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    I find the puter is more convenient. I thought it would be nice to sit by the campfire and post online, but found it was easier to ride back to the house and do it from the computer, then return to the fire. If I'm out with friends, then I wouldn't think of posting. If I'm riding, I won't be posting. If I'm shopping, I'm not posting. If I'm driving, I'm not posting. The only time I would think of posting is when I'm by my computer. How can you beat a 36" monitor and fullsize keyboard? It seems much more convenient to me. Even my laptop is easier. Of course, my machines are always on, so maybe that's why it's easier for me. I just wiggle the mouse and start typing.
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    Where? Anything to do with atvs and bikes are dead. Gardening is dead. On Arborday, many sections have the last post in 2012. Same with forestry boards. Economics, philosophy = dead, dead. There may a couple guys hanging around (including mods), but nothing like pre-2013. If you know of a happening place, sharing would be awesome Gardenweb turned into Houzz, which is more like twitter than a discussion forum. I can't quote anyone nor even address anyone unless I type their name, which makes it difficult to have a discussion. Why remove all functionality from a forum and reduce it to mere comments if not to make it compatible with mobile devices? Check it out http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/4577204/heirloom-tomatoes?n=2 It's really pretty horrible. This thread is a good example http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/1928060/when-do-hybrids-become-heirlooms?n=17 All the long posts were 2013 and earlier. In 2016 they were reduced to a handful of words. Any discussion of the length that I am typing is surely from a pc because no one is going to torture themselves to do it on a phone. That's what I mean by "handicapping" and "dumbing-down". Now it does, but it's too little too late. It took so long for mobile to evolve such that people can type anything of length and it took so long for forum software to work with mobile that any desire to share was eaten up by facebook and twitter which cater to short posts anyway. Why come back to forums now? It was just last year that guys on thumpertalk were complaining that they couldn't embed youtube links from their phones and that was so until the forum software was updated earlier this year. The owner of thumpertalk says it is busier than ever, but I bet if a word-tally were done, it would be less than ever. The content is lacking and is basically just a stream of funny remarks. Discussion forums are dead. Witty one-liners are 'in' and that is because anything more than that is too difficult from a mobile device. It's intellectual neutering on the altar of convenience. Sure, on a challenge, one could do on a mobile device what I can do on a pc, but they'll work much harder at it and eventually they'll say it's not worth all the effort and the conversation will be left hanging... just like forums were abandoned for the same reason. Yup, usually you have to quote someone for them to be notified and that's one thing mobile users never do. They just comment and I never see it because I wasn't notified.
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    Mobile devices killed forums and any medium of lengthy discussion. Most forums seem to have died around 2013 which occurred right as smartphones took off: Facebook has little to do with it since it's been around for 13 years and was quite popular on the PC. We've been handicapped by technology and lengthy discussion has been dumbed-down into pithy comments that fit onto a small screen... and coincidentally, twitter. I don't pay attention to guys coming on asking how to fix their machines anymore. As far as it seems, they may as well be coming to my door and asking for money because I'll certainly get nothing from the exchange. Once they get the help, they'll be gone with no gratitude or anything. In the past, they would hang around a while and post pics and updates on how the rebuild is going so that I at least got something out of helping them. It was fun while it lasted, but forums are dead. I have over 5000 posts at atvconnection, but I never ever go there anymore. The only reason I come here is that stuff shows up in my email and I think "ah what the heck."
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    I just have to say... Trump is the best president ever!!! It's like a fulltime job keeping up with how many butt's he's kicked. When does he sleep??? Trump Slams "Astronomical" Drug Prices, Tells CEOs To "Get Prices Down" For the first time in my life I feel the government is really here to help. One commenter said "Whoever it was on ZH who said Trump wasn't just our President but our National Dad was a genius. Dad's home and he's PISSED. Clean up that mess! Take that trash out! If this isn't cleaned up by the time your Mother gets home I swear to God... I mean look at the impact he's had just by putting a little bass in his voice and embarassing a few CEOs. He hasn't even passed a law yet." "National Dad" is very fitting. Too many in this country never had dads (or any that were worth anything) and it's exactly what we need!
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    My premise is false because you say so. LOL! Because they just have to have their way. Molyneux's subscriptions are going up by 1-2000 per day. I thank God for that. Maybe between Trump and education on critical thinking, we can turn fate around.
