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No matter how much you dislike media companies, it is hard to say that authors should have no rights over their work for any amount of time. And even if you did, you would have to amend the constitution to strike the copyright clause. Good luck with that.
American Constitution says that Congress may create copyright laws, not has to create copyright laws. So all America has to do is withdraw from some treaties and then can get rid of copyright.
NT was designed to be hardware agnostic with just needing an updated HAL to be ported to another architecture and there has been NT ports for a few architectures. The problem is that MS started moving parts of Windows into kernel space, eg the video driver with NT4 for speed. I'm not sure what the current status is but every time someone talks about bluescreens (or the reboot that replaced it), someone else claims it's hardware or hardware drivers so some stuff must be in kernel space. Really it would take a proper micro-kernel to completely avoid the issue as far as I understand it and even the above is just my understanding.
$75 here in BC, and they've closed down most of the Motor Vehicle offices so you have to go a ways to get it. For my wife, who has good Federal ID, I have to take a day of off work to drive her ($20 in gas thanks to $1.38 a litre gas here) in to get the Provincial ID so she can vote in the election in October.
I remember shopping when the power went out and the store handed out flashlights and calculators to the cashiers. That was back when everything had price tags. Last time I was shopping and the power went out, the cash registers kept working but went down one by one as the server started screwing up, gotta love Windows and the fact that they obviously hadn't tested enough. Even if the system hadn't started crashing, they only have so much time on their UPS and first thing they did was stop new customers from entering the store.
Here in Canada the Conservatives passed the "Fair Elections Act" which mandates official ID with your current address on it. $75 for my wife who has lots of official ID but not with her address (previously she'd just show a bill with her name and address). This also disenfranchises people without a numbered address such as natives on their reservations, students who are living somewhere for a few years while attending university and others. They also used the act to take away much of Elections Canada investigative powers for fraud such as the robot calls they previously got busted for, going over spending limits that they keep getting busted for and changed a few other things so they can subvert our attempt at election financial reform, putting the costs on the taxpayer as the right loves to do while trumpeting that they don't.
The problem is that the death penalty or a long time in jail does not work as a deterrent for certain types of people. They think they'll never get caught or just don't think.
That's so true, before the 20th century when regulations became common there were no serfs. Look at Czarist Russia, the common people were so free, or America in the mid 19th century, slaves rather then surfs along with workers stuck getting paid in script that could only be spent at the company store. We can even go back further to the 14th century when the black death empowered the working class due to the shortage of labour and how serfdom disappeared thanks to the lack of regulations. The rich left to themselves have always strived to free people and it is only today that people have lost their freedoms and rights due to government interference, often forcing business to abuse their workers and make more money.
Now imagine someone having the great idea of introducing a new car that burns fossil fuels and just throws out its carcinogenic exhaust fumes wherever it's driving. You would smell it whenever one passed by (you can't now because you're so used to it). People would say it's scandalous that those things were allowed anywhere near population centers
Just have to look at history to see that as long as the fossil fuel burning car is cheaper and/or better in other ways such as range, it'll displace the electric vehicle even with the toxic stinky fumes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Having a national army was only begrudgingly allowed with funding having to be re-applied for bi-annually. The second amendment is pretty clear that the militia was important and at the time it was widely recognized that maintaining a permanent national army leads to tyranny. Besides how hard would it have been to amend the Constitution to allow an Air Force? The lack of Constitution amendments is one of the problems with the current American political system. Want Congress to be able to limit speech for national security? Amend the Constitution rather then interpreting the 1st amendment in a way that does not jive with the very simple language.
It's not really race, rather that a group, who were defined by skin colour, have been kicked down for generations and helping them up. Really the problem is groups who have lost their parenting skills and how the next generations suffer from that. It's a hard problem to deal with.
