Donald Trump

Tiki said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

Tiki said:

Nice to see I'm not the only one still using Winamp. I use the old-school skin though. All these years later, it still whips the llama's ass. 

Ledbetterman10 said:

mrussel1 said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

Tiki said:

Nice to see I'm not the only one still using Winamp. I use the old-school skin though. All these years later, it still whips the llama's ass. 

Ha, I used to love Winamp.  Although I'm a huge supporter of JRiver Media now.  It's a great media organizer and generic DLNA server.  Winamp was the best for years but the lack of support now and DLNA makes it too obsolete.  

Yeah surprisingly, despite the lack of support, it gets done all I need to. No problems with making playlists or anything like that. And I run a PJ bootleg blog (http://wegotshit.blogspot.com) and still use Winamp to change tags and do whatever else I need to do. It's funny though, I had a friend over a few weeks ago and when he saw that I had the old black and green winamp skin opened on my computer, he's like "Dude...winamp? Do you still use AOL too?"

Ledbetterman10 said:

mrussel1 said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

mrussel1 said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

Tiki said:

Nice to see I'm not the only one still using Winamp. I use the old-school skin though. All these years later, it still whips the llama's ass. 

Ha, I used to love Winamp.  Although I'm a huge supporter of JRiver Media now.  It's a great media organizer and generic DLNA server.  Winamp was the best for years but the lack of support now and DLNA makes it too obsolete.  

Yeah surprisingly, despite the lack of support, it gets done all I need to. No problems with making playlists or anything like that. And I run a PJ bootleg blog (http://wegotshit.blogspot.com) and still use Winamp to change tags and do whatever else I need to do. It's funny though, I had a friend over a few weeks ago and when he saw that I had the old black and green winamp skin opened on my computer, he's like "Dude...winamp? Do you still use AOL too?"

well there aren't many choices, honestly.  You have Winamp, JRiver, maybe the monkey site and Foobar.  You can't use VLC because that's unusable for audio, IMO.  And sure as hell can't use Itunes because that's the bane of all things righteous. For your application, I think it makes perfect sense.  And I am familiar with your boot site, I've referenced it from time to time when working on a video project.  It's nicely done and a good resource.  

Thanks. I've kind of run out of things to post so now it's just a matter of keeping all the links active so it can be a resource for anyone looking for pre-2000 bootlegs and some compilations. 

You're absolutely right about VLC. I only use that for videos. And iTunes is the worst. I use an application called CopyTrans for adding and removing songs from my iPhone, and backing up my phone. It works great. 

Ledbetterman10 said:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1110714893039267840

He may be a crooked demagogue, but he can be funny sometimes.  Referring to himself as "Your all time favorite duly elected President, me!" is master-level trolling of the people that get triggered by him. 

josevolution said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1110714893039267840

He may be a crooked demagogue, but he can be funny sometimes.  Referring to himself as "Your all time favorite duly elected President, me!" is master-level trolling of the people that get triggered by him. 

Funny really i don’t find anything funny about a vile human , I mean he’s not a good guy right ? 

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Meltdown99 said:

House vote to stop Trump's border plan unlikely to succeed

https://apple.news/AHR4unoRIRBK8OlJ0kNvyMg

Hell yeah-  saw that the pentagon released 1 billion and they’re building 57 miles of it near Yuma and El Paso.  Good stuff.  The media was focused on the mueller waste of time but 5000 illegal immigrants were stopped this past weekend alone. It’s out of control.  In San Antonio ice just drops off these people at these bus stops after they’ve been detained near churches and they can’t feed or clothe them because they’re out of supplies and overflowing with people.  The diseases are worrisome as very few of them are vaccinated at all.

Don't forget that the number of undocumented immigrants that ICE detains doesn't correlate with the number of undocumented immigrants coming into the US at any given time - it only correlates with the amount of energy they've been instructed to spend to detain persons. If Trump had said "ease back a bit", they'd have picked up less than 5000. What you're seeing does not mean a problem is getting worse - it means your President is tolerating less.

