Very noob question here, but how would one save this as a gif?
Sorry for being off topic, just curious.
President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016
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Re: President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016
#82I hope Donald will stay at home. Every presidential visit brings multi-million city to a halt. It has similar effect as an earthquake, major fire or other natural disaster. It is recommended not open windows, there is risk of snipers. International airport is closed for several hours for a single airplane. And main roads are closed everyday while president is traveling. I still remember New Orleans. People could not…
Westside traffic was often brought to a halt when Obama came to Los Angeles because he tended to visit some extremely wealthy entertainment figure's home (in Bel Air or Beverly Hills or Holmby Hills etc) in order to participate in a fund raiser. It got to the point where a lot of LA commuters, who overwhelmingly supported Obama, would wince when they learned the presidential motorcade would be gumming up the traffic.…
It shouldn't matter if you support the person politically or not; their visit is a hassle, and it's not like the visit does anything for you personally.
Also, with roads near capacity, it doesn't take much to make it an utter mess. Even a few minutes' closure will have knock-on effects until well after rush hour.
Re: President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps, as with the US you retain the honorific title 'President' even after leaving office.
Actually, you don't. Former Presidents are just addressed as "Mr Obama". http://emilypost.com/advice/addressing-a-former-president-of...
I'm not convinced. Multiple other sources say you retain the title for life and also recommend addressing the person as such. Obviously it's a matter of etiquette and not right or wrong, though.
Re: President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016
#84Here's another nifty visualisation - this time with drone strikes: http://drones.pitchinteractive.com/
The statement that only 2% are high profile targets is kind of misleading. The vetting that goes into assessing whether military age males are actually doing bad things is surprisingly high. I am not saying mistakes were not made. Civilians and kids have died for sure, but the majority of those killed were combatants. Implying otherwise makes me doubt the veracity of the other claims here. Nifty visualization though.
The leaked documents and statements from the military explicitly contradicts any claims of assessing whether military age males are actually a combatant. The leaked documents wrote that any male casualties between 18-49 were automatically classified as militants.
And I personally suspect that the age verification is beyond anything scientific.
Re: President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016
#85I hope Donald will stay at home. Every presidential visit brings multi-million city to a halt. It has similar effect as an earthquake, major fire or other natural disaster. It is recommended not open windows, there is risk of snipers. International airport is closed for several hours for a single airplane. And main roads are closed everyday while president is traveling. I still remember New Orleans. People could not…
obama caused that to LA almost montly when raising funds for re-election.
Re: President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016
#86I hope Donald will stay at home. Every presidential visit brings multi-million city to a halt. It has similar effect as an earthquake, major fire or other natural disaster. It is recommended not open windows, there is risk of snipers. International airport is closed for several hours for a single airplane. And main roads are closed everyday while president is traveling. I still remember New Orleans. People could not…
I agree with the fact that the President should probably not visit foreign cities unless absolutely necessary. In our case, President Obama (and I am a full supporter of his) visited our little town here in Australia (pop: ~100,000) back in 2011 to meet with our Prime Minister to ratify a deal to station about 10,000 US Marines in our town. He was on the ground here for about 6 hours. For the whole day (and most of t…
i highly doubt that was the reason. remember that obama magnus opus was copyright enforcement and trade deals with southeast asia. Australia and New Zealand were pivotal for this effort. see TPP and kim dot com being arrested the next year of his visit.
Re: President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
With so many people around the world needing killing, we should be thankful that Obama was in office. If a Republican was in power, the casualties would have been much worse, probably over ten times!!
Except, for the parts of the timeline when there was a Republican in power, the casualties (and drone strikes) were significantly less.
This comment is so incredibly misleading. Predator drones were new in 2001. The idea that it makes sense to directly compare drone use in the Bush administration to drone usage in the Obama administration is just wrong.
Furthermore, I never really understood why people focus on drones as particularly egregious. Drones are significantly more accurate than cruise missiles and airstrikes because they can get closer to targets.
If you want to question the whole "deliver ordinance to places in which intel suggests there may be 'enemy combatants'" then I'm with you. But that criticism is totally separate from how the ordinance is delivered.
Re: President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
This map uses arcgis jsapi 3.19, compare to leaflet js, it is quite heavy and demanding for low-end pc or mobile. jsapi 4.x is more lightweight though.
I have a high end PC, but Firefox is... what it is ;P
firefox is awesome but it allows you to screw up. you are probably running a bad extension that makes it that slow. if you have ad blocker, make sure it is ublock origin.
also, it is the only browser that allows extensions on mobile.
Re: President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016
#89Chelsea Manning might be less free.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13408852 and marked it off-topic.
Re: President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Accurate how? At the time Medvedev was President of Russia, and Putin was Prime Minister. Since he was President before that, it's ok for him to be referred as President, like any former President of country.
The convention of referring to an ex president as President is peculiar to United States presidents, AFAIK.
It’s also done in France.