Actually the socialists were mostly purged in the "Night of the Long Knifes". Afterwards the National Socialist Party was about as socialist as America. Hitler pretty well had to throw the socialists under the bus to have the Reichswehr, which consisted largely of Prussian aristocracy, as well as other leading conservatives, on his side. Note that quite a few conservatives who were considered disloyal, were also shot. Hitler really doesn't seem to have much of a political philosophy besides "me first", taking some socialist ideas and many conservative ideas as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There has been the odd matriarchal society where being a women was pretty good, at least relatively. Even recently heard of a chimpanzee tribe, living in the savanna instead of jungle, that was matriarchal and the females had it much better then the average chimpanzee female. As for violence in general. I'd guess that it ebbed and flowed depending on population vs resources with low violence after a population crash and high violence when the population out grew resources. Of course resources also varied with eg a drought leading to way more violence.
Good point, when I first started driving I used to use the (hand operated) parking brake to prevent rolling back when starting on a hill. One foot on the throttle, other foot on the clutch and one hand on the handbrake. Release brake while releasing the clutch and applying throttle. Handy when learning where hills are very steep.
No. A Faraday cage need only be continuous, conductive, and with any holes that might exist being smaller than some known (if I could be bothered to look it up) fraction of a wavelength of the signal to be blocked.
You are right, with the key being continuous, which an automobile body is not.
Its primary function is to function as a short-circuit to RF fields, not a sink to ground (although grounding it certainly doesn't hurt)
Wiki and other sources claim its primary function is to block static and non-static electric fields by channeling the electric field around and canceling the interior of the cage. I think we're just more familiar with the RF part due to the tin foil hats that we all wear while they are used as much for large voltages such as lightening. I note that linesmen sometimes wear full tin suits for protection when working around very high voltages. As I stated above, my antecedent evidence is getting the best cell reception buried in my vehicle metal shell, which does have large glass sections.
I thought a Faraday cage has to be grounded to actually work. I know that at home, about the only place I sometimes get cell reception is when my phone is in a little cubbyhole under the dash, surrounded my metal. Pull the phone out and watch it lose the signal.
Many professional associations lobby for laws that benefit them all, eg the AMA making sure there is not too much labour in their profession, which would drive down the wages.
Yes, professional associations engage in rent seeking and political corruption; their target is government, and their lobbying is damned harmful. That is not the same as collective bargaining for wages and working conditions between private sector unions and private employers. (Public sector unions are yet different and aren't even "unions" in the usual sense.)
Unluckily, with employers also taking advantage of political corruption through lobbying and bribing, workers are left having to fight on the same terms.
Are you really saying that professional sports has no way to measure "who is the best performer"?
That's a different sense of the term "professional". Sports "professionals" are mostly the equivalent of blue collar workers: interchangeable physical laborers with shortened careers and medical concerns.
They're still people who deserve control over their lifes. And they are professional in the sense that they negotiate individual contracts based on performance.
Are you really saying that professional sports has no way to measure "who is the best performer"? It is a good example of an industry where the deck was stacked before unionizing. Many professional associations lobby for laws that benefit them all, eg the AMA making sure there is not too much labour in their profession, which would drive down the wages. Myself, I've worked around the wage slave thing to a degree by being self-employed. I do have relatives in the trades and generally unions help them.
Many professionals have unions, often under different names. Medical Association, Bar Association, Actors guild, various engineering associations. Others such as professional sports do call them unions and since unionizing have done much better. There are only a few professions where the workers don't have a stacked deck against them and where it is clear who are the best performers.
The Soviet Union (things were really bad for the average person in Czarist Russia). Cuba is another example. Compare to the capitalist Haiti or mafia run Cuba. Of course both above examples would have done much better to allow a mix of capitalism at some point.
Why do you think that the alternative to capitalism would be a dictatorship? We have real examples of operating systems that are written for other reasons then money, some if which have been successful enough to attract capitalists. Early Linux is probably the most well known example of a operating system written in a socialist manner.
The real question is how many Iraqis would have preferred Saddam to being invaded, their infrastructure destroyed and left in a situation where ISIS could flourish. After 10 years of sanctions, you know hungry children because the people were being punished for having an evil dictator, many Iraqis were not eager for more American intervention, especially after the last time where the Americans killed a 100,000 conscripts and stopped. Even the Kurds have once again been thrown under the bus so Turkey would join the fight. Would have been so much simpler if the American Ambassador had told Saddam no when he asked for permission to invade Kuwait.
