"The World" == "New York" || "Los Angeles"

I mean we're making strides, I can get Shipt delivered groceries here in Alabama, but it's very dismissive to just assume that everyone a.) has internet access, and b.) can just "order food for instant delivery".

Yeah that's what I'm worried about. I have a couple of LG devices (a V10 and an X-Pad) and it took them forever to get Android 7. I have yet to see any kind of security update for them, including the year leading up to the Android N upgrade.

Although the BlueBorne checker that I downloaded seems to indicate that if your device isn't discoverable, that it can't be infected. I'm probably wrong on that, however.

Either that, or many people own multiple. There are four sitting on my desk here at work (although two belong to my employer).

I can second this. I took the family on an RV trip and when we were winding around the back roads in south Alabama, my Verizon phone always had voice and data (at least 3G, if not LTE). My T-Mo devices were useless for a good chunk of the travel time.

Operation Choke Point

To quote Wikipedia:

"Operation Choke Point is an initiative of the United States Department of Justice that was announced in 2013, which is investigating banks in the United States and the business they do with payment processors, payday lenders, and other companies believed to be at higher risk for fraud and money laundering.

This operation, disclosed in an August 2013 Wall Street Journal story, has been accused of bypassing due process; the government is pressuring the financial industry to cut off the companies' access to banking services including access to capital(loans), without first having shown that the targeted companies are violating the law. As reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, critics say, "it's a thinly veiled ideological attack on industries the Obama administration doesn't like, such as gun sellers and coal producers."

Didn't the DNC have a pretty robust data mining operation for the 2008 and 2012 elections? What happened since then?

I think it's a stretch to say that every user of Linux is reviewing the kernel source. I know that I use it regularly and I'm not a coder, just a networking geek. I *have* the source, but other than a very high-level understanding of what it purports to do, I really have no idea what the code actually does.

But you don't want to drink it. Don't you people watch Doctor Who?

Isn't that exactly what "family sharing" does?

FTA: "See a family member's installed game that you want to play? Send them a request to authorize the computer. Once authorized, the lender's library of Steam games become available for others on the machine to access, download and play. "

But is there a database that ties that serial number back to an individual voter?

I consider myself "decently employed", and I would not be willing to drop a car payment every month on my internet connection.

Or, it could be that since the problem arose because her pen ran out of ink, it might be nice to give her a writing device that gives some sort of tactile feedback that it is not capable of writing.

But no, it's much more fun and insightful to bash Americans.

Finally, some sanity. You have to consciously seek out any "intimate relationship" with the other characters, whether homo- or hetero-sexual in nature. In fact I think it's even possible to go through the first two games without *any* type of sexual relationship (haven't played ME3 yet, but I would assume the same is true there as well).

This article refers to things that NBC decided, did, or said regarding their outrageous editing of George Zimmerman's 911 call.

But NBC exists only in a legal sense. It has no brain. It makes no decisions. And it's really incapable of giving a rat's ass about criticisms it might receive from the right of the political spectrum.

The things that NBC "says" or "does" are really said or done by the people who work, mostly anonymously, inside the protective bubble we refer to as NBC.

We're not permitted to know which of those people made the "error" in question. But we know who is the one ultimately responsible for it.

That would be Steve Capus, the president of NBC news. As the top guy, he is ultimately responsible for everything NBC "says" or "does".

And now, Steve Capus is responsible for the whitewashing of this "error."

Steve Capus must be held accountable for this travesty that happened on his watch. Steve Capus must step down as the president of NBC News.

Every post about this issue should frame it as what it really is: Malicious malpractice, committed and covered up by Steve Capus.

I would posit that most states pay less federal tax that they take in federal funds... otherwise we would not have a budget deficit.