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  1. This is probably the worst reason I have ever read not to use Open/Libre Office.

    "It crashed unknown years ago when I first installed it. I got laughed at so never tried again."

    Outlook crashes on me (or hard freezes) almost once a day at work.

  2. Re:Holding a phone before buying it on Android Q Will Include More Ways For Carriers To SIM Lock Your Phone (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    Go to a brick and motor store first

  3. Re:Not going to happen on Android Q Will Include More Ways For Carriers To SIM Lock Your Phone (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    The law was too broad - if you understood anything about the case, you'd know that.

    "In the case, the conservative non-profit organization Citizens United sought to air a film critical of Hillary Clinton and to advertise the film during television broadcasts shortly before the 2008 Democratic primary election in which Clinton was running for U.S. President."

    It was also applied unevenly. Fahrenheit 9/11 was released during the Bush election season.

  4. Re: Property is dead on Android Q Will Include More Ways For Carriers To SIM Lock Your Phone (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    Until you finish paying it off, you don't completely own it

  5. Re:Property is dead on Android Q Will Include More Ways For Carriers To SIM Lock Your Phone (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    They can't. He was posting a hypothetical while wearing a tin foil hat

  6. Re:Holding a phone before buying it on Android Q Will Include More Ways For Carriers To SIM Lock Your Phone (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    How can someone looking to buy a phone from an online merchant get a feel for how the phone will feel in his or her hand?

    The same way you do it for almost anything you buy online..

  7. Re:Property is dead on Android Q Will Include More Ways For Carriers To SIM Lock Your Phone (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    Which flagship phone? Samsung, Moto, LG all sell unlocked versions on their phones on Amazon.

  8. Re: California is too expensive for a billionaire on SpaceX To Shift Starship Work From California To Texas · · Score: 2

    I think what the above poster was worried about was californians coming here, driving up housing prices, and making the area unaffordable to locals.

    I may already own my house, but a raise in property rates affects taxes which can knock me out of my house

  9. Re:Summary? on Court Rejects FCC Request To Delay Net Neutrality Case (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Live in the past pal

  10. Re:Summary? on Court Rejects FCC Request To Delay Net Neutrality Case (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Makes you wish there wasn't an agency that could just override states wishes, right?

  11. Re:And 110% of the choice on Netflix Says It Has 10 Percent of All TV Time In the US (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course the post is about the US. The article is about usage in the US

  12. Re:Summary? on Court Rejects FCC Request To Delay Net Neutrality Case (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Reality disagrees with you. Congress has, through laws legitimately passed by Congress, delegated the authority to make certain rules to executive agencies. You can go ahead and file lawsuits to get courts to agree to dissolve every executive agency, but I wouldn't bet any money on your success.

    But you can't have it both ways. Now Trump is able to use that same power to get rid of everything put into place without an actual law.
    That's a good reason why we shouldn't have given so much power to the agencies.

  13. Re: TRUMP Destroys Culture and Wildlife. on Google Maps Deterring Outback Tourists, Say Small Firms (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They could but why would they? Toddler has no leverage

    Exactly why he knows the democrats are full of shit when they say they will seriously consider it after he passes their budget. As you said, the democrats only cross the aisle if there is leverage forcing them too

    Also, if all this border money was so inpirtamt why didn't he demand the GOP give it to him in either the 2017 or 2018 budgets?

    Because he was dumb enough to believe twice that the discussions would happen as promised after we got through the impending shutdown warning. He isn't dumb enough to fall for it a third time with the democrats in power.

  14. Re: TRUMP Destroys Culture and Wildlife. on Google Maps Deterring Outback Tourists, Say Small Firms (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't forgotten. He was saying he would take the hit but that doesn't mean that he wouldn't swing back.

    And there was context to that line, in any case. Te democrats where telling him that he had to do whatever they said because he would be blamed for the shutdown. The fact that they are that flamboyant to the point of bragging that they control the media narrative should be enough to give you some concern (it won't though).

