We had several of them in Santa Cruz county, including a really huge one in Capitola, and a super tiny one in the inland side of the Beach Flats just off Ocean Street. I think there are still two there.

Large #9, two scoops of avo, on wheat. Just absolutely my favorite sandwich anywhere.

"which makes this disgusting to fiscal conservatives with a working brain."

No such though because austerity doesn't work.

The luddites wanted all workers to benefit from increases in productivity, the Republican party wants the opposite of that. So no.

"Physically handicapped players who need custom controllers to be able to play at all can get locked out simply because the manufacturers refuse to make the needed hardware."

It's generally pretty easy to connect your own controls to the official controller's PCB, Don't the people who make such controllers know how to do that?

There is no issue with latency in detection of cheating on the server side, unless you insist on stopping it before it happens. That would be nice as it would prevent cheating, but it is not necessary. As long as you are requiring accounts, then it's good enough to detect it after it happens and ban those accounts. If cheaters had to buy another copy after every time they cheated, it would drive them out of the game.

Check out the moderation and you can lose it again :)

I think you have to include Office in the list of things they used to do "right" or at least in a way that supported their business. Notably Excel, which used to be the absolutely most usable spreadsheet that there was. IMO Word peaked with Mac version 5.1, but it used to be pretty good too. Both are now more difficult to use than LibreOffice, and also have more stupid bugs. The one that keeps irritating me with Word lately is saving a document which ends in a list. If and only if you leave the cursor on the last character of a document like that, it will add another (blank) list item AND another paragraph after it when you save. Not sure if this only happens on a quit save or not, I haven't bothered to find out, but either way it's fucking trash.

Anyway, ahem, the point is that Windows and Office had synergy. TBF though, some of that was skullduggery. Specifically, Microsoft was caught using internal functions for Office apps, where the public (published, documented) functions were literally the same functions but with a delay loop. If they had been the same function but with a semaphore they might have had a valid argument about being more familiar with their internals, but that was just obvious anticompetitive fuckery.

It's clearly not due to the content

Yes, it literally is.

The idea might be that the candidates become popular if they have plans which will help the nation, but anything but 100% direct democracy is both the process and principle of allowing The People to decide who will best do that, not specifically how to do that. And nobody has a 100% direct democracy where The People vote on every decision, so every single government which describes itself as a democracy is by some percentage a popularity contest.

Democracy is the idea that people get to vote, even if it is for the wrong reasons. If you don't want them to be able to do that, then you do not want Democracy.

Indeed, the electoral college and first past the post elections are both anti-democratic. The electoral college was instituted specifically to allow slave states to wield more power than was warranted by their policies. And FPTP ensures that people fall into the trap, by punishing them if they vote their conscience or ideals. If Democracy is what is desired then yes of course the states which attract the most population should have the most voting power, that would be Democracy!

Unfortunately, Democracy is vulnerable to Crony Capitalism, which is a typical outcome of Capitalism in general. When you allow control of production to fall to those who have the most capital, then they wield that control to get more and more capital until they have enough to corrupt every process. You simply cannot have Democracy and uncontrolled Capitalism at the same time. Yes you can have Capitalism, but you cannot have it without meaningful controls which are clearly absent in the USA, especially since Citizens United.

The Founding Fathers created this problem by not limiting the powers of political parties in the constitution. They didn't even mention them. The alleged reason for that is that they felt that they shouldn't even exist, but that's obvious bullshit. Not limiting them ensured that they would not only exist, but they could wield basically any amount of power. What we see on "both sides" is that the parties are under the control of Capital.

We have two extremist sides which are extremist in both the same way and different ways. Both major parties are committed to doing the will of capital. One of them is also committed to destroying the concept of human rights, which they can do because it is only a concept. If nobody will protect your rights, they effectively do not exist. A lot of people appeal to religion to claim that they are inherent things which people have, but that's obviously false; if they were, nobody could take them away from you. You don't even have the rights to your own thoughts if you don't have the right to remain free, as people can tamper even with what you believe if they can subject you to enough abuse.

Which ones?

They never will be missed.

All it will cost is $1 a year plus all American's PII and PHI and FTI

People did think of that. It's called PRT. We can't have it because of the influence of the worldwide automobile industry's lobbying on various governments.

Try the large #9 with avocado on it, to die for.

Speaking of which, is car automation to die for? We had the technology for self-steering vehicles in the 1800s. It's called rail.

They still had keyboards in TOS.

Presumably there will also still be vintage computing nerds in the future.