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Alternatively, use SeaMonkey or one of the Firefox forks.
No matter how much you dislike media companies, it is hard to say that authors should have no rights over their work for any amount of time. And even if you did, you would have to amend the constitution to strike the copyright clause. Good luck with that.
American Constitution says that Congress may create copyright laws, not has to create copyright laws. So all America has to do is withdraw from some treaties and then can get rid of copyright.
NT was designed to be hardware agnostic with just needing an updated HAL to be ported to another architecture and there has been NT ports for a few architectures. The problem is that MS started moving parts of Windows into kernel space, eg the video driver with NT4 for speed. I'm not sure what the current status is but every time someone talks about bluescreens (or the reboot that replaced it), someone else claims it's hardware or hardware drivers so some stuff must be in kernel space. Really it would take a proper micro-kernel to completely avoid the issue as far as I understand it and even the above is just my understanding.
$75 here in BC, and they've closed down most of the Motor Vehicle offices so you have to go a ways to get it. For my wife, who has good Federal ID, I have to take a day of off work to drive her ($20 in gas thanks to $1.38 a litre gas here) in to get the Provincial ID so she can vote in the election in October.
I remember shopping when the power went out and the store handed out flashlights and calculators to the cashiers. That was back when everything had price tags.
Last time I was shopping and the power went out, the cash registers kept working but went down one by one as the server started screwing up, gotta love Windows and the fact that they obviously hadn't tested enough.
Even if the system hadn't started crashing, they only have so much time on their UPS and first thing they did was stop new customers from entering the store.
Here in Canada the Conservatives passed the "Fair Elections Act" which mandates official ID with your current address on it. $75 for my wife who has lots of official ID but not with her address (previously she'd just show a bill with her name and address). This also disenfranchises people without a numbered address such as natives on their reservations, students who are living somewhere for a few years while attending university and others.
They also used the act to take away much of Elections Canada investigative powers for fraud such as the robot calls they previously got busted for, going over spending limits that they keep getting busted for and changed a few other things so they can subvert our attempt at election financial reform, putting the costs on the taxpayer as the right loves to do while trumpeting that they don't.
If you have 10 years of experience of dealing with your childrens allergies, why the hell didn't you have some prednisone on hand?
The problem is that the death penalty or a long time in jail does not work as a deterrent for certain types of people. They think they'll never get caught or just don't think.
That's so true, before the 20th century when regulations became common there were no serfs. Look at Czarist Russia, the common people were so free, or America in the mid 19th century, slaves rather then surfs along with workers stuck getting paid in script that could only be spent at the company store. We can even go back further to the 14th century when the black death empowered the working class due to the shortage of labour and how serfdom disappeared thanks to the lack of regulations.
The rich left to themselves have always strived to free people and it is only today that people have lost their freedoms and rights due to government interference, often forcing business to abuse their workers and make more money.
Now imagine someone having the great idea of introducing a new car that burns fossil fuels and just throws out its carcinogenic exhaust fumes wherever it's driving. You would smell it whenever one passed by (you can't now because you're so used to it). People would say it's scandalous that those things were allowed anywhere near population centers
Just have to look at history to see that as long as the fossil fuel burning car is cheaper and/or better in other ways such as range, it'll displace the electric vehicle even with the toxic stinky fumes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Having a national army was only begrudgingly allowed with funding having to be re-applied for bi-annually. The second amendment is pretty clear that the militia was important and at the time it was widely recognized that maintaining a permanent national army leads to tyranny. Besides how hard would it have been to amend the Constitution to allow an Air Force? The lack of Constitution amendments is one of the problems with the current American political system. Want Congress to be able to limit speech for national security? Amend the Constitution rather then interpreting the 1st amendment in a way that does not jive with the very simple language.
It's not really race, rather that a group, who were defined by skin colour, have been kicked down for generations and helping them up. Really the problem is groups who have lost their parenting skills and how the next generations suffer from that. It's a hard problem to deal with.
Actually the socialists were mostly purged in the "Night of the Long Knifes". Afterwards the National Socialist Party was about as socialist as America. Hitler pretty well had to throw the socialists under the bus to have the Reichswehr, which consisted largely of Prussian aristocracy, as well as other leading conservatives, on his side. Note that quite a few conservatives who were considered disloyal, were also shot.
