He read Snow Crash and misidentified the protagonist, even though the protagonist's name is Hiro Protagonist, and now he wants to build a world of Burbclaves and sovereign city states without any real central government.
I still have mine too, and really for the same reason. It is such a great design, and the aesthetic of a water-smoothed river stone was really cohesive. The Pre was all smooth lines and soft curves. Just gorgeous.
It is going very poorly here folks. There isn't any other way to say it, except to say it more accurately, which is that it is going about as badly as it has ever gone and seems on a trajectory for going as badly as it is possible to go.
It was such an innovative Mobile UI for its time, and the physical slide-out keyboard of the Pre, was a really satisfying typing experience. These days, people take for granted that they can dismiss an app by simply "flicking" it up and off the screen on your mobile phone, but that whole visual metaphor and activity came from WebOS. It felt like the first true multi-tasking mobile phone. shucks I miss it.
Remembering the BlackBerry keyboard leads me to remembering the Palm Pre, which had so much potential. In many ways, still my favorite phone ever. It's sad to see WebOS reduced to Smart TV shit.
I've worked in commercial aviation for 20+ years. In that time I have flown on hundreds of trips, on aircraft of all sizes, ages and manufacturers. I have visited crash sites mid-cleanup and had the odd sensation of smelling familiar airplane smells perverted by burned Jet-A. I have provided logistical support to families grieving the loss of their loved ones due to the actions of the airline I worked for. In other words, I have spent a lot of time highly aware of how catastrophic a crash can be, but I never felt unsafe flying in all that time because the system itself still felt safe.
Last week my kid flew to Florida, and I have never been so nervous. I almost told them to cancel but that would have freaked them out even more and made me look crazy. But the system doesn't feel safe now. It is not in safe hands.
LeCompte justified the policy by stating he believes the school district could lose federal funding for programs like food assistance, which offers free or reduced-cost meals to eligible low-income families.
“Taking no action could affect federal programs such as feeding our children,” LeCompte said at Monday’s meeting. “It would be a disgrace if some of our children went hungry if this policy failed to pass. For many of our students, it could potentially be their sole meal of the day.”
In case anyone thought there was even a shred of good faith in these people.
Like, Todd, what federal programs exactly? The ones your party is attempting to illegally dismantle in Washington at this literal exact moment?
Also meaningfully different, unless there is an executive order or it's anglo-equivalent I'm unaware of. Many languages have a name for other countries that is different than the name those countries give themselves. Shall we use Germany itself as an example? How do you say South Africa in German? Südafrika, not Republic of South Africa, Republiek van Suid-Afrika, or any other the other 11 official languages from that country.
Okay, sure, but that's just a translation of South and Africa and everyone knows Germans physically cannot resist compound words, so how about France?
It ain't République française, or even Französische Republik. It's Frankreich. This stuff generally happens organically and language develops slower than politics, as evidenced by Frankreich. That's a lot different than this Executive Order. That's an imperial move.
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From what now?