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Personally, I think it’s a shame that we can’t have another Ginsburg. A 4th amendment privacy rights hawk who’s not terribly sympathetic to law enforcement. Exactly the kind of antidote that the US needs post-9/11.

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I’d say very different from the stereotype of Asian Asians(*), in the sense that there’s not that sense of needing to work the entirety of one’s free time.

(*)- there are of course both East and South Asian communities in Caribbean countries.

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Re: Sanders. I don’t see national insurance or higher ed subsidies killing entrepreneurship in Australia or New Zealand. Rather, they afford people more of an opportunity to become enterpreneurs, irrespective of background.

The problem with immigration in Europe is that many countries exclusively follow jus sanguinis with respect to citizenship, with naturalization being next to impossible. Families can live in a country for generations and still not become citizens.

In the US, we do jus soli as well, and the right is protected by the Constitution. If you’re born here, you’re a citizen even if your parents are not. Helps integration over the long run.

My point is that a lot of the West Indians I know manage to work smart and maintain a work-life balance vs just working hard. Even after coming to the US.

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Unless the forums require a login to view and/or are set to “no index”, this is a public site. HTTPS or not.

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It’s well known that over-the-air HDTV has better definition than cable — cable is known to be lossily compressed.

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^^^

That’s a feature not a bug. Work-life-fun balance is a good thing.

And actually, I’ve met (dated in some cases) quite a few West Indians who, while not the most hard working, were shrewd businesspeople. Invested in real estate, owned small businesses in NYC, and the like. Not to mention smart, well-read, and generally interested in the world.

Being wedded to a career at the expense of life is way over-rated.

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I love the brisk cold weather. It’s nice to feel the seasons change — if I wanted to live somewhere with poozzy-azz weather all year round, I’d move.

Though probably to a secondary Caribbean country, not to San Diego. San Diego is too organized and Americanized for my tastes.

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Unemployment is a lagging indicator. It’s usually the last thing to trough before a recession.

Everyone says the factors are unimportant until the excrement hits the propeller.

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Still below $30/bbl after falling to what, 26? It’s lovely that the Russians and Saudis (aka supporters of wahhabi thugs) are getting the thumbscrews tightened on them. Same idea as crashing oil prices in the 80s to kill the USSR economically.

And yes, it doesn’t hurt that the polluting frack industry in the US is being decimated. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of poisoners.

They used to shoot people for poisoning wells, after all.

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Multiple tabs and programs open add up quickly. Sites and OS’s are bloated in 2016, deal with it.

Email, I have about 10GB offline synced with an IMAP server.

Also, 32GB of local storage = fail. Give me a 240/256GB flash drive. You can get business-grade Thinkpads used very cheaply, plonk in an SSD and 8GB of RAM and have an amazingly fast, stellar system for about $300. Thinkpad T220 or X201 = $150 used. SSD = $100 new. RAM = $50.

They’re bad ass. Light. 4-5 hr of batt life. And I’ve dropped ’em without a case and had them scratch without further damage.

Windows 7 of course means less spyware and no advertising bullshyte. “Get office 365”. Yeah, bite me, I’ll stick with OpenOffice and not pay a monthly mordida.

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Actually, dense urban areas are slow to get good Internet access. The easiest to wire are ‘burbs in non-union heavy states. Hence, things like Scroogle Fibber (misspelling deliberate) are brought to states like Misery and Takesass first.

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He’s more spry than Clinton who’s widely reported as not being so healthy.

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NASDAQ is 1% from bearland.

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If Sanders has an accident, I hope it leads to mass demonstrations that shut this fuckin country DOWN.

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2GB of RAM. Good luck not throwing the bloody thing out of a window when it’s unusably slow.

This reads like an article on netbooks from 2009, except that the OS has fucking spyware built in.

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