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    I made the claim that religious people are more likely to be moral and you basically said "yeah, but I know a guy..." Molyneux made a video about that very thing and said if someone claims asian people are shorter on average than blacks, then someone who says, "Yeah, but I know a chinese guy who is tall" isn't making an argument. So what if some religious people were immoral? It's doesn't disprove my premise, which is the left is tolerant of everyone. You could drink the blood of aborted fetuses by the light of the moon and the left will stand behind your right to do it. The only thing the left can't stand is Christianity because it's a religion that claims things are wrong. Sure, some lefties are moral and some righties are immoral, but that doesn't negate my premise. To do that, you'd have to show something the left rejects as morally wrong as a group because that's the only way they could have a moral foundation. You can't have a moral foundation where there is no such thing as right and wrong. Moreover, the left seems to go one step further and claims a moral foundation is, itself, morally wrong because then you'd be a judgmental and intolerant person. And my point is if someone has a proclivity for immoral behavior, they're more likely to join the left than the right. If there is voter fraud, it's more likely to come from the left. Exceptions notwithstanding.
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    Fox news is not mainstream? Or is mainstream only defined as "against Trump"? No clue. My guess, based on evidence, is the Dems far outweigh GOP in fraud. Any evidence or rationale for that conjecture? Or are you saying that because you'd like it to be true? I don't consider myself member of either party and generally think GOP are dumber than Dems, but I don't think they are as crazy and therefore not as likely to commit fraud. Plus they are religious. I'd suspect someone displaying jesus in a jar of urine of fraud before considering someone going to church every sunday, but I could be wrong. The Dems lack any moral foundation because "anything goes" with them. GOP tends to have values they adhere to, which aggravates the Dems and is pretty much the reason for their existence. Without conservatism, there would be no tyranny to be free from.
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    "Von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow and manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative at the Heritage Foundation, said voter fraud is prevalent enough that it could make the difference in a close election. The Heritage Foundation, he said, has recorded 430 cases of voter fraud -- proven cases where someone was convicted or a judge ordered a new election. A former FEC commissioner and counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the U.S. Justice Department, von Spakovsky said California is of particular concern because of the rising number of noncitizens illegally registering and voting in elections, as well as the “terrible shape” the voter registration rolls are in." http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/11/03/voter-fraud-california-man-finds-dozens-ballots-stacked-outside-home.html Apparently it can be done. Anyway, fraud, if it exists, would be on the democrats' part for sure. One look at the protests will tell you that these people would do anything to get their way. This guy goes undercover in drag to interview them and found they don't even know what they're protesting about. They just need someone to hate.
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    Trump To Launch "Major Investigation Into Voter Fraud" http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-25/trump-launch-major-investigation-voter-fraud One commenter said " Smart. If sufficient evidence captured, it will legitimize his mandate and blow the Dems from the political scene " I agree.
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    I've not found any information to lead me to otherwise opinion. Molyneux received a B.A. in History from McGill University in 1991 and an M.A. in History from University of Toronto in 1993. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Molyneux FWD to 2:17:00 if you don't want to listen to all of it. He makes the claim that the increase in the influence of women in public life has often been associated with national decline. A similar situation was observed in the Arab empire. It may have nothing to do with feminism per se, but that as empires become more successful, they get more liberal in general and that leads to their fall.
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    Grandpa is 4 months older than Carter and looks about the same, but not quite as healthy. He just got out of surgery today and still waiting to hear from the dr. "He's not my president" is one giant ad hominem attack instead of protesting one specific issue they object to. It's depressing seeing such little intellectual development, but certainly emotional, in light of all the technological progress we've made. I hope Trump can clean up the mess with his newfound "dictatorial powers." I'm referencing this: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-24/trump-bans-epa-employees-using-social-media-bars-new-contracts Because, if there is any truth to this https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/feminism-responsible-for-the-fall-of-rome/ Then I think a dictator is the only thing that can stop the inevitable because the majority of voters are completely looney.
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    I was surprised to see Jimmy Carter. He's gotta be the oldest one there! http://time.com/4639799/jimmy-carter-beat-cancer-donald-trump-inauguration/
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    Snowflake
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    I did search. I read: During his time in London, Litvinenko wrote two books, Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within and Lubyanka Criminal Group, wherein he accused the Russian secret services of staging the Russian apartment bombings and other terrorism acts in an effort to bring Vladimir Putin to power. He also accused Putin of ordering the murder in October 2006 of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. So I figured it's about censorship. The assassination of Anna Politkovskaya (born 1958), a Russian journalist, writer and human rights activist, took place on 7 October 2006. She was known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict and for criticism of Vladimir Putin.[1][2] She authored several books about the Chechen wars, as well as Putin's Russia, and received numerous international awards for her work. Her murder, believed to be a contract killing, sparked a strong international reaction. The US does things like that too. Some accuse the CIA of killing Kennedy and are currently worried about Trump's safety. All the stories I've read about people being "suicided" in the US over the last year bear little distinction from what Putin is being accused of. We just don't know the whole story. Putin is far from Stalin, I think. We also can't tell if Putin did the killing or if someone else did to set Putin up. These things are rabbit holes. Anyway, I think when Stephan Colbert pokes fun at Trump for taking orders from Putin, it's sensationalized. He's not really taking orders and Putin isn't a big threat, but "Russia" is an emotionally-charged word hearkening from the coldwar period you mentioned in an effort to stigmatize people no different than calling folks "socialists" as a way to rally the mob against someone. Now if he were friendly with Kim Jong Un, that would be a different story.
