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JUST WHEN WE thought the US presidential election race couldn’t get anymore unpredictable, an independent candidate is throwing his hat in the ring.
Former CIA counter-terrorism agent, Evan McMullin officially launched his White House bid today.
“It’s never too late to do the right thing, and America deserves much better than either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton can offer us,” McMullin said on his Facebook page.
The 40-year-old McMullin’s entrance in the race highlights how the “Never Trump” movement is still actively seeking to upend Trump’s candidacy less than three months before the election.
The Republican Party’s official presidential nominee has endured a turbulent two weeks in which he suffered many self-inflicted wounds, with increasing numbers of Republicans expressing concerns about Trump’s capacity to run the country or voicing outright support for rival Clinton.
New leadership
“In a year where Americans have lost faith in the candidates of both major parties, it’s time for a generation of new leadership to step up,” McMullin said.
“I humbly offer myself as a leader who can give millions of disaffected Americans a better choice for president.”
McMullin’s road will be extremely difficult. The deadlines to get on the ballots in several of the 50 US states has already past, he has zero national name recognition. Previous “Never Trump” efforts to install a counter-candidate to Trump never got off the ground.
A former House Republican aide, McMullin has been an occasional if fierce Trump critic on social media, calling him an “authoritarian” last month on Twitter.
Conservative group Better For America, which opposes a Trump presidency, is backing McMullin’s candidacy, according to ABC News.
But as a non-profit “social welfare” group it is not allowed to officially endorse a presidential bid.
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Its all about getting people hooked into one of the most intrusive operating systems that ever came out of Microsoft and it certainly ties in with TTIP and the recently passed CISA Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.
There is no such thing as a free lunch and more so from Bill Gates.
Microsoft are really pushing this. Annoying pop ups throughout the day offering free ‘upgrade’.
Anyone I’ve spoken to about Windows 10 tell me ‘don’t get it – it’s crap’.
Makes me suspicious when something is promoted to such an extent.
Time will tell.
I have it and I find it completely fine. there are some privacy steps that are easily applied and after that I’m completely comfortable with it.
Not crap but far from perfect yet. Using it daily for work and is mainly fine. Some extremely basic issues such as sees an SD card, asks if you want to import photos, say yes and it asks from where as Photos can’t see it. You can still copy and paste them but it’s very strange. HyperV services need restarting every morning after a clean reboot. These are minor and I am sure will get resolved soon enough.
Microsoft needs to get people off old versions as otherwise advertising all manner of security enhancements and features is pointless when all versions are lumped under the same title of Windows and they get slagged every time someone finds some issue in XP etc
Tommy , you can turn off the reminder pop-ups by uninstalling update # KB3035583.
My son upgraded my Windows 7 to 10 on the laptop (admittedly about 3 years old) and managed to delete the roll back option too. It was so slow I gave up and wiped it and put Linux on. Much faster and seemingly more stable too.
Well i love Windows 10, I’ve used all versions, if you are unhappy with he data they take here are a few solutions. http://bgr.com/2015/08/14/windows-10-spying-prevention-privacy-tools/
What ever you can do about stopping Microsoft from spying on you, Google already knows unless you change your browser.
There some serious bugs still. One is the “Fatal_power_error” which crashes systems. Apparently a hibernation issue that kicks in.
Installed it but forced to go back to Win7 on a dual boot as default system.
Hopefully the expected November major update can help resolve some of these issues.
Wins 10 does still have some issues that need to be addressed, normal or new users will or may find it difficult to navigate around. As for the upgrades for users that have older PC’s/Laptops they may have issues finding drivers that support Wins 10, so sound cards, VGA drivers etc are but just 2.
For these users if they have wins 7 are are looking for the chance to try something new/stable and Free try Linux Mint http://www.linuxmint.com/start/rafaela/ this has a wins feel about it and the user does not have to be totally savvy to use it.
This distro (linux Mint) allows to create a dual boot when installing it so you can still have your wins 7 and you can choose which operating system (OS) you wish to boot into at startup.
It installs almost all the drivers required on both new and older machines, installing software is very easy and best of all 99% of the software is Free.
There always a Linux troll lurking around.
It is so slow with Chrome or Mozilla and I am certain that is deliberate to make you use the Windows search engine. I could not accept that on rain opal, but hey, who am I , you are very odd these days if you are a sheep !
it also can ruin your hard drive when downloaded. mine corrupted within hours after installing, almost €200 for a new one
Still awaiting it even though I requested it back in July!!
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