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My laptop started crashing a week and a half ago.  I need it for class (need it IN class), so this is a problem.  It crashed once, restarted, and then was fine.  Whew.  Nope.  Crashed later.  And then again.  Slowly crashing more frequently until Sunday when it did it 6 times in an hour.  Was fine after that.  UNtil yesterday.  Wouldn't boot.  Googling said problem was likely an HD issue.  I've had this thing for 5-6 months.  Took it in, because, again, I need it for class.  Otherwise I'd send it back to Lenovo to get it fixed.  They look at it and the diagnosis is "wtf is wrong we have no idea".  So they put it back together (was gonna get a new HD put in it, a refurbished SSDinstead of this relatively new HDD), with a new HD, and it won't work.  They can't read this HD at all, much less scan for bad sectors.  They put this HD back in and I'm typing this from the laptop that won't boot.  It's....working now?  BUt for how long?  NO idea!

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Off Topic Fun / Re: The Politics Thread v3
« on: September 10, 2016, 10:33:01 AM »
You could literally be Moussolini?  You know, instead of just aspiring to be like him?

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Off Topic Fun / Re: The Politics Thread v3
« on: September 08, 2016, 09:37:41 AM »
Gary Johnson just had his Uzbekibekibekibekistanstan moment  :lmao

Reporter: "What would you do about Allepo"

Johnson: "and what is Allepo?"

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Off Topic Fun / Re: The Politics Thread v3
« on: August 29, 2016, 09:58:12 PM »
Mainers do not like him all that much. Some do, yes, but not a lot of them.  I can see Clinton getting 2 votes, and Trump and Johnson each getting one there.  maybe Trump gets two of them, but it's gonna be close.  I really think Clinton's getting two of the votes there, and Johnson may get one.

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Off Topic Fun / Re: The Politics Thread v3
« on: August 21, 2016, 08:50:31 PM »
The DoJ is no longer using private prisons for federal cases, and has also now said set bail minimums are unconstitutional.  huh.  Saving all the prison reforms you promised until the last 6 months I see.

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Off Topic Fun / Re: The Politics Thread v3
« on: August 15, 2016, 06:44:13 PM »
Rudy Giuliani of all people forgot about 9/11.  Or....maybe he knows something....he did specify "radical Islamic attack"....so maybe....did he just admit Bush did 7/11?

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Is it possible for a game to actually hate you?  It really seams like Renowned Explorers hates me sometimes.  Just finished a run trying to get platinum in the challenge last week, missed THREE TREASURES because I failed FIVE consecutive 95% rolls.  Fell short by about 3.2k renown on the 9k platinum medal!  Started out so well too, should have been fine with the score, except I missed literally the most important treasure to get for my score, and RNG decided to not grace me with the other treasures I'd like.

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Off Topic Fun / Re: The Politics Thread v3
« on: July 30, 2016, 10:16:49 AM »
I see the points both ways on this.  I'm honestly pretty torn.  I have to admit, while I have said I'm probably voting Stein, I really don't think she's great.  She's not exactly pro-science*, So essentially, my voting for her has always been essentially a protest vote.  Hillary is...bad.  Not many people can argue, progressives and left leaning people anyways, that she's good.  She's going to be about as good as a Bush presidency.  This is pretty much not disputed from anyone I know following politics.  A lot of people forget, but Bush Jr was pretty okay for minorities, with his rhetoric.  After 9/11 he did issue a call to not blame Muslims for it, blame the terrorists.  He was fairly pro-immigrant.  He was somewhat corrupt, but not hugely so.  He was bad for foreign policy, bad for domestic policy, but not 100% destructively so.  Hillary will be about like that.  I can live through that pretty easily.  Trump is a wild card, I don't know exactly what will happen.  I know his positions, both the news version and the actual versions he has on his website, and they are....survivable if the system works.  The SCOTUS is an issue for long term stuff, but again, if the system works, with checks and balances, that might not be a huge deal.  Hillary has more long term implications.  If she wins, and she probably will, it's not that her policies will cause massive problems in the country, it's that long term she will affect no positive change, and keep us in this sort of pseudo oligarchical structure, with special interests being able to buy elections and money ruling everything still with the disaffected being the foot stools for years to come.  Her problem is that in the future, long term past 4 years, is that there will be a bigger backlash against people like her going forward.

This is all negated if in fact she actually means what she said later on in her campaign, after she tried to become Sanders.  However, picking Tim Kaine, listening to Wall Street to avoid picking Warren, her friends outright saying she's going to flip on TPP, etc. all indicate that she's not being honest with those positions.

*She suffers from a worse position as Sanders on science, Sanders is anti-nuclear power, which environmentalists should absolutely be all about.  She is more anti-nuclear than him, but also kind of an anti-vaxxer, but not really.  She's not so anti-vax as to really color her positions too much, so it's not a huge deal.  But it exists, so I know some third party voters who are reluctant because of that.  But also, there's the stuff she's been pulling lately, she's essentially become Hillary of the progressives, saying that she's the anti-Hillary choice, not that she's the progressive choice.  Over the past couple months she's been wearing thin on me because of it.

