OS/2 (actually eCS+Arca Noae latest) will install and run on some modern hardware. Being 1990's tech it does have limits, needs to see a BIOS and only supports up to 2TB drives (plan is to split larger drives into virtual drives), no video acceleration, no USB3 currently, shitty wireless support, sound supported by an Alsa port, printing limited to CUPs, any memory over 3.5GBs only usable as a RAM disk, limit of 64 cores (only licensed for one physical CPU)
Who other than old people still listen to the radio, AM or otherwise?
People without high speed internet and no TV reception for a start. Occasionally I even listen to the AM traffic station, usually to find out why the traffic has stopped.
Where does the American Constitution say that the Constitution only applies to American citizens (not counting the political stuff like voting or occupying office)? Most of it refers to people.
Read your Constitution, specifically Article 5. Here it is,
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.[2]
So one way is for 2/3rds of a quorum (simple majority of members) of the House and Senate. The other way, in case Congress doesn't want to go along with the amendment, is for 2/3rds of the States to apply for a convention. Either way a super majority of States (3/4s) can amend the Constitution with the only exception being limiting a States equal representation in the Senate. The Supreme Court is supposed to follow the Constitution and an amendment could remove them and even declare "Dear Leader President for Life". America is an extreme case this way as almost anything goes if a large enough majority is in favour. Here in Canada, where it generally takes 7/10ths of the Provinces and those Provinces representing over 50% of the population to amend, the Constitution (1982) has limits on what can be easily amended including a small list of amendments that take 10/10ths of the Provinces and Parliament to pass. Things like removing the Queen, certain balances of the Senate and House of Commons, the Supreme Court and the amending formula. Now it is possible that a military coup would prevent a bad amendment going through and history has shown that the American Federal Government can use the military to force an amendment through by showing up at the State Legislature and threatening violence if the Legislature doesn't vote the right way.
You have to be careful as words do change their meanings, sometimes drastically, in the course of a few centuries. In the case of "is", the meaning seems to have been stable for the last 4+ centuries. Other words not so much, take the etymology od "nice",
late 13c., "foolish, stupid, senseless," from Old French nice (12c.) "careless, clumsy; weak; poor, needy; simple, stupid, silly, foolish," from Latin nescius "ignorant, unaware," literally "not-knowing," from ne- "not" (see un-) + stem of scire "to know" (see science). "The sense development has been extraordinary, even for an adj." [Weekley] -- from "timid" (pre-1300); to "fussy, fastidious" (late 14c.); to "dainty, delicate" (c. 1400); to "precise, careful" (1500s, preserved in such terms as a nice distinction and nice and early); to "agreeable, delightful" (1769); to "kind, thoughtful" (1830).
Read your Constitution, all it takes is 3/4ths of the States to amend it and those amendments can do anything including removing all the other amendments including first 10 that make up the Bill of Rights and the 13th, 14th and whichever other ones made slavery illegal. Once the Constitution has been changed, the Supreme Court has to make rulings in line with it. In a democracy all it takes is a strong enough majority to change things, 3/4s in the case of America I believe.
As soon as they bought something and looked at their change, consisting of loonies, toonies, no pennies and colourful plastic they'd know. The odd American might also notice that they got too much change back too.
Don't you Americans have a Constitution containing a Bill of Rights that includes a clause that allows the people Freedom of Speech? IIRC it basically says that Congress will not pass a law abridging speech and yet you get 5 insightful for thinking that someone exercising his 1st Amendment rights should got to jail, for a long time yet, for simply breaking a non-disclosure agreement. Or perhaps you think that your government should not have to obey the Constitution.
Should be They'll be a trade deal sooner or later to allow businesses to sue countries over privacy protection (and any other pesky laws that protect citizens). Can't have sovereign nations passing laws that are bad for business, especially businesses that pay lip service to pretending to be American.
He's going to fertilize the potatoes with vitamins? Plants, including potatoes, need NPK (nitrogen, potassium and phosphorous) as well as various micro-nutrients, all in a form that can be taken up by the plants. Whether human manure and piss would supply enough when starting with regolith I don't really know but doubt based on my gardening experience.
Look at the single thread score. Atom Z2795 = 480, 3GHz P4=652. 4 cores, faster memory, and probably better cache are what helps the Atom. It's still better then the P4 if running at the same clock but only by about a third.
