For me, it's helpful to remember what the underlying reality is.
Skewed for population and colored on a red-blue scale to reflect vote mix.
When those votes are counted, the resulting electoral votes align to those votes, which results in maps like what you showed. When strategists tune their messages to target demographics they can divide (e.g., rural vs. urban), they're playing a game of inches and shades on this map of purple goo, and that's still the reality behind the ultimate electoral vote, even if it doesn't feel like it.
An Italian-ish sandwich (ham, salame, lettuce, tomato, cheese, giardiniera, oil+seasonings, and mayo, on wheat) with peperonicini-flavored kettle chips/crisps
Pork carnitas "street" tacos with borracho black beans
It blows my mind that centuries-old concepts "let's not jump to hasty conclusions" and "people should be free to protest the government but not break the law" just got called "flaming progressive".
edit: Sorry, now I see what you're saying, that those were some points that pull people from across the aisle.
Keep in mind, though, so far, we only know it to be a user experience issue.
“Incomplete paper and online applications will not be accepted,” Evans said in the statement. (Parker’s cancellation request would have lacked a driver’s license number.) The Secretary of State’s Office did not respond to individual questions about what testing the portal underwent before launch, the system’s security procedures, what happened to Parker’s cancellation request....
It doesn't matter what the browser says if the end user tampered with the running page to make it say something. It matters if the application might have been processed. They're claiming it wouldn't have been processed since it was incomplete (lacking ID number). We'd need to know how this was handled on the back end to know how risky it really was. It could still have been bad, but this isn't, in itself, proof of an actual problem.
edit: Just to be clear, I'm not saying it shouldn't be investigated. It really should be, as the article claims, an all-hands-on-deck moment. I'm just saying that the article makes the case that it should be investigated to ascertain what would have happened to the incomplete application submission to assess the exposure, not that it definitely was a vulnerability at all.
“Incomplete paper and online applications will not be accepted,” Evans said in the statement. (Parker’s demonstration cancellation request would have lacked a driver’s license number.) The Secretary of State’s Office did not respond to individual questions about what testing the portal underwent before launch, the system’s security procedures, what happened to Parker’s cancellation request....
Yeah, that tells us we just don't know if this was a problem after all. Evans's statement basically claims it wasn't a vulnerability. If that's correct, then the worst thing might be if someone's browser tripped on the validation JS and allowed them down a blind alley execution path. If the claim is correct and if the page's JS never shits the bed, then in that case the only negative outcome would be someone dicking with the in-browser source could lead themselves down the blind alley, in which case who cares. The only terrible outcome seems like it would be if the claim is incorrect--i.e. if an incomplete application submission would be processed, thus allowing exploit.
Short of an internal audit, there's no smoking gun here.
The naval group, consisting of a training ship, patrol frigate and refueling tanker,
Oh, cough ha, ok.
The arrival of the vessels comes mere weeks after another squadron of Russian warships, including a powerful nuclear-powered submarine, visited Havana as part of planned military exercises last month.
Going off on a tangent, but are vacancies keeping rent high or are they a result of overpriced rent not responding to market pressure? It seems like vacancies should mean low demand at the current price, which, in my little econ 101 view of the world, should push the price down.
Haliey Welch used to wake up at 3:30 a.m. every morning to go to work at a spring factory in Belfast, Tennessee.
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Now, Welch is sleeping in.
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She may be small town, but she's savvy. Welch is taking what started as embarrassment and is turning it into a career. She's assembled a team consisting of an attorney, a management company and a PR firm. That team is entertaining appearances with price tags north of $25,000 each, according to her manager, Jonnie Forster, owner of Los Angeles-based management firm The Penthouse.
"Right now, she can make more money holding up a can for five minutes than she made all last year," Forster said.
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Once she saw the merchandise being made and sold online by other people, she thought, "If everyone else is making money off of it, I might as well, too."
She quit her job at the spring factory on June 27.
I haven't given up on being a stick in the mud keeping Austin a little different from other parts of Texas. The loudest idiots in this state rebuke Austin as something un-Texan, but I'm not going anywhere and am continuing to live and vote the way I do. I know it's a little easier for me to say this, not having to worry about kids, so I don't expect others to make the same choice, even if they feel the same way.
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I gnu y'all would find a way to pun it up.