Do you really think there won't be an exception for the government to use secure communication? As the western world moves right on the political spectrum, we'll see more and more secretive governments who demand to know everything about their subjects. Been watching it here in Canada ever since the Conservatives got voted in (on an open government ticket). Expansion of police and spying agencies powers including blanket immunity from breaking the law. Increasing secrecy in the government, often using austerity as an excuse why things like the FOIA laws have been neutered, meanwhile over and over introducing laws to allow spying until the people get tired of fighting the laws.
It's inevitable that business will be more successful by financing a totalitarian state to force people to buy their products. Think about it, one business spends a fortune making a better product and has little money left for advertising etc, another business pays far less to influence the government to force people to use their product and to screw the other company. Which one succeeds? At least we're no longer in the days when businesses simply hired mercenaries to force people to do what the company wants, though we could still go there if influencing government gets too expensive. The invisible hand simply favours businesses that are efficient, and it is more efficient to influence government and use taxpayer money instead of the businesses.
Once again, we're talking about Bumblebees, not Honey Bees. Very different and not domesticated. Just slightly up the page, this was posted, http://bumblebeeconservation.o...
Try to keep up. We're talking about Bumblebees, says right on my browser windows frame, not Honey Bees. Where I live there is no mosquito spraying, no farming and the wild bees, including Bumblebees are having a fuck of a year due to weird weather (everything is 2-4 weeks early except when the wild bees hatch to make new hives). Pollination rates on the wild Huckleberries, which are usually the first crop for the wild bees, is close to zero, which points to the bees not having their usual spring breakfast which they need to establish the new hives (many types of wild bee hives only last a year)
Remember, that is an average, with almost no change at the equator and maximum change (on average) towards the poles. Then there are the weird outlier years such as this one where I live. Winter ended at least a month early, the drought showed up and it is shaping up to be the hottest year on record (hottest June, driest May and June so far, the bush (wild flowers) is dieing and the watering restriction are getting severe so people don't have as many flowers). The Bees had bad timing with their usual spring crop of Huckleberries and suffered for it. Now there are no Huckleberries and other things are suffering. I feel bad for the bears. Because Bumble Bees and most of the other native bees build new hives every year, one bad year puts a huge dent in their population, a couple of bad years...
Honey Bees would be better as they have 3-4 orders of magnitude more Bees in a hive. Besides the Honey Bee makes hives that are easier to domesticate and sell, imagine digging up a Bumble Bee hive and trying to sell it.
Considering Polar Bears only evolved their current teeth about 10,000-20,000 years ago, strictly speaking the current species has not survived many cycles. Polar Bears are marine animals and dependent on hunting seal, so hanging around on land leads to starvation. Of course they can evolve into Pizzly bears which can live on land but strictly speaking, they're not Polar bears anymore.
I thought that Microsoft put one of their (ex-)executives in as CEO, he made decisions that killed Nokia and then sold it to MS and went back to work at MS, probably with a huge bonus. Personally I've been very happy with my Nokia phone, owned it for ten years now, battery is still good for 5 days (probably more if it didn't spend over half its time out of range of a signal), does what a phone is supposed to do, namely make phone calls.
Better caching seems to be one part. Watching the activity on the network, Firefox seems to download a lot more info to render a page. While not so noticeable with the speed of hardware and improvements in the JavaScript JIT, there also seems to less JavaScript executed. There was a time, perhaps in the FF3.5 days, when Firefox would take twice as long to render a page on Slashdot as SeaMonkey (both built locally from the same tree), with the CPU at 100% the whole time. And yes dial-up here with crappy phone lines means 26.4 to 28.8 kpbs download speeds.
That's why I use SeaMonkey, the default interface has barely changed since Netscape 4.x days. As a bonus it is faster then Firefox (important on dial-up) while still doing most everything that Firefox does.
The UK has a Constitution, though some of it is unwritten (eg elections have to be held within 5 years except in exceptional circumstances with the consent of most all of Parliament, eg IIRC during WWI) and the rest is spread across various documents with the latest being the European Convention on Human Rights IIRC, which took away the supremacy of Parliament. While you're right about the courts being the final arbitrators, the corporations can be the ones who petition the courts for a ruling. Sadly you do have a point about pressure from the administration.
Some government regulations/laws are unconstitutional, including in quite a few nations, spying on citizens. Whether the government does it or it farms it out to private industry shouldn't matter, it is not legitimate.
Terrorism is terrorizing the population for political purposes. Blowing up train tracks in such a way to force the train to make an emergency stop (no pre-announcement) can be terrorizing, especially since it takes timing that can screw up. Burning down buildings can be terrorizing, as people did occasionally die and when it's the court house, there can be a lot of inconvenience. Taking out the power for 10's of thousands of people including hospitals etc can also be considered terrorizing, especially if it becomes a habit. And 70+ odd years ago, nude protests were at least weird. Anyways according to my government, at the time it was considered terrorism though now it seems to be more considered extreme protests. Of course flying a plane into a building isn't terrorism either, just mass murder and destruction of property. Another example is the Air India bombing, which killed 300+ people, which was for mostly nationalism reasons. .
