Microsoft makes is money by selling products and services. Your data is not nearly as valuable as you think it is.

That’s not how it works. Microsoft knows Windows will be used in medical settings. They know “but it’s a product for home users” won’t be an effective defense if they cause a HIPAA violation.

I’d be really surprised if it took as long as ten minutes.

Even a lot of young people are simply unwilling to learn something different if there’s any way to avoid it. Your grandmother is not at all typical.

LOL. You really think Microsoft doesn’t have an army of lawyers ensuring they comply with laws like HIPAA?

Do you by any chance take a lot of photos on a phone that doesn’t have the capacity to store them all locally?

Yawn. Yelling at people to just use Linux is ineffective and it comes across as really condescending. It also does nothing to address the issue if how disruptive it is to switch operating systems, especially for less technical users.

I was just looking at her current age. Anyway, she’s not a candidate with a broad appeal. A lot of more mainstream Democrats like my dad hate her.

AOC is still a hair to young to be eligible, but I would gladly take Jay Inslee, Gavin Newsom, or Beto O’Rourke. Hell, at this point I’d settle for Florida Man Jeb Bush if that’s what it takes to get swing voters on board.

(People like to shit in Beto, but he almost won Texas, which is more than any recent Democratic presidential nominee can say.)

You either die a hero or you live long enough to become the villain.

Sounds like something a Palestinian would say! /s

The strongest argument I’ve heard against changing is that Ohio requires a candidate to be registered before the Democratic convention. Fucking Ohio. Who let them be a swing state?

Gender? In this economy?

I wouldn’t base it on lifespan because keeping people alive longer doesn’t necessarily require them to be able to work longer.

Have fun playing fascist roulette, then. That’s what’s happening whether we want it or not.

I said nothing about conspiring. I was thinking of how a swing of a few percent of voters in many systems can be all it takes to swing the outcome between different extremes of policy and ideology. No system with that property can reliably represent the will of the people, because whatever the overall will is, the system will routinely fail to represent it. People elected to nationwide offices should be boring centrists pretty much 100% of the time because most countries have little ideological consistency in their populations and they should never have a national leader who antagonizes a large portion of the population.

I’m glad they’re pulling ahead, but I can’t help thinking that any electoral system that’s capable of producing a surprising outcome is fundamentally broken, because it means that a handful of people have a huge impact on the final outcome.

A great deal of our system of government is undemocratic. In particular, the difficulty of getting incumbents out of office is undemocratic, and term limits directly address that problem. Even if they’re undemocratic in a vacuum, they enhance democracy in practice.

I see the competition to be first against the wall is heating up.