Speeding tickets are also people who were caught committing a crime.
Regardless, it is a new policy to put Adults who cross with children (even though many of these Adults are the parents of those children) into jail.
I for one, believe that there are more humane ways to treat boarder-crossers who are crossing with their family. Sure, maybe put the lone crossers into jail, but if they're coming over with kids, then I'd hope that the judges / immigration agents / etc. etc. have power to show compassion in those cases.
So yeah, put some of them in jail, and put others into other forms of detention that don't necessarily involve separating kids from their parents. And yes, I recognize that Coyotes exist (professional illegal boarder crossers who specialize in trafficking children into America), so I recognize that ICE has a hard job here. But a repeat-offender like a Coyote could be caught on the 2nd or 3rd attempt. I recognize that ICE needs a plan to deal with Coyotes appropriately, and that not every adult-with-children is necessarily the parent.
There's a lot of ways to deal with the problem, and its sad that the current administration thinks that separating families is the best way forward.
If separations are to happen, I want it to happen only to Coyotes and the children they're smuggling. We need to be careful to keep the real parents together with their real children.
It's not as black and white as you make it seem. Being in the country unlawfully is not a crime, it's a civil infraction. Entering unlawfully (through something other than a border) is a crime, when it happens, but the subsequent stay is once again a civil infraction.
Most unlawful residents did not enter unlawfully, they overstayed on visas or in some other way went from a legal stay to an unlawful one. These people would not be committing a crime.
Interestingly, andun is a new account and seems to be a holocaust denier, based on at least one of their other comments ("purported holocaust death camps").
My theory on this is becoming - because the nerds that would care all work for the Big Five and as such think it's ok because "we're not evil". Once that crowd gets quieted then there's no on to raise the flags for others.
People care, but those who do are not working on them and their voices get drowned out by the "push the web forward"/"progress is always good" crowd. I suppose there is a bit of cognitive dissonance among developers of such things too.
Well actually, current developed countries owe developing countries for not paying for the externalities (pollution primarily) now causing climate change that were not paid for by the developed countries while they became developed.
That's a purely economic argument and leaves out the exploitation of developing countries by government supported corporate entities over the entire period of colonization.
So actually, you're right, they "don't owe [them] shit." What they owe them is getting rid of the shit that was created in the first place.
Pretty sure like 0.001% of those accounts did that. But it's a good excuse, granted.
I think the real reason they got banned is that under every tweet of every blue-checkmark liberal on Twitter you'd find dozens of replies of accounts called NPC209834029 with the same avatar nodding and saying the same platitudes. But of course, when all the replies to all Trump tweets are from blue-checkmarks shitting on him, Twitter doesn't seem to care. :P I think neither should be banned, but I guess they know better.
This is a fundamental problem with web design at the moment. Every designer puts their awesome looking font in, but ultimately the web browser renders what it wants, and to get a good pagespeed score you need to render local fonts.
It ends up being a trade off between performance and UI. But why can't we have both? Why can't the user say "always use x and y fonts because I know best" and give the designer the opportunity to put the fonts they want in without impacting performance.
Browsers should include popular fonts. Currently there are not enough good cross-platform fonts, that's why designers want custom fonts. Or something should be done for better caching of custom fonts, so if you've used your browser for few weeks, you won't have to load any custom font ever, because they are already cached.
Users can do that, and it is [still!] a first class (ie. not hidden in about:config, but available in preferences) configuration option in Firefox.
Part of a web design job should be testing your creation under different user selectable options. Like zoom, font selection, screens of various quality, etc. But most designers still treat web browsers, like it's a piece of paper they're in complete control over.
It would be great if the system's default choices were something more reasonable than what some random Netscape engineer decided circa 1995. The user's choices? I'm sure there are dozens of users on the net who have customized their browser's default styles.
Yes, we should absolutely respect the settings in the "typography" preference pane that all browsers have, where all users lovingly set their preferred text spacing, indentation, and justification. Oh wait! There isn't one. In fact, most users not only haven't explicitly made these choices, they can't explicitly make these choices. Are you arguing that the "system's choices" are some bastion of well-considered design sensibility that we violate at our peril? Really? Nuts to that.
As much right as you have to read content as you wish, the publisher has to present it as she wishes.
This is a guide for people who want to make use of thousands of years of accrued typographic culture to get their message across usefully and beautifully.
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Well, perhaps a thousand or so years. I'm unsure how deep into Roman times good 'type' style lettering stretches.
It's easy to disable loading of custom fonts in the browser and set default font to what you want. The only thing I'm missing is browser option for minimal strength of small text, because some designers just don't think about people and combine weight:200 with color:#444 or whatever for body text.
I block fonts with uBlock and see this all the time. Usually the icons are pointless and I don't miss them. In bad cases I'll toggle fonts on and reload the page.