  15. Re: TRUMP Destroys Culture and Wildlife. on Google Maps Deterring Outback Tourists, Say Small Firms (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The republicans tried that when Obama was in office. He rightly said no because then he would lose leverage.

    Same here.

    The majority of Americans don't know about the government shutdown. And most people that know about the shutdown here it framed by the media or late night comedians as Trumps fault. The fact that only half blame him is remarkable progress (compared to the percentage that blamed Republicans for past shutdowns). Looks like his tweeting does make a difference.

    At the end of the day, the democrats can end this by agreeing to 1/4 of the money they had agreed to spend last year. They aren't because they want to look big and are use to controlling the narrative.

  16. Re: TRUMP Destroys Culture and Wildlife. on Google Maps Deterring Outback Tourists, Say Small Firms (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    It's clear the democrats would rather keep the government shut down over 5 billion dollars.

    I can understand why when they have people like you blindly supporting them.

    I remember several almost government shutdowns where Obama wouldn't sign a budget if something was left out of it. Trump is doing the same thing here, just the republican congress was quicker to fold. (Granted that is easier to stand strong when - regardless of who is in power - the media and people like you will always blame the republicans.)

  17. Re: TRUMP Destroys Culture and Wildlife. on Google Maps Deterring Outback Tourists, Say Small Firms (bbc.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Which is why he reduced the amount requested to 5 billion.

    It's horrible that they will leave the government shut down just to show they are now in power.

  18. Re: TRUMP Destroys Culture and Wildlife. on Google Maps Deterring Outback Tourists, Say Small Firms (bbc.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So why are they holding out for 5 billion? Why do they think this is worth shutting the government down when they were ok with a much larger sum last year?

  19. All communication with students has to be archived as it should be accessible to parents via the Freedom of Information App. It also protects teachers from unfounded accusations by students.

    I would think this would make texting less attractive.

    My kid's school uses ClassDojo.

  20. Re:The What Now? on Don't Expect A New Nvidia Shield Tablet Anytime Soon · · Score: 1

    I've had the shield TV for about a month. The only time I have rebooted was to install a new update. I looked on the xda forums and didn't see many issues. Sorry the experience for you wasn't great. But honestly - try one of the android tv boxes on amazon. You will have a newfound respect for the shield.

  21. Re:The What Now? on Don't Expect A New Nvidia Shield Tablet Anytime Soon · · Score: 1

    They make the best android TV on the market. After 3 years of buying android tv boxes that actually ran the tablet version of android (which made using a remote difficult) I finally bit the bullet and bought the shield. It's old and still getting updates, run smooth, and plays everything I throw at it.

    I wish I had started with the nvidia shield (TV not tablet). It would have been actually cheaper than all the android boxes I bought before that never updated.

  22. Re: Don't sugarcoat the turd on Samsung Phone Users Perturbed To Find They Can't Delete Facebook (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The post was that the deleting or disabling the app made no difference. The app was the entire point of the article.

    The person you accused of being a shill was not stating that Facebook doesn't track you through other means.

  23. Re: Don't sugarcoat the turd on Samsung Phone Users Perturbed To Find They Can't Delete Facebook (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes - because anyone that has a different viewpoint must be a paid shill.

    And the topic was about the Facebook app. Not sure how your script blocker and going to the web app has anything to do with the discussion.

  24. Well based on the article that you hopefully read, that makes sense, right?

    The thing is, you assume that Texas is anti clean energy and a backwards state on almost all social issues and your wrong. But nothing will ever convince you of that.

  25. Re:Nicole Foss on renewables on Texas Has Enough Sun and Wind To Quit Coal, Rice Researchers Say (houstonchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    The thing is, Texas just does these things with no fanfare. We should be more like California and hold loud press conferences of plans to switch to newables (in 10 to 20 years.)