MS OS/2 v1.3 is a bit of a collectors item as by then MS was moving away from OS/2 and most v1.3s were from IBM. And yes it had almost the same interface as Win (NT)3.x though you could have program group windows outside of program manager. OS/2 V3 (not OS/2 NT V3) ran fine on a 386 as long as you had the memory. I ran it with 4MBs and had to strip it down so it didn't thrash the swap file and later 8 MBs on the same 386/33. You really could format a floppy, play a video and do other stuff smoothly, at least as long as you didn't swap too much.
Windows 95 originally shipped without Internet Explorer, and the default network installation did not install TCP/IP, the network protocol used on the Internet. At the release date of Windows 95, Internet Explorer 1.0 was available, but only in the Plus! add-on pack for Windows 95, which was a separate product. The Plus! Pack did not reach as many retail consumers as the operating system itself (it was mainly advertised for its non-internet-related add-ons such as themes and better disk compression) but was usually included in pre-installed (OEM) sales, and at the time of Windows 95 release, the web was being browsed mainly with a variety of early web browsers such as NCSA Mosaic and Netscape Navigator (promoted by products such as Internet in a Box).
So basically it was an add-on that was included with many OEM systems. I had to log into my ISP (a BBS) with their terminal program to download Netscape and that is when I discovered that Win95 wasn't much better then Win3.1 at multitasking. Being used to OS/2 it was quite a disappointment. Note that OS/2 shipped with a browser, WebExplorer, which was mostly a large DLL to allow other programs to use its widgets, in '94 along with enough of a stack to dial into the internet.
The problem is that libertarianism, like most isms, encompasses a bunch of different believes. At heart it is just the opposite of authoritarianism but there is the modern wing who as you say, vote Republican or Conservative here and seem to just want to be petty authoritarians. You see it here with certain posters, and those posters would never vote for Sanders, yet call themselves Libertarian.
I don't think the internet would ever have been invented by private industry as there is no profit in it. Private industry was busy inventing walled gardens, AOL, CompuServe and of course Win95 originally shipped with MSN, not a web browser. Here we are over a quarter of a century later and the internet is being twisted into walled gardens (Facebook, the Apple Store etc) as they're more profitable.
Not to disagree with your point but the Americans seem to be the first to group copyright and patents together. Modern copyright law was based on advancing learning which is what was meant in late 18th century English by the "Arts and Sciences" and the Statute of Anne was properly titled something like "An act for the encouragement of learning by giving a limited monopoly on writings" Patents historically were about advancing manufacturing, often abused to give an income to the Crown, eg selling a patent on salt. The first modern patent law, at least in common law countries, was the "Statute of Monopolies" passed in 1624 which revoked most monopolies excepting those granted for new "methods of manufacture" with "manufacture" at the time covering both creation and design and lasted for up to 14 years. Note that there was no disclosure clause, perhaps because disclosure was considered automatic in that simpler time. Also of interest in the act was it removed private monopolies on dispensing justice and enforcing penal laws. In other words the start of government having the sole right to violence to enforce law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
We (Canada) are kinda stuck with having to go along with America as we're too dependent on trade to refuse to sign. And of course Trudeau will find himself surrounded by advisers reminding him of this as well as all the benefits to the country (actually the rich). Basically as long as America signs, we (Canada, Australia and NZ) are screwed.
Your abolishing of the government would lead to extreme corporate fascism and totalitarian oligarchy, possibly even dictatorship, and you'd end up as a slave worker in no time.
I think the parent poster is planning to be part of the oligarchy rather then a slave worker. He's probably in for a rude surprise but who knows, maybe he'll end up as dictator for life.
Where are you getting that information? From what I can research, the number of tropical storms worldwide has been pretty stable at 87 +-10 for quite a while with a lot of caveats. Lack of data for the southern hemisphere, lack of data before satellites and such. Atlantic hurricanes are up in number since 1995 after a low in the '70's and '80's with the decade of '96-'05 being the second most destructive since 1900 ('26-'35 was the worst). These seem to be normal cycles. What does seem to be changing is the intensity of tropical storms, both wind speed and duration with a 70% increase in the last 3 decades. This is what is scary about Patricia, from tropical depression to one of the strongest ever cat5s in 38 hours
Telus still charges 27 cents a minute, with discounts after 5PM or on weekends and $5 a month for access to long distance, $8.95 a month for call display, and $35.95 a month for dial-up. All the plans include high speed internet so if you live somewhere with no choice but dial-up, no plans. Also no VOIP.
