I'm likely not that much younger than you are. We're both six digit UIDs. And you're term limit yabber has been around just as long and is just as hopeless as campaign finance reform. Ultimately we're all screwed either way, but your proposal to fix things would make stuff worse; I note that you have no actual rebuttal to the quality of my position, just that it's unlikely to happen.
...and I didn't miss CNN at all. At work they moved the cafeteria TVs to CNBC. At home if I watched the news at all I switched to Al Jazeera America to check them out. When CNN came back work switched em back.
All of these news channels are replaceable. If Dishes loses they'll pass the rate increase on to me, and I'd rather lose one or two of them. Losing Fox is just a bonus.
Because you never tried to gift it?
If I want to convert my dollars to rubels and take a chance on how volatile the currency is, why can't I?
You can. Money markets are available for you to invest in.
What's fair about letting which side of an imaginary line you live on dictate the price?
Maybe the law in Russia that says you can't sell things in US Dollars? Otherwise Steam could just set a US Dollar price and let the exchanges sort it out.
The laws in question here were passed decades ago, probably before you even know what a car was.
... for completely different reasons, which are now irrelevant. And today's government could recognize that these laws are outdated and irrelevant, and eliminate them. The fact that they aren't is the problem right now, not the history of when things happened before.
Career politicians are largely to blame as they will vote which ever way they think will keep them in office. Since campaigning is expensive, the deep pockets essentially run the nation.
As opposed to end-of-term term-limited politicians who will vote which ever way will get them a good job once they leave office? Or as opposed to new term-limited politicians who won't know what the hell they're doing and will vote however their career staff and lobbyists tell them to?
I respect a politician more who wants to die in office, because that means he's never looking for another job. He is having to run for office, and yes, campaigning is expensive and corrupt. Let's fix that instead of ruining the system with term limits.
You can just look at the garbage that is the Affordable Care Act to see that negotiation and compromise is alive and well - all within the Democratic party. If they were united as a block (as Republicans were in 2000-2006 or so), we would have gotten a much better single-payer system out of the law. If Republicans were to just disappear, the various groups that make up the Democrats would likely fracture into a few parties - all admittedly to the center and left of today's America - and start to negotiate more on those differences.
That same degree that says you were willing to sit through tech classes with idiots will also show your future employers that you are willing to sit through meetings with managers.
If nothing else, a degree shows you are capable of tolerating a certain level of bullshit in exchange for an otherwise meaningful career. Those incapable of tolerating that bullshit don't belong in corporate jobs, unless it's a corporation they helped found.
of course, since when has the news companies ever performed responsibly and morally when left to their own devices?
Obviously it depends on the news organization, but I haven't seen any major news site reporting on the actual salaries of various employees, or on the medical reasons claimed for leaves of absence. That data exists and I wouldn't be surprised if some "news" site (be it X Report, Wikileaks, or a Slashdot comment somewhere) contains that data, but it's not being blatantly reprinted by the New York Times for example just for gossip.
On the other other hand, I do bet that there's a reporter somewhere poring through that data, looking for signs of systematic discrimination against (insert minority group) and emails from (asshole executive) that imply intent to discriminate. Were they to find that material, the public interest is served to publish it, even if the source documents aren't included.
By leaving, they are happily giving up their position as leading Spanish news aggregator. That seems to avoid the monopoly issue entirely, as now there's space for other competitors to grow.
I think calling something "Malware" implies malice, something that's not indicated here as I see it. This is probably a case of incompetence, releasing poorly thought out, poorly written, and/or poorly tested code. Maybe we need a term for that - "bugware". (Or, for the cynics in the audience, we already have a term - "software".)
"quality" is subjective. If the goal of the audience is to experience the higher noise and lower dynamic range of vinyl, then vinyl is of higher quality to them.
You can't look at this as just a technical discussion and evaluate the options on their data sheet metrics. This is a sociology discussion and you have to at least partially empathize with the consumers.
(Yes, "SNR" and "dynamic range" are objective measures, but when you start using the term "quality" that has a lay meaning things start to get fuzzier.)
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