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    Censorship is the one thing you may have against Putin. In 2013, Russia enacted laws banning "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations" Putin also defends Russia's controversial gay "propaganda" law. "I don't see anything un-democratic in this legal act," Putin tells 60 Minutes. "I believe we should leave kids in peace. We should give them a chance to grow, help them to realize who they are and decide for themselves. Do they consider themselves a man or a woman? A female? A male? Do they want to live in a normal, natural marriage or a non-traditional one? That's the only thing I wanted to talk about. I don't see here any infringement on the rights of gay people." http://www.cbsnews.com/news/putin-talks-gay-rights-on-60-minutes/ Grandpa fought in WWII and worked half a century to earn the right to sit in his chair and be compelled to watch to men smooching. It just isn't right. Gays can be gay, just stay out of grandpa's living room. I think that is what Putin is trying to do, but the media wants to paint a picture of how common homosexuality is so it will be more accepted. It's propaganda and some feel it is helping to destroy the family, which I think Putin agrees. It doesn't make Putin a bad man.
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    I think you're pretty close to hitting the nail on the head there. https://www.quantcast.com/zerohedge.com#demographicsCard https://www.quantcast.com/salon.com#demographicsCard https://www.quantcast.com/politico.com?country=US#demographicsCard https://www.quantcast.com/nydailynews.com?country=US#demographicsCard All overwhelmingly male and of the baby boomer generation. What can explain that?
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    What's the difference in friends going hunting and trusting each other with guns and friends trusting each other with nukes? Does Putin seem so bad to you? The people have been divided for a long time, but this time they had a lot invested in the election. Male vs female, right vs left, businessman vs politician, nationalism vs globalism,,, it was all on the line this time. Trump is even the first real threat to abortion since Roe v Wade. It's like Boom, one swoop and everything changed. So, the people haven't changed... it's was the extreme polarization of the candidates this time. What seems strange to me is this sort of thing is in the air. Brexit then Trump. Who's next? I've noticed wherever I go (news sites, financial sites, youtube, atvs, bikes, whatever) it seems to be dominated by conservatives. How is it that more people voted for Hillary when I rarely see a Hillary supporter? Do liberals not get online? Where are they? That's people in general. No one wants to be wrong once they've made their mind up about something. When I read news, I check the comments. Sometimes I skip the article and just read the comments. The comments are what validates the truthfulness of the news.
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    I wouldn't say they are all unfounded. A lot of people don't like her because she's a Clinton. You have to figure Baby Boomers were in their prime with Bill and he made Rush Limbaugh popular. A lot of people are unhappy with career-politicians and none more epitomizes that than a Clinton. Putin will have leverage on Trump? What would Putin make Trump do? With friendship comes leverage. If you and I decide to go fishing, there's no doubt I could influence where we fish. But so what? If we're friends, all we really wanna do is fish and have fun. How many guys sit in boats together and manage not to throw the other guy overboard? I guess I'm saying I don't understand that the big deal is. Yeah, he's a narcissist. A little more than most presidents. I don't know much about the lawsuits. I'm sure he will step on toes. He's not going to use nukes. He's a narcissist, remember? How's he going to look good with the world in ashes? He's going to do the thing that he thinks will make him look like the best president ever. I have no idea. I was just being funny. Search for voter fraud and it's all jokes at the democrat's expense.
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    What's the ramifications of the russia thing? I kinda think Trump would have lost if it had been anybody but Hillary.
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    Bucket? Oh you mean boxtruck. Dang autocorrect
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    Are we sure they counted all the deceased votes? Just because someone dies is no reason to lose their right to vote.
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    Lucky for everyone but cnn Stephen Colbert is making a big splash as well In one of his videos he sincerely thanked Trump for the easy material. It's gonna be YUGE! Bigly style!
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    Yeah, we shouldn't miss such a golden opportunity for a steady-stream of comedy by the whiz himself
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    I'm not sure the majority have spoken. The popular vote looks like 47% for Trump and 48% for Clinton (about 200k difference). Plus, probably lots of minorities couldn't find the motivation to vote or weren't allowed to vote. There are more registered Dems than republicans. I think the Trump supporters were more determined to vote than Hillary supporters.

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