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OS/2 (actually eCS+Arca Noae latest) will install and run on some modern hardware. Being 1990's tech it does have limits, needs to see a BIOS and only supports up to 2TB drives (plan is to split larger drives into virtual drives), no video acceleration, no USB3 currently, shitty wireless support, sound supported by an Alsa port, printing limited to CUPs, any memory over 3.5GBs only usable as a RAM disk, limit of 64 cores (only licensed for one physical CPU)
Who other than old people still listen to the radio, AM or otherwise?
People without high speed internet and no TV reception for a start. Occasionally I even listen to the AM traffic station, usually to find out why the traffic has stopped.
Where does the American Constitution say that the Constitution only applies to American citizens (not counting the political stuff like voting or occupying office)? Most of it refers to people.
Read your Constitution, specifically Article 5. Here it is,
So one way is for 2/3rds of a quorum (simple majority of members) of the House and Senate. The other way, in case Congress doesn't want to go along with the amendment, is for 2/3rds of the States to apply for a convention. Either way a super majority of States (3/4s) can amend the Constitution with the only exception being limiting a States equal representation in the Senate.
The Supreme Court is supposed to follow the Constitution and an amendment could remove them and even declare "Dear Leader President for Life".
America is an extreme case this way as almost anything goes if a large enough majority is in favour. Here in Canada, where it generally takes 7/10ths of the Provinces and those Provinces representing over 50% of the population to amend, the Constitution (1982) has limits on what can be easily amended including a small list of amendments that take 10/10ths of the Provinces and Parliament to pass. Things like removing the Queen, certain balances of the Senate and House of Commons, the Supreme Court and the amending formula.
Now it is possible that a military coup would prevent a bad amendment going through and history has shown that the American Federal Government can use the military to force an amendment through by showing up at the State Legislature and threatening violence if the Legislature doesn't vote the right way.
You have to be careful as words do change their meanings, sometimes drastically, in the course of a few centuries. In the case of "is", the meaning seems to have been stable for the last 4+ centuries. Other words not so much, take the etymology od "nice",
From http://www.etymonline.com/inde...
Read your Constitution, all it takes is 3/4ths of the States to amend it and those amendments can do anything including removing all the other amendments including first 10 that make up the Bill of Rights and the 13th, 14th and whichever other ones made slavery illegal. Once the Constitution has been changed, the Supreme Court has to make rulings in line with it.
In a democracy all it takes is a strong enough majority to change things, 3/4s in the case of America I believe.
As soon as they bought something and looked at their change, consisting of loonies, toonies, no pennies and colourful plastic they'd know. The odd American might also notice that they got too much change back too.
Don't you Americans have a Constitution containing a Bill of Rights that includes a clause that allows the people Freedom of Speech? IIRC it basically says that Congress will not pass a law abridging speech and yet you get 5 insightful for thinking that someone exercising his 1st Amendment rights should got to jail, for a long time yet, for simply breaking a non-disclosure agreement.
Or perhaps you think that your government should not have to obey the Constitution.
Should be
They'll be a trade deal sooner or later to allow businesses to sue countries over privacy protection (and any other pesky laws that protect citizens). Can't have sovereign nations passing laws that are bad for business, especially businesses that pay lip service to pretending to be American.
They'll be a trade deal sooner or later to allow businesses to sue countries over privacy protection (and any other pesky laws that pro
He's going to fertilize the potatoes with vitamins? Plants, including potatoes, need NPK (nitrogen, potassium and phosphorous) as well as various micro-nutrients, all in a form that can be taken up by the plants.
Whether human manure and piss would supply enough when starting with regolith I don't really know but doubt based on my gardening experience.
Look at the single thread score. Atom Z2795 = 480, 3GHz P4=652. 4 cores, faster memory, and probably better cache are what helps the Atom. It's still better then the P4 if running at the same clock but only by about a third.
