a state voting Republican all the time hasn't helped them solve their own perpetual issues.
If everyone voted Republican (or Democrat) 100% of the time, we'd still be fucked. That's because we have fundamental cultural and political problems that prevent us from working with and responding productively to objective data. Everything is about appearances and personal gain. "How will this look if I do X". "How will this affect my reelection campaign?" "Will Evil Corp support me next time around if I do Y?" Next thing you know, you're an ineffectual politician good at only lining your own pockets and your people continue to suffer.
Yeah, you can't peacefully stop all thought even on a forbidden topic. Everyone taking part in it has to willingly agree to give it up. Assuming that's impossible - and it is impossible - even a peaceful method of erasing ideas from other peoples minds would be tyranny.
A trial by jury conviction is uncommon these days. Most of it is the result of a plea deal. When you're poor, and can't afford bail, and will lose your job if you're not there when scheduled, it can be a tempting option to take.
"Just say you did it. We know you did it. Make this easy for everyone. You'll be out of here as soon as you sign this statement. Say you did it. Just say it. Come on. Just say it."
Then you sign your admission, and if the crime is minor enough, they let you go with a fine or time served. You might be innocent, but for statistical purposes, you're part of the "problem".
It's probably worth the concern from the developers writing the code. A lazily written algorithm can serve as an excuse to never question how things are done, even if the injustice caused by it is visible to anyone willing to look.
You really don't need a computer to see this in action. In public schools for instance, a common algorithm used by administrators to avoid making nuanced decisions is Zero Tolerance. A set of simple if-then statements occur after an incident, consistently determining the fate of the student in question in a way that best avoids responsibility. No further questions are asked, no workplace experience is utilized, no risks are taken.
If the administrator's ever asked about the decision he made to expel the high-performing kid with the gun in his car, he can just point to the algorithm.
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It's perfectly fine too close the door on all immigration, they can just go somewhere else. They don't have a right to live and work here.
My guess is that he associates with whoever helped him out the most. Democrats, in whatever smoke filled backroom plebes like us aren't privy to, turned their back on him, so he turned his back on them and eventually ran for office on the promise of extracting liberal tears by tearing down Democratic crown jewels.
Now he has the unquestioning loyalty of one entire party and the mandate of the people (electorial college but whatever) to enact his vindictive agenda against those who dared to stand against him in the past.
So yeah, I can't imagine why liberals wouldn't be happy with this. =P
The sheer number of Retina-era MBPs is finally starting to drive the prices of 2010-2012 (the ones that can be upgraded to 16GB) into a useful price range.
Interesting... just how useful is it to have retina? My eyesight isn't fantastic, I can't see individual pixels from a normal seating distance. Is fidelity the only value the new screens have or am I missing something? Will retina apps look messed up on my computer?
My coworkers are all conservative, but sometimes they complain about something. "There ought to be a law..." and so I have to remind them that these pro-consumer ideas they come up with are too liberal for a conservative, right-minded government like ours.
Liberal policies appeal to the poor and downtrodden, a sector of the population that's only increasing in size and voting power. Therefore, your conservative policies are under continuous threat of being overtaken by "disruptive" progressivism.
This explains the gerrymandering to contain and control liberal, often metropolitan, areas of the US. If you could win by playing fair, you'd do it - but you can't, so you have to rely on a big punitive government to prevent the growth of a big egalitarian one.
The Mid 2012 MBP will accept 16 GB also. I bought one specifically to max it out and use for app development. All together I spent just shy of 550 bucks.
Good used Macs were never this cheap or this good relative to the new models. It really illustrates the slow pace of PC innovation by Apple and maybe the industry as a whole.
We're talking about Apple, not Microsoft.
At the CPU.
It's not a racial thing, it's a poverty thing
While that's a cute proposal (and I agree with it), it's not the prevailing narrative from the people talking about this.
The typical narrative here is that blacks are more violent because of their alleged low average IQs. We're told that as one reason why people should be okay with the idea of separating from one another based on race. If you believe it, you have an easy way to stay safe and to avoid the potential that your children may fall in love with one and produce inferior offspring.
Obviously, the only fix these people will accept is an official return to segregation, or at the very least, a cultural acceptance of our natural tendency to segregate.
As for the Neanderthals, since they're all dead, nobody knows how intelligent they were. We know how big their skull cavities are, but the size of their ancient bones does not clue us in to their intelligence. If it suggests anything for sure, it's that they were better adapted for survival in cold climates.
How do they get the licenses for such old software? Ebay? Or is it best not to ask such questions?