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Off Topic Fun / Re: The Politics Thread v3
« on: July 26, 2016, 01:37:10 PM »
While there is evidence of Russians hacking the DNC, what there is no evidence of is them helping Trump.  Basically the whole thing was essentially "uh....LOOK THE RUSSIANS EVERYONE PAY ATTENTION TO THAT".  It reeked of using a foreign "other" to sway politics, the 'otherism' that defined McCarthyism.

I'm also old enough to remember the 2000 election.  I'd venture a guess to say my feelings on it are different?  I don't blame Nader for Gore's loss, at all.  I think it's wrong to blame him for it.  If he didn't run, it's likely Gore would have won, but there were a lot of other problems.  Gore wasn't a strong candidate for one, and you can blame the SCOTUS a bit as well.  In other words, much like all politics, it wasn't a simple 'who's at fault'.  Bush was a very strong candidate that year.  2004 was much different, but defeating an incumbent is very hard to do.

A note on defeating incumbents.  There is a major difference between an incumbent and and someone trying to be the current position's ideological continuation.  In 1988, Bush was the incumbent-lite.  He won.  Barely.  And then lost, because he wasn't a real incumbent.  In 2000, the incumbent-lite was Gore, the previous VP.  This time, Hillary is in that role.  Generally, after an incumbent's term is up, the voting block swings to the other end of the ideological spectrum, electing a conservative person after a liberal person, and a liberal after a conservative.  This is all relatives, of course.  Bush can be seen as more liberal than Reagan, but Clinton was more liberal than him.  So that change DID happen in that election, it just didn't switch parties.  And it fed into Clinton's election.  Gore, however, was NOT to the right of Clinton.  He was to the left.  That really hurt his chances of winning.  Clinton is to the right of Obama.  She will win, and that she is conservative is not a small part of why she'll be elected.  However.  She will be replaced in her re-election bid by someone more conservative, most likely.  There's a chance someone more liberal replaces her, but my money's on a republican at least.  If there's a more liberal republican, that person will likely beat her in re-election.

TL:DR the grass is always greener, except when you can't see it.  Incumbents are grass you can see, challengers are grass you can't, incumbent-lites are the grass you already have but can't see.

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Off Topic Fun / Re: The Politics Thread v3
« on: July 24, 2016, 12:19:15 PM »
We've hit Peak McCarthyism.  The (R)s are doing it in the neo-McCarthy method of accusing people are secret Muslims and such.  The Dems are now doing it the old school way, blaming the WikiLeaks hack on the Russians to try to help Trump.

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Off Topic Fun / Re: The Politics Thread v3
« on: July 22, 2016, 07:34:08 PM »
So...Wikileaks released a bunch of emails to/from the DNC and (D)s.  In it, the DNC and its employees discuss preventing Sanders from doing anything, call his supporters 'Bernie Bros' and 'the insurgency'.  Tried to use his religion to discredit him to voters.  There's hidden donations, and an email from them to donor about how the donor shouldn't email them at all.  There's a wealth of issue that need to be addressed in it, and....wow.  They even sent an email to Chuck Todd to tell him to "stop this".  What?

EDIT: Also, apparently needing to appeal more to conservatives, Hillary has chosen Tim Kaine as her running mate.

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Off Topic Fun / Re: The Politics Thread v3
« on: July 18, 2016, 07:30:21 PM »
Turkey's been in trouble for a while, but because they've been somewhat anti-ISIS we as a country and Europe as a group has been largely forgiving their transgressions.  So now it's come to a head, and I had to listen to some pundits the other day express surprise at something that I was expecting, and anyone should expect, to happen, happening.  I wasn't expecting a coup, specifically, I was expecting Turkey to just....kind of explode a bit.  Be it protests and riots against Erdogan, or a coup (we've known the military there isn't really....under control of its leaders as much as most military commanders would like, and this is confirmation), or terrorist attacks becoming more frequent (hey....wait a second....), whatever.

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Off Topic Fun / Re: The Politics Thread v3
« on: July 16, 2016, 04:06:27 AM »
:P :D ... kudos to DMan on his Trump Mind Meld.

And for my next trick, Trump will say something calculatedly stupid, like I don't know, "Mike Pence likes gay people".  No, not stupid enough, too blunt.  But not fabricated on the spot sounding....how about, "Erdogan must go".  He's going to take that stance tomorrow, but ALSO say that Turkey needs to be stable.  It combines both stances on what all sides in America feel about the situation, depending on what they know about it, but leaves room for him to claim he was right all along whichever way things turn out.  He'll express regret that the coup failed, but also state that he's glad Turkey will still kill terrorists, and that Erdogan needs to step down, or he'll die.  Then later, when confronted about this, he'll state that the press is out to get him, and note that he wanted Turkey to be stable, given their efforts in fighting ISIS which "is way more effective than Obama ever has been", so of course he should stay in power.  Then he'll find out he's essentially a dictator, and praise him, fully backing him for his alleged war crimes and human rights violations.

