The arc of the political universe is long, but it bends towards monetary policy.Nations rise and fall at the whims of the Federal Reserve. A good read.
That's the boring truth that nobody wants to hear. Forget about the gaffes, the horserace, and even the personalities. Elections are about the economy, stupid, and the economy is mostly controlled by monetary policy. That's why every big ideological turning point—1896, 1920, 1932, 1980, and maybe 2008—has come after a big monetary shock.
Like you, I have never become comfortable with absolute positioning. That being said, absolute positioning has found its place on the web and I use it from time to time to achieve things that would otherwise be hard, if not impossible, to encode.
In 2011, seeing that many apps used pages (and not scrollbars) to create compelling presentations, I started advocating for web pages to become real pages. The idea is that the style sheet would trigger paged mode so that content is split into pages. Users would navigate from one page to the next with gestures, or perhaps with PageUp and PageDown. I want it to be possible, even easy, to create ebook-readers in browsers. For this to happen, a bit of magic would be helpful. Could you sprinkle some fairy dust on the pillows of all browser vendors, please?
Yes, pre-processors make a lot of sense. ...My own favorites would be nested selectors, and single-line comments (starting with //). When CSS turns 50 I’ll tell you why they were not part of CSS from the beginning.
In the past, adding support for a new specification required you to convince all browser makers to devote precious developer time. This raised the bar, perhaps uncomfortably high. These days, it’s possible to extend browsers by way of JavaScript libraries. This makes it easier to experiment and perform some of the research style sheets deserve.
That said, the iOS keyboard has always presented its key caps in upper case. This is actually a problem for younger users who, for starters, don’t know any letters at all but, secondly, they’re always introduced to lower-case letters first. I hope some enterprising developer will build a lower-case keyboard for schools. Just don’t set the caps in Comic Sans, OK?I've never considered this barrier before. It's interesting because it seems like something that would be super-easy for Apple to solve even without offering entirely custom keyboards.
If the first Hobbit film was hampered by a treacherously slow introduction as the dwarves wooed Bilbo, here Jackson jumps right into the action — and make no mistake, this is an action movie above all else. The battles are visceral and physical, Jackson’s horror roots shining through in the movie’s fondness for decapitations, and while there’s no mistaking the aid of computer-generated imagery, the polish is so high it all comes together in a delirious frenzy.Peter Jackson does not understand The Hobbit
So yes, marriage will change. Or rather, it will change again. The fact is, there is no such thing as traditional marriage. In various places and at various points in human history, marriage has been a means by which young children were betrothed, uniting royal houses and sealing alliances between nations. In the Bible, it was a union that sometimes took place between a man and his dead brother’s widow, or between one man and several wives. It has been a vehicle for the orderly transfer of property from one generation of males to the next; the test by which children were deemed legitimate or bastard; a privilege not available to black Americans; something parents arranged for their adult children; a contract under which women, legally, ceased to exist. Well into the 19th century, the British common-law concept of “unity of person” meant a woman became her husband when she married, giving up her legal standing and the right to own property or control her own wages.
Many of these strictures have already loosened. Child marriage is today seen by most people as the human-rights violation that it is. The Married Women’s Property Acts guaranteed that a woman could get married and remain a legally recognized human being. The Supreme Court’s decision in Loving v. Virginia did away with state bans on interracial marriage. By making it easier to dissolve marriage, no-fault divorce helped ensure that unions need not be lifelong. The recent surge in single parenthood, combined with an aging population, has unyoked marriage and child-rearing. History shows that marriage evolves over time. We have every reason to believe that same-sex marriage will contribute to its continued evolution.