The wildcards are the Jill Stein and McCarthy players. They have a string potential to strip away swing votes from both parties. The voters who have to hold their nose while voting for someone they dislike only slightly less than the other candidate. Look at 1992 with Ross Perot to see what an impact this would have. Clinton is scared, he helped get Perot started as a benefit to his bid. He knows it’s strategy. Thats ehy he personally flew out to stop Machin and his No Labels party. He told Machin if he ran, it would guarantee a Trump win. I wouldnt place percentages until the whole gameboard is filled in. We could find ourselves with last minute candidates even among the national committee parties.

I told my daughters friend she needs to look for an old 4cyl toyota corolla. She makes entry level wages and rent is crazy. So having c car like that wont break her bank on gas and repairs are significantly less costly than the 6cyl toyotas. Plus I would say over half the old beaters on the road are toyota/hondas so that should count for something for someone trying to make ends meet.

with all that french influence, how have they not already surrendered to Russia, just incase they invade.

So what that he encouraged or developed something, he is not the person who had actual access to this information, he never worked for any agency in USA where he would have to promise not to disclose information, to him (or anyone who doesn't work for such agencies) status of any 'secret' information is completely irrelevant, as it should be.

For example, if I egged on some general to disclose top secret information about some project and then he did disclose it, it would be on the general, not on me or anyone who encouraged him. HE IS THE ONE WHO PROMISED NOT TO DISCLOSE IT NO MATTER WHAT, not me, not anyone else.

I am not a 'right wing', I am not a 'left wing', I am a libertarian, anarcho capitalist, it puts me completely outside of what is considered to be normal politics in the USA by the way and I say that Assange has done nothing wrong at all and he is being terrorized because he embarrassed people who have power.

*this* is what "proves" it? Not the kidnappings, the torture, the murders? )

Yeah, you don't understand what will actually happen. What will actually happen is just more terrorism by the government that is already terrorist in nature. Kadyrov is a murderer, torturer, terrorist, his fame to claim was that he murdered his first russian at the age of 16. Today he routinely murders anyone who opposes his rule in any way, real or imaginary. His son kidnaps and beats a kid who posts something online that Kadyrov finds offensive. People routinely disappear, never to be seen again. People get tortured for anything that Kadyrov doesn't like.

At the same time Chechnia's economy only exists because putin provides Chechnia with billions of dollars every year from the russian budget.

You don't understand what is actually happening there. They don't care about law or whatever, if they hear something they don't like, you'll disappear and be raped and tortured and killed and that's about it. This entire thing about the music is really nothing at all, it just means that if someone *hears* music that is not Chechen they will report you and you will be gone.

this is no longer true now that there is so much proliferation of mobile phones. Only the ILEC was ever required to keep a powered landline for 911 calls and that got repealed a decade ago. CLEC and VoIP providers (which Cox counts as) are not required to provide free 911 services to non-paying customers. Any mobile phone that connects to a cell tower can make emergency calls even when it has no service plan. This in turn eliminated the ILEC requirement to maintain their aging and faultering copper POTS lines. This is why they are ripping out copper pairs everywhere.

its ridiculous from the onset. The auto makers are not required to make sure the buyers wont one day drive drunk, same for the gas stations or makers of the gas for the cars. Electric and Water companies are not held liable because someone turned their house into an illegal pot farm. Spoon manufacturers are not held liable because someone got fat using their utensils. This isnt 1999 anymore. Denying someone online access is borderline death sentence anymore. So many services have been pushed to online-only in the last several years. Two-Factor authentication has only increased this need. Until 1929 a first class letter was just $0.02. Over the last 40 years there has been a rapid pace of postage increasing while the quality and delivery times plummet. 3 years ago it took just 1 day for a letter mailed to an address within my city to arrive. Now postage is almost 20 cents more and it takes as much as 10 days to reach a house just 3 blocks away. I have literally had letters come back with yellow stickers saying undeliverable to an address in my neighborhood, that I have to turn around and place it in the goddamn mailbox myself. Totally unreliable. This in turn is driving the demand for online filings, online communication, online shopping, and online bill payments. There are some things you cant even buy in a big box store anymore. The only way to get it is by online shopping, usually on amazon. Like it or not, online access is no longer a luxury or entertainment, its damn near as big a requirement as access to water and shelter. With this rediculous logic the state and federal highway employees should all face criminal charges because the interstates are being used to transport heroin/fentanyl up from Mexico and down from Canada. Why arent they being sued?

It was overcast where I was, even though I was in the 95% band of totality. at 2pm EST the moon began crossing the sun's path. Up until 2:20 the sun was bright enough to pierce the clouds and use the solar glasses. By 2:20 the moon was covering more than half the sun which was enough light restriction you could only see it as it peeked between the clouds. Around 2:45 to 3pm, as it was at the peak, glasses were no longer required. You could not see through the clouds but occasionally enough cloud would part so that the layer of cloud above provided just enough filter to see the eclipse with a naked eye and it still be rather dim. Throughout the entire event I kept laughing inside at all the Rapture/Doomsday predictors. When my area saw the peak of the eclipse, it had already been occuring further west for the past hour. There were even fucking nutjobs on the internet claiming the day before feeling 'weird' and blaming an event that 1) happens every goddamn 7 years in your geographic location, more frequently all over the world and 2) wont happen for another day and its not like the sun and the moon are suddenly in different places in the solar system. I swear ever since social media evolved post 2010, everyone has gotten fucking stupid and cant seem to remember something that happened just 7 years ago. My local schools closed schools, not so they could see the eclipse. That would be a great reason. They did it for 'safety' reasons not wanting kids to go home from school in the 'dark'. FFS, its never been THAT dark, its as dark as early daybreak/twilight at best during an eclipse. Its been darker during a heavy storm. FFS its darker at 7am in JANUARY when you expect these kids to walk to school, its pitch black at 7am in january.

FDD were already phasing out in 1998. Two competing formats used the IDE interface: the ZIP drive and 3M’s LS120. The latter could read standard floppies and read them 1.5x faster, but the ZIP drive was more popular due to name confusion with pkzip shareware popular of the day. If it used FDD it might not have USB1.0 which was emerging at the time (Bill Gates famously demonstrated a BSoD bragging about USB hotswap ability in Windows98).

Be impressed that the entire OS still fits inside 1.5MB. Even the IDE interface would be a step up from the floppy interface port, but as you say, its hardware limited based on the equipment you need to keep running. I guess the real challenge is equipment pre-USB 1.0. A usb-floppy chipset has been around forever; making one to read a flash drive would be trivial. A flash drive to physical floppy interface port would be more unique. Power was provided externally to the FDD cable. Theyve had IDE to CompactFlash adapters forever, so I imagine a FDD to MicroSD would be a logical replacement to keep these systems operational. Even old school SD is faster than the FDD interface. Hell you might even rig a RaspberryPi with a special Hat to clone your floppies onto the MicroSD.

You are correct. What Canada needs is a 3d printed AI government, which would be a vast improvement over Trudeau.

One day I will no longer have to joke about the navy having issued me a second liver in my seabag. Now I can continue to pound shots like Myriam in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

1st of April was 2 days ago, was there an editing delay? In any case, there is only 1 Matrix movie, it was released in 1999 and I went to watch it in the theater 7 times. I have heard rumors about sequels but only that, they don't exist, whatever exists is not the Matrix, to make a movie like that one needs balls...

I wanted a weekend driver and got myself a 2014 Boxster, no way in hell that would have been an automatic, that car is for fun and has nothing to do with any 'retro' crap. I wouldn't be caught dead driving an EV though.