And, your Google Maps are wrong.
It's not even a 6km drive from one city center to the other (3.7 miles). The difference from one city edge to the other is only a few hundred feet.
Edit: And how does this pertain to gadgets? Even the articles I posted above originated from Gawker.
It can be understood as any political discourse that appeals to the general mass of the population, to the "people" as such, regardless of class distinctions and political partisanship: "a folksy appeal to the 'average guy' or some allegedly general will."This is in opposition to statism, which holds that a small group of professional politicians know better than the people of a state and should make decisions on behalf of them.
Notice I didn't pull the excerpt from the page about the Populist Party. However, a core tenet of the Populist Party is the appeal to the common man, which in most cases is the majority of the population, hence, their appeal is generally more popular.
It is the same say saying that someone believes in the ideals of a democracy (philosophy) but that does not necessarily make them a democrat (political party). Yes, the populist party carries ideals of populism, or the appeal to the general populous (the appeal to what is popular), but populist sentiment doesn't necessarily have to reflect populist ideals (the party), hence my slavery example. Yes, I am using the terms popular and populist in similar ways because by definition populist sentiment would inherently be a part of what is popular. But to be frank, the Populist Party did not exist during slavery ;) so of course slavery wouldn't be an ideal of the Populist Party, both historically and ideologically.
I am talking about populism as in the appeal or will of the populous, and, in this case, populist rage (in the case of Anon), not populism as defined by William Jennings Bryan and the Populist Party. I think that is what Sam was doing as well (referring to populist as an adjective and not Populist part ideals.
And Anon has inconvenienced and hurt a lot of innocent people who are just collateral damage in their design to get lulz. For every tyrannical sheriff you try to take down you also release personal, private information about law-abiding officers. For every financial site you take down, you put at an inconvenience every single person that uses that financial site, even if it is a grandmother who is trying to use paypal to buy a gift for their grandkid. These people don't care about collateral damage.
*ba dum tssssssss*
I groan in pain when I take my laptop somewhere and forget my mouse, if simply because it is so much easier and ergonomic than to sit there pecking at a touchpad.
Once again, the difference in what you see the need for your technology (which is basically just entertainment and consumption) is different than those who need technology to do graphical or technical tasks that require precision and efficiency.