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WE ARE MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Delivering HISTORIC TAX RELIEF for the American people with the magnificent #TaxCutsandJobsAct. 💸

But a moderator, or a small group of moderators, hates it. And administrators are letting mod-bombs stand. Letting another very unfair Spam mod stand. To silence my message. I'm sure they have passion for our great country. But they're being HATERS & LOSERS. They could become WINNERS like me. But they want to silence my terrific message instead. To make it so I can only tweet once a day, like they did to fakefuck39. Whose tweets start out with a very low Score. Making them hard to see. Hard to read. Very sad!

Let me tell you, this is a great, and VERY SPECIAL, moment for our great Country. The RIGHT TIME. Time to take care of our people, to rebuild our nation, and to fight for our great American workers. It's a whole different attitude, whole different way. We can all come together and be proud! We will all succeed & grow together as ONE TEAM, ONE PEOPLE, ONE FAMILY. With one leader. I made a promise to the American people: eventually, we will get something done. And WE GOT SOMETHING DONE, it's beautiful. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing. Our team will go onto many more VICTORIES! Because President Obama did such a poor job as president, you won’t see another black president for generations! pic.twitter.com/lLgATrCh5o pic.twitter.com/HY353gXV0R

I can't identify a single music player for Linux that I like. Literally. The best solution I can come up with so far is using foobar2000 under Wine. I actually rather like foobar2000 and would be extremely happy if it supported Linux natively but I don't think that is going to happen. I just haven't been able to find any equivalent open source program that stacks up.

Luckily foobar2000 runs fairly well under the development version of Wine. Ever since I moved to Debian Stretch foobar2000 has been properly interfacing with the system wide audio mixer/configuration which is really nice. I have not suffered from any UI glitches so far and I've been running this configuration for a few years now.

The thing I like the least about foobar2000 under Wine is that the configuration option to prevent the screen from sleeping when audio is playing does not function. This feature does function just fine under Windows so I suspect this is just unimplemented in Wine. This is a problem for me because I use one of the HDMI ports on my video card to interface with my entertainment system. Coupled with the fact that my workstation is the primary source for audio only content with my entertainment system this stinks. The workaround I use is to set the screen to sleep after 2 hours and to bump the mouse throughout the day. I would like this feature so much there's a good chance I'll elect to implement the screen sleep inhibit in Wine, eventually.

If my machine is under a lot of load I might get some audio drop outs from foobar2000 though this is quite rare. When I originally tried running foobar2000 under Wine I had a lot of audio dropout issues. There were so many dropouts that I didn't think using it was going to be viable. When I decided to use the development version of Wine instead of the stable version 95% of the dropouts went away which encouraged me to stick with it. Over time the dropouts became even less frequent to the point that I can't think of the last time it happened.

Why do I like foobar2000 so much? Because it is very simple and very good at what it does: playing music and organizing a library and play list. It's also quite configurable and flexible and while it looks primitive it is not short on features. The project has been around since the end of 2002 but is still actively maintained so it is quite mature at this point.

Do you have a favored audio player that excels at play list management and library viewing? If anyone has suggestions on things to try I'm all ears: please leave a comment. Here's what I've tried so far not including random packages I tried out that I can't recall:

• Amarok - Poor library viewing. Crap useless features enabled by default.
• mpd - I'm not against the concept but I haven't found a front end I care for.
• VLC - This is all right but foobar2000 does better.

Cheers!

When Cosplay Crosses the Line

And in other Indonesian news:

Gay Crackdown Continues in Indonesia Despite Court Ruling
Indonesia court jails men for two years over 'gay sex party'

Australian, American, Malaysian arrested in Indonesia's Bali for drugs

Vigilantes Stalk Indonesian Transgender Women

Indonesia is the world's 4th most populous country, behind the United States.

It approves 4,000 jobs in Guam, for our H-2B workers to build tremendous, and much needed missile defense capabilities there. With $355 million to make our military INFRASTRUCTURE PERFECTO as we continue our campaign to create maximum pressure on the vile dictatorship in North Korea -- Little Rocket Man. 🚀 It upgrades our ground combat vehicles, allows for the purchase of new Joint Strike Fighter ✈ aircraft, and paves the way for beautiful, beautiful new Virginia Class submarines, the finest in the world. The NDAA increases the size of the American armed forces for the first time in seven years and it provides our military service members with their largest pay increase in eight years. 💰

Holiday Parties Gone Wrong: Careful Where You Hang The Mistletoe

*Holiday Party #WarOnChristmas

Went to McDonald's for lunch today (shopping at WallyWorld) and waited FOREVER!

It's not like they were that busy; they could take your money faster than anything. But then you waited...and waited...and waited.

I believe it is all to try to force people onto their app and kiosk: order it and it will be ready ahead of time: meanwhile, we'll lay off more people! Yay, we win!

My wife doesn't like the 'order kiosk': she doesn't like it taking away jobs, and I don't like the app idea (or McDonald's period). Even as a person of autism who doesn't care for interacting with people, I prefer talking to a person ( I can then hold THEM responsible for a screwup, lol).

We finally get our food and the order is wrong, so we have to go back up and get it done again.
Meanwhile, people have had their money taken from them quickly and are lining up to get their food and the line just keeps getting longer and longer and people are waiting longer and longer....

(I prefer A&W: better food, great rootbeer, much better fries.)

So my guess is that McDonald's is willing to take a short term kick up the ass and make their customers wait longer and longer in order to make them order THEIR way.
Me, I'd just rather wait at A&W.

Isn't it fantastic that lightweight Senator Bob Corker, who helped President Obama give us the bad Iran Deal & couldn't get elected dog catcher in the Great State of Tennessee, is now on board with Tax Cuts! And so is Little Marco Rubio. So happy to hear that! It's FULL STEAM AHEAD for Tax Cuts & Jobs. Give me goddamned steam! Flaky Flake, get on. Chuck & Nancy, if you're reading this -- I think you're reading this -- I saved your seats. Don't let the Trump Train leave Tax Cut Junction without you......Goofy Elizabeth Warren, you too, let's see Pocahontas make peace with Big White Man Chief......bing bing, bong bong, bing bing bing.......You Dems have donors too. 🚂

Previously: Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out

Palihapitiya's initial remarks included the statement that Facebook "overwhelmingly does good in the world". Maybe that wasn't good enough for somezucky?

Former Facebook Exec Who Suggested Social Media Was Destroying Society: I Love Facebook

He's already rich. He can feed his kids. But can he protect them from the reach of Facebook?

Our thoughts and prayers are with Rebecca Johnson, brave widow of Dan Johnson, a true patriot & friend of Kentucky. Another victim of the purposely false and defamatory stories FABRICATED & put out by the Fake News Media. They are out of control - correct reporting means nothing to them. Major lies written, then forced to be withdrawn after they are exposed...a stain on America! They should be ashamed. "His fight will go on." We are with you! fxn.ws/2AmL7yI

Thank you, Omarosa, for your service. To The Apprentice, Celebrity Apprentice, Donald J. Trump Presents the Ultimate Merger, and least of all, the White House. Good luck, and maybe, probably, we will make great television together again. #TrumpTV