I still have the very first one. Still running great... though I might replace it with a proper laptop going forward. The form factor is fine. The OS is fine. But I find that I didn't really need Windows on a tablet. I needed Windows on a 15in+ laptop. Everyone is different, and I make great use of it, but for my use cases, a larger, more powerful laptop is preferable - while as far as tablets go for tablet purposes, any old thing with an updated browser and a native Netflix app will do.
Before Trump I'd have agreed with you, but now that they have something to rally around (or fear), I think the fragmentation of the Republican party has at least stopped if not reversed course. There's some outliers, but they don't matter anymore.
But if you want to get into specifics, my main gripe with him is that he promised free college and debt forgiveness, while completely ignoring how the political climate and the lobbying power of that industry would have made that an impossibility. He promised so much in general that the other Democrats were scrambling to counter him. The only one who wasn't doing that, Jim Web, left the race rather than take part in that sham.
Sigh. I'm still not convinced people like you are real, rather than just trolls. I have been coming across people like you more often though... just online thankfully.
I'd be pretty demoralized if I found out I was hired to make a place more diverse. I don't think l that was the case, but lately my place of work has been focusing a lot on diversity, and that makes nervous.
I never see that, but I have seen a guy get hired because he was someone's son. He then proceeded to steal company equipment to pay for a meth habit.
That doesn't make anything okay, I'm just saying it to point out that we don't really live in a meritocracy. At all levels, who you know is a factor that sometimes outranks what you know.
It's just the people who benefit from that are harder to spot.
2014? I don't know. It's kinda stupid.
That's what I didn't get about all the love for Bernie Sanders. The guy was like a candidate for student government promising extended recess and more pizza days. With the government what it is, and being a part of it, he must have pegged some of us for saps.
Coworkers I like become my friends after they leave, or after I leave the company. While I don't take it as far as the previous poster, I tend to agree that it's probably for the best not to confide your deepest vulnerabilities to people capable of using that against you later.
Exactly. It's as bad as it sounds, and also not as bad as it sounds. I don't think most of this is intentional. It's not Jim Crow. It's more a product of our deep seated feelings of one another. That we refuse to acknowledge those biases is a problem, but we've seen worse.
Is it objectively in inner-city blacks' "best interests" to keep voting Democrat and remain mired in poverty for generation after generation?
Do you really think ideology is the solution to everyone's problem? Do you believe your enemy's ideology is itself the cause of everyone's suffering?
While we're sitting here arguing about liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans are either ignoring us or outright raping us. They give us the minimum amount of attention, then they directly target us with punitive laws and regulations for their own personal enrichment.
Going more extreme, and demanding a unified front of all Republicans or all Democrats... will only get you more of the same. Black people voting solid Republican instead of solid Democrat won't help them, just like how a state voting Republican all the time hasn't helped them solve their own perpetual issues.
If everyone voted Republican (or Democrat) 100% of the time, we'd still be fucked. That's because we have fundamental cultural and political problems that prevent us from working with and responding productively to objective data. Everything is about appearances and personal gain. "How will this look if I do X". "How will this affect my reelection campaign?" "Will Evil Corp support me next time around if I do Y?" Next thing you know, you're an ineffectual politician good at only lining your own pockets and your people continue to suffer.
Yeah, you can't peacefully stop all thought even on a forbidden topic. Everyone taking part in it has to willingly agree to give it up. Assuming that's impossible - and it is impossible - even a peaceful method of erasing ideas from other peoples minds would be tyranny.
A trial by jury conviction is uncommon these days. Most of it is the result of a plea deal. When you're poor, and can't afford bail, and will lose your job if you're not there when scheduled, it can be a tempting option to take.
"Just say you did it. We know you did it. Make this easy for everyone. You'll be out of here as soon as you sign this statement. Say you did it. Just say it. Come on. Just say it."
Then you sign your admission, and if the crime is minor enough, they let you go with a fine or time served. You might be innocent, but for statistical purposes, you're part of the "problem".
It's probably worth the concern from the developers writing the code. A lazily written algorithm can serve as an excuse to never question how things are done, even if the injustice caused by it is visible to anyone willing to look.
You really don't need a computer to see this in action. In public schools for instance, a common algorithm used by administrators to avoid making nuanced decisions is Zero Tolerance. A set of simple if-then statements occur after an incident, consistently determining the fate of the student in question in a way that best avoids responsibility. No further questions are asked, no workplace experience is utilized, no risks are taken.
If the administrator's ever asked about the decision he made to expel the high-performing kid with the gun in his car, he can just point to the algorithm.