Wow, Trump is making ZTE buy US parts? The same parts they were banned from buying, which rendered them unable to operate? He really is quite a deal maker.

How can any report of this not include the fact that the Chinese government recently funded a Trump aligned development in Asia?

His family’s brands and economic interest in China.

You only need money to buy this asshole.

Yeah, what service would substitute for this? I thought the point of it was the server side curation. YouTube can’t be left alone to auto play in the background, and Vevo seemed pretty good at matching tastes.

Vevo is great for putting on mindless not really paying attention to it videos on your home theater system. Its great for the background. Plus I don’t even know if they have commercials because I never paid that much attention.

Many thanks to Vevo for putting high quality versions of some of my favorites videos on the you tube so I could rip them to my media server!

you are radically overestimating the power of low-wage workers in the market as currently constituted.

The thing is, last night wasn’t just an off night in the, like, doing-good-stuff-but-missing-shots sense. They completely reverted to how they played in Game 1 and for long dismal stretches of the regular season: four players standing still along the edges, watching Harden or Paul dribble the air out of the ball. That…

After Justice Scalia died during the Obama administration, the appointment should have been done by the sitting president. Mitch McConnell correctly read the way the election was going to go and delayed the hearing for a new justice for a year to get a replacement right leaning justice on the court.

You waive that right generally as part of the agreement.

Only if voters continue to be fucking idiots. The Supreme Court doesn’t make law, it interprets it. Don’t like a ruling they made? Make a new law.

It’s bad enough we have to live with Trump until the American people (or Congress) show him the door. But the fact that the GOP outright stole a seat on the Supreme Court is damage we’re going to have to live with for decades to come.

I did. I’ve also written a bunch of posts about the Rockets over the past few months, which I think track pretty well my growing dread and disgust at the basketball that has grown out of building an entire team and style of play out of the idea that it’s good to stand around and watch Harden (and Chris Paul) do this…

OTOH, most were well-contested by some of the best defenders in the NBA (Green, Iguodala, Klay). The Rockets missed a handful they 100% should’ve made; the rest were far from gimmes.

10 grand in 500k is fuck all in a big ship, and it gives some busy body assembly person a green boner. California has done worse for worse reasons.

I will root for Arsenal in a friendly against a team of terminally ill children before I root for the Celtics.

It’s weird that the whole season everyone’s been saying “The Rockets were built to destroy the Warriors,” and then they finally get their western conference matchup, and their big plan is... tire out Stephen Curry

This seems better than the Rockets’ other strategy of iso against Kevon Looney. That one doesn’t even make sense conceptually.