MS OS/2 v1.3 is a bit of a collectors item as by then MS was moving away from OS/2 and most v1.3s were from IBM. And yes it had almost the same interface as Win (NT)3.x though you could have program group windows outside of program manager.
OS/2 V3 (not OS/2 NT V3) ran fine on a 386 as long as you had the memory. I ran it with 4MBs and had to strip it down so it didn't thrash the swap file and later 8 MBs on the same 386/33. You really could format a floppy, play a video and do other stuff smoothly, at least as long as you didn't swap too much.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So basically it was an add-on that was included with many OEM systems. I had to log into my ISP (a BBS) with their terminal program to download Netscape and that is when I discovered that Win95 wasn't much better then Win3.1 at multitasking. Being used to OS/2 it was quite a disappointment. Note that OS/2 shipped with a browser, WebExplorer, which was mostly a large DLL to allow other programs to use its widgets, in '94 along with enough of a stack to dial into the internet.
Not everyone has the means to just get up and move to a different state and you're suggesting another star?
The problem is that libertarianism, like most isms, encompasses a bunch of different believes. At heart it is just the opposite of authoritarianism but there is the modern wing who as you say, vote Republican or Conservative here and seem to just want to be petty authoritarians. You see it here with certain posters, and those posters would never vote for Sanders, yet call themselves Libertarian.
I don't think the internet would ever have been invented by private industry as there is no profit in it. Private industry was busy inventing walled gardens, AOL, CompuServe and of course Win95 originally shipped with MSN, not a web browser.
Here we are over a quarter of a century later and the internet is being twisted into walled gardens (Facebook, the Apple Store etc) as they're more profitable.
You do know that libertarianism was originally a socialist ideal and was that way for a hundred years before the Americans twisted it into its current entitlement form (I got mine and its mine)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Not to disagree with your point but the Americans seem to be the first to group copyright and patents together.
Modern copyright law was based on advancing learning which is what was meant in late 18th century English by the "Arts and Sciences" and the Statute of Anne was properly titled something like "An act for the encouragement of learning by giving a limited monopoly on writings"
Patents historically were about advancing manufacturing, often abused to give an income to the Crown, eg selling a patent on salt. The first modern patent law, at least in common law countries, was the "Statute of Monopolies" passed in 1624 which revoked most monopolies excepting those granted for new "methods of manufacture" with "manufacture" at the time covering both creation and design and lasted for up to 14 years. Note that there was no disclosure clause, perhaps because disclosure was considered automatic in that simpler time.
Also of interest in the act was it removed private monopolies on dispensing justice and enforcing penal laws. In other words the start of government having the sole right to violence to enforce law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
We (Canada) are kinda stuck with having to go along with America as we're too dependent on trade to refuse to sign. And of course Trudeau will find himself surrounded by advisers reminding him of this as well as all the benefits to the country (actually the rich).
Basically as long as America signs, we (Canada, Australia and NZ) are screwed.
Your abolishing of the government would lead to extreme corporate fascism and totalitarian oligarchy, possibly even dictatorship, and you'd end up as a slave worker in no time.
I think the parent poster is planning to be part of the oligarchy rather then a slave worker. He's probably in for a rude surprise but who knows, maybe he'll end up as dictator for life.
Where are you getting that information?
From what I can research, the number of tropical storms worldwide has been pretty stable at 87 +-10 for quite a while with a lot of caveats. Lack of data for the southern hemisphere, lack of data before satellites and such.
Atlantic hurricanes are up in number since 1995 after a low in the '70's and '80's with the decade of '96-'05 being the second most destructive since 1900 ('26-'35 was the worst).
These seem to be normal cycles. What does seem to be changing is the intensity of tropical storms, both wind speed and duration with a 70% increase in the last 3 decades.
This is what is scary about Patricia, from tropical depression to one of the strongest ever cat5s in 38 hours
A couple of weeks with no food in the stores and no gas at the gas stations would do it.
Hurricanes have been down in recent years.
Only 22 cat4 or higher this year. Remember that the world does not just consist of the USA
Telus still charges 27 cents a minute, with discounts after 5PM or on weekends and $5 a month for access to long distance, $8.95 a month for call display, and $35.95 a month for dial-up. All the plans include high speed internet so if you live somewhere with no choice but dial-up, no plans. Also no VOIP.