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  1. Rhonda the Sly

    I hate to break it to you, but the endgame is here...

    My understanding of Federal Election law is shaky at best but, from what I understand, campaigns can coordinate with all types of groups but not PACs. Democracy Partners are not a PAC so much as a consulting firm. Am I right or am I crazy?
  2. Rhonda the Sly

    What should Donald do when the election results are in?

    Assuming he loses, as that's the only interesting scenario, I doubt he goes quietly. He hasn't sued any of the people he said he would just yet but there's no reason to believe he wouldn't, at least, call for recounts. He tends to make a lot of noise, even if it doesn't amount to much. His...
  3. Rhonda the Sly

    Oh Come on Russia its getting too obvious

    Putin and his allies are coming on way stronger and more obviously than they would need to (or want to) if they wanted to actually influence the election, which leads me to wonder if this is all a mix of coincidence and opportunistic head games. That is to say that it's a coincidence that Paul...
  4. Rhonda the Sly

    Scientists just got closer to understanding the link between genetics and crime.

    It's MAOA, the "Warrior Gene," all over again. On an unrelated note, I think I'm about to hit capacity on acronyms. Edit: I'm realizing I don't know what MAOA stands for so I may already be at capacity!
  5. Rhonda the Sly

    Hillary faints @ ground zero?

    :eek::eek::eek:
  6. Rhonda the Sly

    Hillary faints @ ground zero?

    So the latest bite of news is that she has pheumonia.
  7. Rhonda the Sly

    NPR joins other news orgs banning comments from its stories

    If every comment section is going to devolve into a "my team is better than your team" discussion, and one that won't be relevant to the article it is attached to, why should NPR pay for it? While there's usually a comment, maybe two, that are worthwhile contributions to many articles, most all...
  8. Rhonda the Sly

    NPR joins other news orgs banning comments from its stories

    Exactly. To be honest, I don't know why there are as many sites with comment sections as we have now. You'd think they would offload that to facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. Via NPR.
  9. Rhonda the Sly

    Extreme, extreme, really extreme vetting

    That seems pretty "extreme." But what does the extreme vetting mean paired with the immigration ban on terrorist hotspots? Is the extreme vetting for France and the ban for Syria? Still need more details. I guess I have to watch this crap at 2x speed. Full speech here: I'm using the...
  10. Rhonda the Sly

    Man 'on neighborhood watch' kills 20-year-old outside home

    It's our collective duty (and destiny!) to do this and I won't be seen as one condoning of us shirking our responsibilities. Backstory appears to be this, if you don't want to read the articles: There's a party somewhere in Raleigh, N.C., a certain Kouren-Rodney Bernard Thomas was in...
  11. Rhonda the Sly

    How do i make the W10 startmenu wider ?

    Not OP. "Enhanced Mitigation Exerien..." doesn't gain or lose additional letters going from 1366x768 to 800x600 on my laptop, revealing that All Apps is fixed width.
  12. Rhonda the Sly

    Baltimore PD, no racial bias.... Not really

    I don't know, man. It looks pretty bad. If you recall, this practice was mirrored in the Ferguson PD - they called it a "ped check." Then you have to consider how useful and appropriate the stops are: Unfortunately, the bias displayed was also present in Ferguson. Edit:
  13. Rhonda the Sly

    Trump Responds To Slain Soldier's Father, Who Appeals To GOP Leaders

    0/06699949400440440444447444444444/0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000009000490.) "" =0"') 11,,* I'm using the Internet! Yeah!
  14. Rhonda the Sly

    Trump Responds To Slain Soldier's Father, Who Appeals To GOP Leaders

    Here's my beef on Khan v Trump: The Khans are, as has been well noted, the parents of a fallen soldier and that, in our society, affords him some amount if respect. Why did Trump have to go after Khzir's wife, floating the thought she had nothing to say? Why did he go after their religion...
  15. Rhonda the Sly

    Michael Jordan speaks on shootings of Black Americans and the targeting of police

    It looks like he didn't decided to say much but he's splitting the difference here. Supporting BLM, the police and attempting to fund improving relations between the two is probably about the right thing for a person of his standing. Not much to say about it since not much was said. Could have...
  16. Rhonda the Sly

    Ex-KKK leader David Duke announces Senate run for LA. seat

    While I'm feeling like the Trump has a suspicious relationship with racism and racists I feel that those tweets are entirely benign. I don't know how these events typically go but I imagine they're only screening for content as it's unreasonable to expect them to dig up everything on an account...
  17. Rhonda the Sly

    Miami police shoot unarmed man

    Charging the person that called 911 because they were mistaken and the Police ended up shooting someone? Seems a bit unfair. Also you'll notice the victim didn't die. Look at that, comply with the orders of police and you don't get killed!
  18. Rhonda the Sly

    Ex-KKK leader David Duke announces Senate run for LA. seat

    Okay. Out of simple curiosity I do wonder what exactly his policies are. His statements on Twitter seem to give the impression that he thinks that he can run as a fear-pushing racist and claim to respect everyone all at once. I wonder if and how he'll even address non-whites. Should...
  19. Rhonda the Sly

    ***OFFICIAL*** Republican National Convention thread ***CONFIRMED***

    I was about to start chiding people because I thought this was a silly thing to get hung up on but... What the heck, Donald?! Edit: Also the way she pulls back. "Please don't embarrass me in national TV, dad..." I'm using the Internet! Yeah!
  20. Rhonda the Sly