Hitler really doesn't seem to have much of a political philosophy besides "me first", taking some socialist ideas and many conservative ideas as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There has been the odd matriarchal society where being a women was pretty good, at least relatively. Even recently heard of a chimpanzee tribe, living in the savanna instead of jungle, that was matriarchal and the females had it much better then the average chimpanzee female.
As for violence in general. I'd guess that it ebbed and flowed depending on population vs resources with low violence after a population crash and high violence when the population out grew resources. Of course resources also varied with eg a drought leading to way more violence.
Good point, when I first started driving I used to use the (hand operated) parking brake to prevent rolling back when starting on a hill. One foot on the throttle, other foot on the clutch and one hand on the handbrake. Release brake while releasing the clutch and applying throttle. Handy when learning where hills are very steep.
No. A Faraday cage need only be continuous, conductive, and with any holes that might exist being smaller than some known (if I could be bothered to look it up) fraction of a wavelength of the signal to be blocked.
You are right, with the key being continuous, which an automobile body is not.
Its primary function is to function as a short-circuit to RF fields, not a sink to ground (although grounding it certainly doesn't hurt)
Wiki and other sources claim its primary function is to block static and non-static electric fields by channeling the electric field around and canceling the interior of the cage. I think we're just more familiar with the RF part due to the tin foil hats that we all wear while they are used as much for large voltages such as lightening. I note that linesmen sometimes wear full tin suits for protection when working around very high voltages.
As I stated above, my antecedent evidence is getting the best cell reception buried in my vehicle metal shell, which does have large glass sections.
I thought a Faraday cage has to be grounded to actually work. I know that at home, about the only place I sometimes get cell reception is when my phone is in a little cubbyhole under the dash, surrounded my metal. Pull the phone out and watch it lose the signal.
My parking brake is foot operated.
Yes, professional associations engage in rent seeking and political corruption; their target is government, and their lobbying is damned harmful. That is not the same as collective bargaining for wages and working conditions between private sector unions and private employers. (Public sector unions are yet different and aren't even "unions" in the usual sense.)
Unluckily, with employers also taking advantage of political corruption through lobbying and bribing, workers are left having to fight on the same terms.
That's a different sense of the term "professional". Sports "professionals" are mostly the equivalent of blue collar workers: interchangeable physical laborers with shortened careers and medical concerns.
They're still people who deserve control over their lifes. And they are professional in the sense that they negotiate individual contracts based on performance.
Are you really saying that professional sports has no way to measure "who is the best performer"? It is a good example of an industry where the deck was stacked before unionizing.
Many professional associations lobby for laws that benefit them all, eg the AMA making sure there is not too much labour in their profession, which would drive down the wages.
Myself, I've worked around the wage slave thing to a degree by being self-employed. I do have relatives in the trades and generally unions help them.
Many professionals have unions, often under different names. Medical Association, Bar Association, Actors guild, various engineering associations. Others such as professional sports do call them unions and since unionizing have done much better.
There are only a few professions where the workers don't have a stacked deck against them and where it is clear who are the best performers.
The Soviet Union (things were really bad for the average person in Czarist Russia).
Cuba is another example. Compare to the capitalist Haiti or mafia run Cuba.
Of course both above examples would have done much better to allow a mix of capitalism at some point.
Why do you think that the alternative to capitalism would be a dictatorship? We have real examples of operating systems that are written for other reasons then money, some if which have been successful enough to attract capitalists. Early Linux is probably the most well known example of a operating system written in a socialist manner.
The real question is how many Iraqis would have preferred Saddam to being invaded, their infrastructure destroyed and left in a situation where ISIS could flourish.
After 10 years of sanctions, you know hungry children because the people were being punished for having an evil dictator, many Iraqis were not eager for more American intervention, especially after the last time where the Americans killed a 100,000 conscripts and stopped. Even the Kurds have once again been thrown under the bus so Turkey would join the fight.
Would have been so much simpler if the American Ambassador had told Saddam no when he asked for permission to invade Kuwait.