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Off Topic Fun / Re: The Politics Thread v3
« on: July 13, 2016, 07:46:02 PM »
You, and everyone expressing this sentiment, are driving me insane. Mostly the people posting one preachy message at a time.

Going by what I've seen, you'd think Hillary was proposing everyone eat babies once a week and Trump was a saint now.
Serious question: what is Hillary's stance on our drone strike programs, and the civilian casulities they incur? Or are we still defining all dead individuals between 16 and 60 as terrorists?

I have no problem with the use of drones.  In fact, I'd prefer them be used.  They are more accurate than a fighter-bomber, and less expensive, and safer.  I do have a problem with how they've been used.  But I think it's missing a bit of the point saying Obama's used more drones than all other presidents combined, because he's had them, and better ones, his whole presidency, and Bush didn't see them until later on.  There's some other considerations at play, as this is a very complex issue, and I think the biggest drawback is that because they're so cheap and easy, they're more likely to be used.  However they are safer with regards to civilian casualties than the alternatives.  In my view they are a tool that can be very useful if used correctly.

As for Clinton's view, it's probably similar to that, with the addendum that for her the 'more likely to be used' thing is not a drawback, so she would be more likely to use them prolifically than I would.  And by that I mean she'd actually use them, because she'd be very active in militaristic strategies.

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Off Topic Fun / Re: The Politics Thread v3
« on: July 13, 2016, 12:31:24 PM »
And I'm disappointed by people who are like you're describing Raineh. I always say vote your conscience, the person best for the job. I will most likely vote Stein in the general, because I don't vote for conservatives, and Trump is insane.  Hillary can be awful, but trump far worse, this is a thing that is possible, and in my mind it is true.  Hillary will win the general, hopefully we can send a message with enough people voting 3rd party that it breaks the two party system, if only for a while, and things will be like they were in the late 90s/early 2000s.  Trump sends us back to the 50s, Clinton only sends us back 20 years. It won't be THAT bad, but things will be worse than they are now with respect to certain policy types.  Then things will get better.  The presidency doesn't have as immediate of an effect as people think.

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Off Topic Fun / Re: The Politics Thread v3
« on: July 12, 2016, 08:50:47 PM »
Continue working towards a better future.  Elect the local Berniecrats in your area, and change the system from the bottom up.  I wasn't expecting him to do even this well, deserving the nomination after all the BS he and his supporters were put through.  All Clinton had to do was not screw it up, and she did, hard.  Being a Clinton had a lot to do with it of course.  Clinton is in the awkward position of barely beating (and having to rely on shenanigans to beat) someone who didn't want to be president to the nomination of the party her opponent wasn't even a part of.  That's how bad of a candidate she is.

Bernie didn't want the nomination or the presidency.  He wanted to revitalize the leftward movement of the 30s and 60s, bring progressive politics back into vogue.  He has absolutely accomplished his goals.  There are more young people engaged than....dare I say ever before?  If not ever before in percentage, at least in volume.  He got a coalition of young people involved in politics and he has encouraged and provided the spark for the next generations to take back politics from the corporate politics it is now.  He understood that this was a long march towards progress, not a revolution.  A lot of his followers didn't, but now they are part of the new revolution in 4 years.  The worst is yet to come, but this is not a pessimistic or painful thing.  4-8 years from now, after Hillary loses her reelection bid to whoever the (R)s put up, will be bad.  But then things will get better.  After that election, maybe even before, a lot of the Berniecrats will be moving up the ranks in the world of politics.  He has planted the seeds of change, and in 8-16 years time we will reap the rewards.  Eventually, he will be vindicated, and celebrated, when one of his charges, those who heeded his call to arms, takes the oath and swears in to the presidency.  It will come, in our lifetime.

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Is this a laptop thing or something?  Whenever I boot up my laptop, the display size is just wrong.  It fluctuates between 125% (the default) and 150% looking right.  It's regular, so if I restarted my laptop right now, it would go back to the 125% looking right.  And this is for text size, window size, etc.  Chrome....doesn't seem to respond to the size changes?  I don't know....it's really weird, but this laptop and my last one on Win10 both have this problem.

And my screen has a much biggerbreak in it. now I need togetit repaired.  Beforeit was okay.  Now?  Not so much.

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Is this a laptop thing or something?  Whenever I boot up my laptop, the display size is just wrong.  It fluctuates between 125% (the default) and 150% looking right.  It's regular, so if I restarted my laptop right now, it would go back to the 125% looking right.  And this is for text size, window size, etc.  Chrome....doesn't seem to respond to the size changes?  I don't know....it's really weird, but this laptop and my last one on Win10 both have this problem.

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Off Topic Fun / Re: The Politics Thread v3
« on: July 06, 2016, 02:16:25 PM »
I....I....I was right....I was right!  Pence is gearing up to be the VP pick!  I....holy carp.  That is good AND bad news at the same time.  Pence as the VP pick lends more credence to 'Trump doesn't want it', but also means he can't run for governor again!  Which means...it...means....John Gregg is the next governor of Indiana?  Holy carp?

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