    ***OFFICIAL*** Republican National Convention thread ***CONFIRMED***

    Trump announced his campaign with a comment about Mexicans that many people considered racist and doubled down with his proposal for a compete ban on Muslim immigration not too long thereafter. As far as past history, there's always Trump Management lawsuit from sometime in the 70's. Or the...
  21. Rhonda the Sly

    Big truck does BIG damage to Bastille Day celebrators

    You may be, off color to me would be a title like "Nice Truck Does Mean Things." I feel, and I may be out of the norm, the title is just inarticulately trying to give scale or emphasis to the act. I don't find it insensitive at all. Sent from my LGMS631 using Tapatalk
  22. Rhonda the Sly

    ***OFFICIAL*** Republican National Convention thread ***CONFIRMED***

    I feel like the song choice was just Trump's way of bragging and he doesn't care that the surviving members of Queen don't care for him. Sent from my LGMS631 using Tapatalk
  23. Rhonda the Sly

    Police Will Abide by Ohio's Open Carry Gun Laws at Convention

    So far we have the NBPP planning to protest while armed, claiming to only need the arms to defend themselves, and Bikers for Trump will be riding around the convention trying to deter any assaults on police by protesters. A total shit-show that may end up in violence but I've yet to hear anyone...
  24. Rhonda the Sly

    Breaking News - Mass Murder of Cops in Lousiana

    There are very few calling openly for revenge killings and those that do have no real power or following.
  25. Rhonda the Sly

    poll Speaker Paul Ryan or challenger Paul Nehlen

    It appears that two distinct groups were doing the begging and the rewarding.
  26. Rhonda the Sly

    Breaking News - Mass Murder of Cops in Lousiana

    Initially, "Nice truck attack" elicited a bit of a giggle from me as I had misunderstood the "Nice" to be some happy-go-lucky Truck and not Nice, France. Language, especially across languages (re: Nice), itself can be a funny thing. Mind you, I'm aware I could have showed some sobriety...
  27. Rhonda the Sly

    Big truck does BIG damage to Bastille Day celebrators

    Yeah, creativity of using non-weapons makes attacks like these harder to predict and harder to prevent, unfortunately. I'm glad I'm not French or in France. They do seem to be getting a lot of unwanted attention lately.
  28. Rhonda the Sly

    Big truck does BIG damage to Bastille Day celebrators

    Every once in a while it gets to feel like every thread is the same thread in ATPN.
  29. Rhonda the Sly

    Windows 10 account issue/question

    The second step when signing into the Store asks to either associate the whole account or simply sign into the app itself.
  30. Rhonda the Sly

    Donald Trump Questions Whether Hillary Clinton And Obama Are Actually Christians

    The best I can tell from the circumstances of his birth, analyzing his recent actions and performing a thorough examination of his speech patterns: 57% Muslim 21% Buddhist 13% Christian 08% Pastafarian 01% Atheist
  31. Rhonda the Sly

    Trump will tear Hillary apart in a debate

    Does anybody remember Trump's performance during the Republican primary debates? He didn't know the details, didn't do the broad ideas and largely stuck to his jabs or being off-topic. He's a candidate with huge flaws. If Clinton can just meet the low bar of at least appearing to talk...
  32. Rhonda the Sly

    Halo 5: Guardians PC version is dead.

    Yeah, we've heard this already from them but I think the real question is what they have planned for Halo 6. It may not be worthwhile to go over all of Halo 5 again to make sure is runs flawlessly and smoothly on PCs but new projects are something else entirely.
  33. Rhonda the Sly

    Yikes, how is this windows 10 ssd bug still around?

    Starting from Windows 8 things like the disk defragment utility and superfetch got a bit smarter about handling SSDs. Edit: Smarter about how it handles enabling services, of course. Obviously, bugs or bad drivers may come into existance.
  34. Rhonda the Sly

    25% CPU usage, Windows 10 update?

    Do we even know what's using so much of this person's CPU?
  35. Rhonda the Sly

    McDonald's ex-CEO just revealed a terrifying reality for fast-food workers

    A related Ars Technica piece has this bit: Doesn't seem like anyone disagrees in the long term that low end labor will be much less desirable.
  36. Rhonda the Sly

    MS Delivers Windows 7 "Convenience Rollup" to soften update woes.

    I looked up one of telemetry updates and it was listed as Recommended so at least one, likely all. As always, not a concern if you can turn reporting off..
  37. Rhonda the Sly

    First Successful US Penis Transplant

    Thumbs up, indeed.
  38. Rhonda the Sly

    MS's boot loader sucks.

    To meet some of their goals, the boot experience was designed to be much deeper into Windows in Windows 8 than previous incarnations. I'm sure if you look up the 'Designing Windows 8' blog you can find the articles where they expand on how and why they made the decisions they did.
  39. Rhonda the Sly

    Cruz drops out, Trump 2016 GOP Nominee

    A second thought: Republicans loudly protested the alleged coronation of Hillary Clinton at the beginning of the election season but missed the Donald's. Honestly I think no one could have foreseen the rise of Donald Trump but Cruz, etc. performed perfunctory duty as competitors and not much...