mctoasterson

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[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 13 points 2 days ago

Good thing they bundled home and auto insurance

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 11 points 4 days ago

People don't always budget for this stuff and fail to factor in that in some areas your property taxes and insurance can creep up and pretty soon your manageable mortgage payment becomes less manageable.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I get sick of relitigating the this argument, but there is a lot of flowery and outdated language in the founding documents, and in the context it is used there "well regulated" means "in good functioning order" or "of uniform quality". It has nothing to do with government regulation as we might understand it today. Moreover if you read the Federalist Papers and other supporting documents it is clear that a government-regulated militia would be entirely contrary to the stated purpose, and makes no logical sense.

The framers wanted dispersed concentrations of local armed groups, with near force parity with any federal infantry or potential foreign adversary. They were extremely suspicious of standing armies.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 67 points 6 days ago (12 children)

Well the good news for progressives is you'll likely see Thomas and maybe Alito retire during Trump's next term. The bad news is they'll be replaced by 35-year-old strict-constructionist Constitutional conservatives.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The House isn't stuck with that though. They can amend the rules for the next session, and I'd imagine any speaker worth his salt would demand that rule be stricken because it is unworkable.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I saw this as a kid and completely forgot it had both Tim Curry and Laura Linney in it.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago

He's Teflon Don. He will literally never do a day of jailtime.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 41 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Eventually people come to the surprising realization that their best product was actually the Zune.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is how all military branches have always pressured Congress for more budget. They give a public disquisition with doomsday scenarios about our rivals/adversaries so the public will see the press coverage and call their Congressional reps to demand the military gets built up.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago

I think this game had the misfortune of launching right before OoT. It became a footnote after that because anyone with an N64 was understandably distracted by Zelda.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

This could be a blessing in disguise... My main purpose would be to avoid Apple-style "client side scanning" which, in the hands of vertically-integrated Google hardware and software, amounts to exposing yourself to constant and on-demand warrantless searches.

Since there is no transparency into the hardware backdoors, the internal workings of the close sourced Google ROM, or the business agreement to cooperate with LE / intelligence agencies, bare minimum is to run an alternative OS that complicates their efforts to undermine user privacy. Hobbled AI features on the chip itself might actually be another safeguard, depending on how it is implemented.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You're implying that one candidate has a super secret big lead not reflected in polling.

Who? And why do you think that?

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