That might be true for the suicide type bomber but there are lots of terrorists who are motivated by other reasons such as nationalism, freedom and even just following their parents. I've known terrorists who blew up train tracks (in such a way to severely inconvenience people rather then kill), burn empty buildings, often their own property. Blow up power lines. And even take off all their clothes and march through town to court. Bunch of nude old Russian peasants can be scary, especially back in the '50's.
Actually socialism requires the people (workers) to own the productive assets. This can be through government or it can be through co-ops, credit unions, worker owned factories and the old style commune. Personally, I don't really trust the government to own the productive assets as eventually a different government will get in with a different ideology and fuck things up.
Actually it is conservationism that demands bigger government and often big business to avoid accountability, usually to enforce their moral values on the people and also to create an enemy to get the people behind them, patriotism is always a good way to stop people from thinking. David Cameron is a conservative and like most conservatives, believes the governments role is to spy on the people and support the authoritarian types who run big business Many socialists want small government and small business to avoid the tyranny that comes from any organization with too much power, they also want the people to be in charge. This is the reason that during the American Revolution conservatives were attacked by the revolutionaries (tar and feathered at first, then their property removed through Letters of Attainment, forced to leave the colonies and finally Lynch pushed extra-judiciary hanging), they wanted the people to be in charge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is one example
Which is much easier if both parties are suffering from the bad laws, otherwise we get more bad laws as they benefit the more powerful party and repress everyone else.
Recently in the news again was the story of someone who spent 23 years in jail for a rape that he didn't commit (the real rapist finished his sentence by dieing). It was the usual, a drifter or other low life in the wrong place at the wrong time and a police force/DA who really wanted a conviction. It happens enough that just because someone was convicted is not a guarantee that they're guilty. There's also been quite a few people on death row exonerated of their crimes, often by DNA evidence.
You still need land to build so it's tear down a 10-20 story building and kick the renters out or buy up a lot of houses and either way the developer is going to want a return on their investment so they'll build luxury condos and sell for half a million and up.
Wonder if it's like here where most building permits involve tearing down cheap rental property to replace with million dollar condos and many people complaining about getting kicked out of their apartments with no where to go. Problem with coastal cities is most all the land is already being used and the way to make money is to sell to ever richer people. Even in suburbia there are no rentals being built though you might be able to buy a 300 sq-ft condo for $100,000.
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Do you really think there won't be an exception for the government to use secure communication? As the western world moves right on the political spectrum, we'll see more and more secretive governments who demand to know everything about their subjects. Been watching it here in Canada ever since the Conservatives got voted in (on an open government ticket). Expansion of police and spying agencies powers including blanket immunity from breaking the law. Increasing secrecy in the government, often using austerity as an excuse why things like the FOIA laws have been neutered, meanwhile over and over introducing laws to allow spying until the people get tired of fighting the laws.
Not really, as winter is coming to Pluto and the atmosphere will freeze.
It's inevitable that business will be more successful by financing a totalitarian state to force people to buy their products. Think about it, one business spends a fortune making a better product and has little money left for advertising etc, another business pays far less to influence the government to force people to use their product and to screw the other company. Which one succeeds?
At least we're no longer in the days when businesses simply hired mercenaries to force people to do what the company wants, though we could still go there if influencing government gets too expensive.
The invisible hand simply favours businesses that are efficient, and it is more efficient to influence government and use taxpayer money instead of the businesses.
Once again, we're talking about Bumblebees, not Honey Bees. Very different and not domesticated. Just slightly up the page, this was posted, http://bumblebeeconservation.o...
Try to keep up. We're talking about Bumblebees, says right on my browser windows frame, not Honey Bees. Where I live there is no mosquito spraying, no farming and the wild bees, including Bumblebees are having a fuck of a year due to weird weather (everything is 2-4 weeks early except when the wild bees hatch to make new hives). Pollination rates on the wild Huckleberries, which are usually the first crop for the wild bees, is close to zero, which points to the bees not having their usual spring breakfast which they need to establish the new hives (many types of wild bee hives only last a year)
Remember, that is an average, with almost no change at the equator and maximum change (on average) towards the poles. Then there are the weird outlier years such as this one where I live. Winter ended at least a month early, the drought showed up and it is shaping up to be the hottest year on record (hottest June, driest May and June so far, the bush (wild flowers) is dieing and the watering restriction are getting severe so people don't have as many flowers). The Bees had bad timing with their usual spring crop of Huckleberries and suffered for it. Now there are no Huckleberries and other things are suffering. I feel bad for the bears.
Because Bumble Bees and most of the other native bees build new hives every year, one bad year puts a huge dent in their population, a couple of bad years...
Honey Bees would be better as they have 3-4 orders of magnitude more Bees in a hive. Besides the Honey Bee makes hives that are easier to domesticate and sell, imagine digging up a Bumble Bee hive and trying to sell it.
Considering Polar Bears only evolved their current teeth about 10,000-20,000 years ago, strictly speaking the current species has not survived many cycles.
Polar Bears are marine animals and dependent on hunting seal, so hanging around on land leads to starvation.
