And then there is Trudeau... pure charisma, arrogantly certain of his establishment group-think and almost entirely incompetent.
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I'll believe it when it shows up in voting behavior. Nothing is going to improve until you change who you elect. Nothing at all.
FYI; someone camps out on my doorstep they're gone with one call; no debate. Your "homeless" problem is not a nation wide phenomena. This is you; the government you chose, the policies you voted for. No one else is at fault for this. It's you. Look around at what you made.
Automated systems are held to a higher standard. Telsa's Autopilot apparently has trouble spotting trailers and decapitates the occupants. Cite all the accident figures you want; it won't stop the reporting about Autopilot wrecks.
A little, yes.
Detecting 'too good to be true' is an important aspect of judgement. Blithely inculcating every claim when it aligns with self interest is at the root of many evils.
You can see it in the post; the test drive sold it. This isn't an anomaly. VW buyers cite that same observation over and over. They liked the performance; they were buying performance.
When some yob brings a gas powered V8 pony car home from the dealer we're all granted permission to sneer at the selfish fool. Yet somehow the millions of VW buyers that learned about the kick in the pants product with the respectable badge are all mysteriously exempt and entitled to absolution.
Not from me.
Sounds like you enjoyed your diesel hot rods for a good long while. You really should consider foregoing your martyrdom at some point; the well of sympathy for you isn't bottomless. Some of us can recall the years of self righteous VW owners lecturing the world about their little miracle cars.
You bought into a fraud. An honorable person finds a little shame in that, even when they can claim innocence.
If you read this wall of text and then spent a good chunk of Friday writing one or more lengthy comments about it you should know something; you're living in paradise. Actual paradise. You have nothing to complain about because you've been entirely liberated from any significant burdens or risks. You've won.
Congratulations.
It's going to be a lot less appealing for high income people to pile into a few coastal areas when they can no longer deduct away most of their Federal tax liabilities by borrowing a $700K house.
Except they can't. The outrage brigades come after the registrars and the hosting services and the payment processors and anyone else they can coerce into compliance. A few platforms have survived this process (...so far...) and are thriving, but joe schmoe will get disappeared in no time at all.
And when those theories are discussed by serious minded people they are frequently forced to qualify the discussion with "except for those left behind," mostly because of the unavoidably obvious destruction all around them.
"Those left behind" being a euphemism for the working class of otherwise extremely wealthy countries.
When you've heard enough of this for enough decades it eventually dawns on you that it's just about cheap, exploitable labor. The rest is the professional class b.s. spin used to rationalize it.
I don't think we've actually run out that string however; you have to go a long, long way before academe recognizes the futility of throwing more 'guidance' at the problem.
No thought given to the fact that a large fraction of people aren't really capable of intellectually challenging tasks and professional class behavior, and I mean from the womb.
Just 'Education! Education!'
Apparently criticizing poor decision making is a bad thing and so here we're provided a convenient pejorative with which to dismiss it.
Recently we've seen many notables dismiss uneducated white Trump supporters as poor decision makers; their outcomes being entirely their own fault and so we need consider their views no further. I wonder if they'll be permitted to demean such behavior as “retributive.”
I don't actually wonder that. The answer is as certain as a physical law.
These kids were sold a bill of goods. One might hope they've learned that good paying jobs will not magically appear simply by chanting 'Education!' We can't actually evacuate most of our industrial base to Asia and force the remaining employers into ever greater oligopolies through regulatory pressure and still have a middle class.
But I think that's a false hope. Instead they'll do precisely as they've been trained and vote for the promises of the political class; the very people that taught them to mindlessly chant 'Education!' in the first place.
That's not how well run projects function.
Whoa! You made huge leap there. At what point was it suggested that patches be recklessly applied?
That didn't happen. Your quote actually suggests a reasonable progression and at no point is there any suggestion, implied or otherwise, that changes be integrated without due consideration.
Not irrationally dismissing criticism != abandoning sound design and development.
There is literally an App[1] to track the progress of the hundreds of FOIA lawsuits outstanding at any given moment. The federal Government routinely denies FOIA requests and forces applicants to pursue them in court. If attributing this to Trump would help you inculcate this reality then have a look at this[2]. Agencies are deliberately not investing in IT systems that would serve to facilitate FOIA, according to MIT[3].
1. http://foiaproject.org/lawsuit/ 2. http://foiaproject.org/2018/01/16/lawsuits-trump-first-year/ 3. https://www.pcworld.com/article/3097047/software/the-fbi-is-...
Now that your objection to a key premise of this story has been comprehensively discredited, perhaps you might make the necessary world view adjustment and reconsider your conclusion.
BTW, the foiaproject links above are concerned only with Federal FOIA; similar state laws exist and the number of FOIA lawsuits at the state level are legion. Your governments are actively thwarting FOIA at every level.
So goes the conventional group think. Thing is Mexico isn't the only nation that shares a long border with the US. Yet somehow Canada isn't yet another murder capital of the world, busily feeding the relentless US appetite for drugs.
But analyzing the difference between Mexico and Canada isn't something you're allow to do; it rapidly produces extremely uncomfortable results that contemporary good-thinkers don't ever dare entertain.
I know it's the fashion to Blame America First in all things, but Mexico has enormous problems well beyond its border with the US.