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Comment Re:Meh (Score 3) 261

And if nothing comes out? Willing to agree there's really nothing there?

I'm not a big partisan political fanatic, but it seems to me that the evidence that has already come to light, accompanied by the lies that have already been told, would be more than sufficient to send any Democrat to the gallows.

So I'd have to answer your question with "No." If Congress did their job, what's out there now would already be enough to impeach Trump and the horse he rode in on.

Comment Re:The RIGHT puts out more obvious lies. (Score 4, Interesting) 692

Yeah, I don't doubt that you could compile a huge list of lies for just about any politician, from Obama ("You can keep your doctor") all the way back to that time when George Washington promised his troops that there would be cake on the other side of the Delaware.

But the thing about Trump is, he lies by default. He lies reflexively. He lies about shit that doesn't matter. "Biggest inaugural crowd in history," that kind of thing. Trump would literally piss on your shoes and tell you it's raining.

That part is new and disturbing. It suggests that he's not only a typical lying politician, but some sort of psychopath.

Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 603

Why should I pay for a feature, if I don't need it

Because you won't know if you need it until much later, and it will be too late then.

Here static code analysis helps.

See above. In a language with a sane object model, inheritance (and reuse in general) doesn't require access to the source code.

Comment Re:As silly as it sounds this is a big deal (Score 4, Interesting) 490

4) Didn't hate them.

No, and in fact, he "loves" them ("I love the poorly-educated!") Just listen to that -- they even cheer when he mocks and insults them to their faces. How awesome is that?

5) When choosing sides, picked the American side.

That's just too hilarious to merit a response, given how much time he spent hanging around with Russians. Clue time: when choosing sides, Trump picks Trump's side. To the extent that benefits America (or Russia for that matter), it's purely by coincidence.

6) Didn't bend a knee to the press or the politically correct censors.

Whatever that means...

7) Wasn't trying to tell them there are 14 genders and only 12 of them get to decide how everyone must do everything.

Whatever that means...

8) Didn't tell them America was doomed to mediocrity and hopelessness.

Yeah, I know when I need to be rescued from mediocrity and hopelessness, I always look to the guy with his own reserved parking spot at bankruptcy court.

Comment Re:Goodbye Ford. (Score 2) 391

You're betting the company on SUVs, and in a few years when gas prices shoot up again, you're gonna lose the company

They will all be electrics or hybrids by then. The trucks they will sell in 5-10 years will get much better mileage than the cars they sell today.

Does anyone really believe gas prices can stay this low for forever?

Nope, and neither does Ford.

Ditching their traditional cars is a bold move, that's true enough. But I can't think of a single rational argument against it.

Comment Re:Whoa (Score 0) 513

It might turn out to be the final nail for apple as a computer manufacture.

And they're perfectly OK with that. For better or worse, Apple is an appliance company, not a computer company. It's as if no one noticed when Jobs renamed the company from "Apple Computer" to "Apple, Inc."

It seems obvious enough that the MacOS and iOS product lines will eventually converge. It's equally obvious that the Mac's DNA will take a lot of damage when that happens, if it survives at all.

Comment Re:I think you need to learn to read (Score 1) 559

And at the current rates they are losing money per Amazon delivery. Multiple sources have given actual numbers for this.

I'm missing the part where the "multiple sources" explain how this is Amazon's fault.

Is there perchance a source, or even multiple ones, for that?

Comment Re:So... (Score 1) 172

That was indeed a massive, massive problem with older versions of Outlook. But 2010 has been rock-solid for years, and has remained surprisingly fast as well.

Nevertheless, my .PST file is backed up on a journaling file system very frequently. If Outlook shits the bed at 50 gigabytes or whatever, I'll roll it back and split off an archive. No biggie.

Comment Re: So... (Score 1) 172

And yet, like I said, I'm the only one of my peers who ever seems to actually be able to retrieve stuff when it's needed. It's probably a good thing I don't work at the White House.

There always seems to be a reason why IMAP users can't put their hands on the message they're looking for. Usually it's somebody else's fault, which I guess is the whole idea.

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