I'm not opposed to building the wall from a moral perspective - a country truly is entitled to fortify its borders if it chooses - but I find it short-sighted, and unnecessary (along with the things that come with it - the perceived cruelty, the real divide, the logistical challenges with a major trade partner, the increase in processing needs per border crossing and thus potential for bottleneck, and the cost of the thing, for no truly indicated or expected results).

I also think from a purely economic perspective, it's been understood for some time now that the jobs occupied by undocumented immigrants have effectively established a new market value for that labour, because they take the work that US citizens never wanted, and do it at a price US citizens deem beneath them. This means that if that influx disappears, businesses have to bear a newly increased cost for the labour. Businesses don't typically accept increased costs for labour - instead, they hire less, ask more of current employees, and have clients subsidize these realities with increased prices.

Putting all of these together, I think it's likely that the lasting legacy of a wall will be exploitation of the Mexican government (just like applying sanctions, it's another great way to restrict a country's global power while exerting your own, and gain trade negotiating leverage), the de-weaving of the social fabric with respect to US-Mexican cultural exchanges, security risks (when you threaten an entire neighbouring country's livelihood and escape route to safety, you should expect this), a less powerful internal economy where businesses act more frugally (as discussed above), a more expensive life with respect to consumer products, busier borders making trade more difficult.

Like I said, morally, if Trump wants to do this, he can, but he should know that he will own the costs and not just the benefits he perceives of this. You should know the costs too - and you should be concerned (whether you want this or not) that Trump doesn't want to talk about them.

You know, I (and many others) have been beating this drum for the longest time that wall proponents simply don't get: the effect this will have on the economy as a whole and their own wallets, specifically. 

-illegal immigrants are working in fields and construction sites for pennies on the dollar
-americans make more than those wages on welfare

They are not taking your jobs. americans are giving them to them. 
costs will inevitably increase substantially, and then all the wall bangers will be pissing and moaning about paying $3 an apple and thousands more for renos on their house. 

these issues don't matter to the people on the Hill. they can afford these increases. they are using your own fear and racist tendencies against what's actually best for you. 

You guys are both correct, I’m sure.  I am for obeying the law, though, and illegal is illegal.  If they go through the system then I have no problem with it at all.  It’s not the people I have a problem with, it’s the fact that it’s not lawful.  I’ve said it before, but even my employees who are from Mexico (some on visas and some are citizens) are against it because they did it lawfully.  They don’t like the fact that  some get to break the rules while they followed them.  It has nothing to do with race for me, I don’t care if they’re from Sweden or Russia or China or Mars, we just don’t have a problemhappening on any of our other borders, just the one with Mexico.

as for the economics, I defer to the pros on that- I’m not bothered if I have to spend more money because we enforce our laws.  That’s the way it is and we’ll change our spending habits to adapt.  Here in austin the construction guys are creating chaos because the city is growing so big- so
many undocumented guys are just leaving one site for another that will pay more in cash per day (in the middle of their shift no less,) that it’s delaying construction projects by months in some cases.  You’re right, they’re the ones who want those jobs.  I think if they were legal they’d still want those jobs though, so I’m not sure I fully get the argument that there would be no one to
fill certain jobs.  There would be, they’d just be legal

just don’t get why following laws makes people so uncomfortable 

We absolutely have a problem on the "other borders".
Tens of thousands of people come in via airports all over the country every day and overstay their visas by years and decades. But the right doesn't care  about them for 2 main reasons....
1. They tend to be caucasian
2. The right (politicians and right  wing media)is stoking fears about the southern border.

And just to be clear....as a leftist socialist liberal Democrat I want people to follow the rule of law and do things legally and safely. I, and most like me do not want, and have never called for, open borders.

There is no more "southern border invasion " now then there was 5 or 10 or 25 years ago.
Just people trying to stoke fear and garner votes.