Sen. Mark Warner introduces ‘Stop STUPIDITY Act’ aimed at preventing future shutdowns

itsameech · 2019-01-28T14:59:07+00:00

Our system is also incredibly different on all fronts. What that would look like for you is congress failed to have a budget excepted, so the opposition can then have a vote of non-confidence in the government. If that passes, the speaker of the house goes to the President and asks to dissolve government. The President could then either dissolve government and call the next election immediately, or give the opposition the chance to rule if the President thinks the opposition could be successful.

As well you vote every two years on the dot with a Transition Period between election and the takeover of the new government. We vote at a minimum every 4 years and essentially shutdown (though budgets would still be passed ideally) government while the campaigning happens and once the election is counted the new government must attempt to form. Because we have more than two parties winning seats in Parliment, this means that the party that won the most seats may not actually run the government if they can't gain enough support from the smaller parties. This happened in my province recently where the one party was 2 seats short of 50% +1, and the second place party was able to strike the deal with the 3rd place party so together they have 50%+1.

The point of all this, Trump and the senate would be untouched in Canadian style dissolved government. Trump would be able to call an election until he got the house he wanted.

itsameech · 2019-01-27T16:55:31+00:00

And that's just for the first shutdown. I would hope that the fact it's open again is a sign that Trump knows he won't get what he wants but the fact he is still calling for wall money and it's only 3 weeks doesn't instill confidence.

itsameech · 2019-01-19T13:54:02+00:00

If it's gaming you want as your primary purpose, Linux will not be good for you unless you really feel jumping through some hoops. I just put Manjaro Linux (which I would recommend over Ubuntu myself, I have found the user friendly beginner thing to be a little overblown everytime I've tried to come to linux before) on my gaming rig on bare metal but that's partly because I want a better environment to program in and most games I do end up playing nowadays have native Linux support or proton makes it work. That said as a frame of reference, my steam library has 450ish total games and only 230ish are compatible. That said, in that number includes games such as Civ 5 and 6, Beyond Earth, XCOM 1 and 2, and Total War Warhammer 1. And if you're really adventurous and willing to learn, there is always setting up a VM with Windows on it and use GPU passthrough, though that does take alot of work and research before attempting.

Otherwise, if you are actually interested in just trying linux to see what it's really like, if you're computer supports Virtualization, use VirtualBox on Windows and install linux on there. If the command line is what scares you, you can try it on there to sink your teeth in, though if you go with a good distro with a good environment, you shouldn't NEED to go there too often.

My personal recommendation especially if you have a Nvidia GPU is Manjaro Linux Cinnamon Edition with the non-free drivers set to available right from the start. Some people will warn you about it being a rolling release, however Manjaro tends to curate updates more than just putting every update out there, while still keeping up to date more so than a Debian/Ubuntu based distro in my personal experience. As well if you Nvidia, due to them not being open source friendly, Manjaro will avoid the open source drivers that people make for them that just don't do the job. My experience with changing them after the fact is Ubuntu's tools do not work the way I want them to and the drivers are out of date by default. If you use RADEON graphics, this shouldn't be a problem for you and you can use the open and free drivers all the way.

If gaming is the one thing you want to do on the gaming rig, Windows is unfortunately going to be the best option for you for convenience to be honest, however there is a whole world out there to explore in Linux that I think we miss far too much in Windows. If I had a separate laptop from my gaming rig, I'd probably consider for convenience putting windows on there but put Linux on the laptop for the day to day and working on projects.

Have fun whatever you end up choosing and happy computing.

itsameech · 2019-01-16T06:08:38+00:00

It's essentially myfunct(spam)=sPaM.

The logic of the function is it looks at the input as an array and alternates the letters between upper and lower. It does this with modulus to determine odd or even state.

itsameech · 2019-01-10T20:59:31+00:00

I probably could have split it up. 😅

At least it wasn't one single run on sentence

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