Of course they can evolve into Pizzly bears which can live on land but strictly speaking, they're not Polar bears anymore.
I thought that Microsoft put one of their (ex-)executives in as CEO, he made decisions that killed Nokia and then sold it to MS and went back to work at MS, probably with a huge bonus.
Personally I've been very happy with my Nokia phone, owned it for ten years now, battery is still good for 5 days (probably more if it didn't spend over half its time out of range of a signal), does what a phone is supposed to do, namely make phone calls.
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Better caching seems to be one part. Watching the activity on the network, Firefox seems to download a lot more info to render a page. While not so noticeable with the speed of hardware and improvements in the JavaScript JIT, there also seems to less JavaScript executed. There was a time, perhaps in the FF3.5 days, when Firefox would take twice as long to render a page on Slashdot as SeaMonkey (both built locally from the same tree), with the CPU at 100% the whole time.
And yes dial-up here with crappy phone lines means 26.4 to 28.8 kpbs download speeds.
That's why I use SeaMonkey, the default interface has barely changed since Netscape 4.x days. As a bonus it is faster then Firefox (important on dial-up) while still doing most everything that Firefox does.
The UK has a Constitution, though some of it is unwritten (eg elections have to be held within 5 years except in exceptional circumstances with the consent of most all of Parliament, eg IIRC during WWI) and the rest is spread across various documents with the latest being the European Convention on Human Rights IIRC, which took away the supremacy of Parliament.
While you're right about the courts being the final arbitrators, the corporations can be the ones who petition the courts for a ruling. Sadly you do have a point about pressure from the administration.
Some government regulations/laws are unconstitutional, including in quite a few nations, spying on citizens. Whether the government does it or it farms it out to private industry shouldn't matter, it is not legitimate.
Terrorism is terrorizing the population for political purposes. Blowing up train tracks in such a way to force the train to make an emergency stop (no pre-announcement) can be terrorizing, especially since it takes timing that can screw up. Burning down buildings can be terrorizing, as people did occasionally die and when it's the court house, there can be a lot of inconvenience. Taking out the power for 10's of thousands of people including hospitals etc can also be considered terrorizing, especially if it becomes a habit. And 70+ odd years ago, nude protests were at least weird.
Anyways according to my government, at the time it was considered terrorism though now it seems to be more considered extreme protests.
Of course flying a plane into a building isn't terrorism either, just mass murder and destruction of property.
Another example is the Air India bombing, which killed 300+ people, which was for mostly nationalism reasons.
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That might be true for the suicide type bomber but there are lots of terrorists who are motivated by other reasons such as nationalism, freedom and even just following their parents.
I've known terrorists who blew up train tracks (in such a way to severely inconvenience people rather then kill), burn empty buildings, often their own property. Blow up power lines. And even take off all their clothes and march through town to court. Bunch of nude old Russian peasants can be scary, especially back in the '50's.
Actually socialism requires the people (workers) to own the productive assets. This can be through government or it can be through co-ops, credit unions, worker owned factories and the old style commune.
Personally, I don't really trust the government to own the productive assets as eventually a different government will get in with a different ideology and fuck things up.
And I hate spelling checkers
Taken down to the man and wife level any degree of secrecy puts stress on the party who does not know all about the mate.
So what you are saying is that my relationship with my wife would be improved if I don't keep secret that a certain dress makes her ass look big?
Actually it is conservationism that demands bigger government and often big business to avoid accountability, usually to enforce their moral values on the people and also to create an enemy to get the people behind them, patriotism is always a good way to stop people from thinking. David Cameron is a conservative and like most conservatives, believes the governments role is to spy on the people and support the authoritarian types who run big business
Many socialists want small government and small business to avoid the tyranny that comes from any organization with too much power, they also want the people to be in charge. This is the reason that during the American Revolution conservatives were attacked by the revolutionaries (tar and feathered at first, then their property removed through Letters of Attainment, forced to leave the colonies and finally Lynch pushed extra-judiciary hanging), they wanted the people to be in charge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is one example
Which is much easier if both parties are suffering from the bad laws, otherwise we get more bad laws as they benefit the more powerful party and repress everyone else.
Good, what goes around comes around and here in Canada we've been being sued by American investors for banning poisons and such.
Recently in the news again was the story of someone who spent 23 years in jail for a rape that he didn't commit (the real rapist finished his sentence by dieing). It was the usual, a drifter or other low life in the wrong place at the wrong time and a police force/DA who really wanted a conviction. It happens enough that just because someone was convicted is not a guarantee that they're guilty. There's also been quite a few people on death row exonerated of their crimes, often by DNA evidence.
You still need land to build so it's tear down a 10-20 story building and kick the renters out or buy up a lot of houses and either way the developer is going to want a return on their investment so they'll build luxury condos and sell for half a million and up.
Wonder if it's like here where most building permits involve tearing down cheap rental property to replace with million dollar condos and many people complaining about getting kicked out of their apartments with no where to go.
Problem with coastal cities is most all the land is already being used and the way to make money is to sell to ever richer people. Even in suburbia there are no rentals being built though you might be able to buy a 300 sq-ft condo for $100,000.