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Donald Trump can’t decide which person he is on immigration—the one with love or the one who prefers Nordics to Nigerians. Meanwhile, Hawaii tells its people a ballistic missile is on its way but surprise! It isn’t. And everybody blames Trump anyway. It’s our first podcast of the week. Give a listen.
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It wasn’t even a drop-down menu. The interface is a WEB PAGE with a random list of functions:
(Colored boxes are added to the screenshot.)
Do you see how the TEST functions are in the same list with the REAL MCCOY?
Do you know what awful GUI design that is? I am not even a programmer and I could create that thing in Notepad.
That’s how bad. The project to upgrade the GUI has probably been started and derailed multiple times by funding complications and internal politics.
This is why the guy who clicked the wrong entry wasn’t fired: the GUI designers should be, but they’re undoubtedly contractors who finished the project in 1998 and have since retired.
Your tax dollars at work.
No doubt the GUI designers were hired by democrats to improve diversity.
That UI is…not ready for production. Or an early beta release, for that matter.
If you don’t want anyone pushing the Death Button, at least put some tape over it.
Jeez. What is going on here? Each ‘show’ (podcast) has been lazy. Maybe they have the flu.
They’re just phoning it in.
Holey crap! I was picturing a rather stoutly constructed mechanical switch with a red cover protecting it and with the cover “safety wired” so that it could be broken and opened with brute force, but not accidentally, as when somebody’s sleeve got caught on it.
How do they think that screen will be working after the first preemptive electromagnetic pulse?
From the Time article (which they won’t let me post because the bad word is in the link
They have you chasing your tail on a fake talking point. It wasn’t *purely* race based. It was a crass way to phrase the cultural one.
I think even the Commentary Crew is tired of talking about Trump. The long discussion at the beginning of the podcast about the terminology surrounding phone technology seemed like an attempt by J-Pod to delay the inevitable.
I’m usually on board with Commentary, but not their comments about the latest hole controversy. It is simply too big of a stretch to say that Trump’s offhand characterization of the quality of the countries from where people are immigrating into the United States is racist. In addition, I hear much worse language every day at work.
I’m pro-immigration and would favor increased immigration from all countries. Both skilled immigration and chain migration are possible and good for both this country, the country the immigrants are leaving, and the immigrants themselves. But it doesn’t help the debate over immigration by cheapening it into a shouting match over who is racist, and it won’t convert even one person into a pro-immigration stance from an anti-immigration one. The opposite is true I imagine.
Id, shmid. Politicians with a survival instinct don’t make comments like S..hole countries surrounded by hostiles. And I’ll bet some of the Republicans in the room aren’t so friendly either. You indicated this early on before you went all Freudian. What’s the intellectual, logical part of the brain? Superego I think. That’s where Trump runs into trouble. He may have passed that trick or treat mental exam the doctor to presidents gave him, but smart he ain’t. My 5 year old grand-daughter can distinguish an elephant from a rhino.
Oh, I don’t disagree. It’s just that the supposed controversy is Much Ado About Nothing. Let’s talk about the merits of the policy proposals, not the demerits of using four letter words.
Wouldn’t that be nice. But you’d need a different President for that to happen. One that actually has some clue of what he is talking about.