The issue is that the methodology for the ranking is questionable, and the methodology changes from year to year. The exact same drop occurred in 2005, 2011, 2014. The issue about press freedom not being perfect still exists, but the story that things have changed is a false narrative.
Could be false narrative. Could be accurate. Nevertheless the ranking (or rather the significance) is worth thinking about.
It's worse than that. When you vote for a third party, one of the two parties still wins, and very likely it's the one from the party that is least aligned with your principles.
In other words, the lesson you're teaching the two parties is that they should encourage a third party to emerge that aligns somewhat with their opponent's typical voters....
So the party that lost votes does not want them back, but instead will encourage a third party to emerge on opponent's side? Are you sure that they will do this, and neither of the parties would be interested in gobbling up those votes, especially if that piece of pie would keep increasing. Considering the system, I think that a vote to the third party would be the loudest way to be heard. Even if you subscribe to the theory that only one of the parties has members willing to vote for a third party (as advocated in the quotation, doesn't make sense otherwise).
Well, if you've already decided that you're an "average voter," then there's not much hope for you.
Most people are average voters... So are you advocating that all is lost?
Of course ones you start gaming and the fan on the video card kicks in the whole thing turns into a vacuum cleaner.
Manually (as setting the speed/temperature curve yourself) adjusting the speed of the fans helps (or may help). I have Windforce 3x in current card and I am quite happy with it after tweaking the settings a bit. The Asus DirectCU was also nice.
None of them are useful or worth while and there are always better 'real' applications.
Netflix. The only app I use. Then again the 'real' application is a webpage, so the competition is not that great. (Actually, once in a while also OneNote, but since I don't have the newest version of Office installed I don't know if the desktop application is better. The app is better than OneNote 2010.)
If you set it up to use the same background as on the desktop the transition is less disturbing. After tweaking the location of the little squares I find it usable, although not an improvement. I set a few updating columns to left, then a couple of columns of static icons related to different tasks and now along with the win+q (which doesn't open the whole modern UI anymore) can find/open stuff pretty quickly.
I still dislike the way right button is handled in the modern UI. Give me my context menus back. Unnecessary useless movements are unnecessary.
The graphics are incredibly realistic, but the gameplay is frustrating and the plot just sucks.
The starting areas are not well balanced either. And there are too many pay to win elements.
Alright, point taken. However you were misattributing the joke. When stating that "The BBC is reporting[...]" it would be nice for the sentence to describe things that the BBC is reporting. Consider the beginning of the comment I was replying to: "It's ironic that the story would say[...]"
It's ironic that the story would say you won't find this issue with a Mac Book air.
Not really, that seems to be a non-article related Macbook Air promotion. "The BBC is reporting that Dell's Latitude 6430u Ultrabooks have an interesting characteristic you won't find in any Macbook Air". Surprisingly the words Macbook and Apple seem to be missing from the article.
Hold on, she was the victim here. SHe doesn't need to do encryption because at one point thre was this thing called the constitution.
Yes, she was the victim. However, there are ways of making yourself less likely to become a victim. This is what we are talking about.
So are you saying that if the files had been encrypted, they wouldn't have been confiscated, all of this would not have happened?
What else precautions one should make not to become the victim of one's own government? Is leaving home allowed? Is there a list of approved websites to visit?
You are making the case that the government is a bullying criminal. And while you can and perhaps should avoid getting the attention of a hooligan/bully/criminal, the government is at least in principle there for you. And in my mind this makes the situation completely different. One shouldn't bow to bullies, but having a bullying government is worse.
And yes, of course the files should have been encrypted. I wonder if they would have detained her in that case.
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion
