Most of us live in Constitutional Representative Democracies with constitutions that override most laws and take a super-majority to change. Assuming you're American the people through their States and Federal govbernments can democratically change your Constitution to outlaw anything. Until that happens their are certain rights enshrined in the Constitution that can not be changed by a simple majority. Americans do have the problem of the Judiciary ignoring very simple and clear rights such as the First Amendment. And often laws are not so clear cut so the Judiciary has to do some interpretation such as "What exactly does equal mean". In my country the rights aren't so clear cut so the government can limit speech if it is considered in societies interest as a democratic and just society, so banning things like child porn is simpler but once again judges often make the final decision.
What was the SAA crap? The first version of OS/2 I ran was the redbox Warp v3 that used my preexisting copy of Win3.1. Worked very well until MS broke it with WIN32s ver 1.30 and DLLs that were hardwired to load above 1GB.
OS/2 2.x+ ran most any DOS and 16bit Windows app fine (much better then NT and even Win95 unless booted to DOS). What it was missing was device drivers for much generic hardware and enough ram to run without swap file thrashing. Price was high as well, partially due to the price of the included Windows which seemed free to most users as it came with their computer and was easily pirated.
Windows 3.x could actually preemptively multitask, with all Win apps in one process and other DOS apps in separate processes. It was still crappy at it. Even Win95 wasn't really a true OS as it still used DOS as the kernel though with the right hardware it used protected mode drivers instead of the DOS drivers.
Warp Connect (Warp v3+) that actually that shipped with a full networking stack. Warp v3 shipped with the IAK (Internet access kit) which had just enough of a network stack to allow dial-in to work. Only had SLIP at first while the refresh included PPP. Also had WebExplorer (along with a gopher client, usenet client and email client which used sendmail) which was mostly a big DLL so other apps could have a browser based UI. MS took this idea, and even the name, and used it for their GUI. Warp v3 was released in 1994.
Wasn't there some kind of licensing arrangement that allowed IBM to either use Microsoft libraries or else to have access to the APIs for 16-bit Windows, that did not extend to 32-bit Windows applications?
IBM had a license for Windows up to v4 and that is why Win95 was ver 4.095. Earlier when Win32s came out, it used a VBX (or whatever the device driver was called) that was unsupported by WINOS2 and IBM kept writing compatible device drivers to allow WIN32s apps to run. This ended with WIN32s ver 1.30 as at the time OS/2 only gave a process 512 MBs of address space and Microsoft hardwired some DLLs to load above 1GB. (It was possible to mix and match parts of WIN32s ver 1.25 and 1.30 to work around this). At this point IBM gave up the Win32s race. OS/2 ver4 did include a subsystem to allow easy recompilation of WIN32 apps to OS/2 but it didn't really catch on as at that time Windows had clearly won the OS wars. But yes, OS/2 could run multiple windows apps, each in its own process space and preemptively multitask them so they were less likely to run out of resources (DDE and the clipboard were shared) plus allow them to use the HPFS file system which was a much better file system the FAT which gave both DOS and Win apps an advantage. Unluckily the Windows license also increased the price of OS/2 though they did come out with the redbox editions which used your existing Win3.x install. Another huge factor was that the price of ram didn't decrease as predicted, likely due to uncompetitive measures by the ram manufacturers. Windows ran better in 4MBs (even 2MBs with Win3.0 in real mode) of ram then OS/2.
Bonus points when you execute the wrong person and the real murderer murders someone else so you can once again execute another wrong person. Rinse and repeat and you can kill a lot of people while feeling mortally superiour for legally murdering people. If you're really lucky society will tilt into full scale authoritarianism and you can kill people based on colour, race, religion or lots of other reasons and as it's all legal, you are still a law obeying upstanding citizen.
Is a pot smoker that much of a threat to society that they deserve locking up? As for felons, the rest of the world solved that problem in the 19th and early 20th century by eliminating that class of person (excepting Nigeria). Only America practices segregation with ex-criminals by creating a whole new class of people without basic rights.
But the most effective way of doing that would be to make legal methods to obtain media more convenient than illegal methods (e.g. streaming services).
That's been happening as well. I understand that netflix_canada now actually has some good content, the media companies are trying to get into the streaming business and things like the CBC offer more and more streaming services.
Only CDs (and cassette tapes) in Canada so blank DVDs are cheaper then blank CDs. After they got the media levy on tapes and CDs the courts ruled that making personal copies of music is OK as we'd payed the levy and the media companies didn't try to get the levy expanded to DVDs (they did try for ipods and such)
In Canada the courts basically said that personal copying of music is legal due to the (audio) media levy. The media companies never did really try for a levy on video media as that would have made copying video legal so now a blank DVD is much cheaper then a blank CD.
Bill C-54, kind of a stronger version of the Patriot Act that allows all kinds of snooping in the name of "stopping the evil terrorists" and before that the law that they finally got passed on the pretext of stopping online bullying that forces ISPs to save data and pass it to the authorities when asked.
Which raises another question, are military pilots included in the general pilot category? You and some of the other posters are right about pilot being a fairly broad category which I didn't consider at first.
True that H2 is usually produced in a non-optimal way. The main point that I was making is it is possible to build an internal combustion engine with close to zero carbon emissions (some lube will leak into the combustion chamber). Maybe not currently practical but hydrogen can be produced in a non-carbon producing way, eg electrolysis using hydro, nuclear or even wind..
Well here many roads have electric trollies running up and down them instead of street cars, not too different. We also used to have an inter-urban tramway that was 50+ miles and if still functioning it would be an hour+ vs the 3 hours that commuting now takes as the other side of town is now about 50 miles away, and getting further as the price of housing continues to climb. With the cost of housing around here, the average person often has to spend a lot of time commuting.
The problem is "maximizing profits" at the expense of safety. We already had one town burn up due to cost savings from a railroad (eliminating the conductor and the engineer being too tired to set the correct number of hand brakes leading to the train rolling into town and blowing up) and numerous close calls. As to other professions, there is quite a bit of evidence that Doctors make mistakes when on 24 hr shifts, and it seems that airplane pilot is the third deadliest occupation with 53.4 deaths per 100,000. Many jobs such as retail are not inherently dangerous and overworked employees will only hurt the bottom line of the company.
I care as a Canadian that it is hard to compete with an uneven playing field, drive 30 miles south and airlines flights are much cheaper which makes it hard for Canadian airlines to compete. On topic, there is the question about infrastructure costs for railroads vs airlines. If one industry is getting subsidized they have an unfair advantage. Eg, it has been mentioned here that railroads get hit up for property taxes in quite a few counties in the States so if airports don't have to pay taxes/rent on land, that is an advantage. Rail is a very efficient form of transport and for passenger service should easily be able to compete with airlines over shorter routes where the time savings from flying don't exist or are very minimal (including travel to airport, going through all the stuff before boarding and the reverse at the end of the trip).
So American Airports/Airlines have to pay rent on the land? Pay for their security services (Homeland Security)? Put money aside for future improvements? Pay the full cost of traffic control? Couple of articles comparing Canada vs the US, Google has lots more. http://business.financialpost.... http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
At one time there were rails in most cities and the negative part of capitalism helped get rid of them as GM and friends really wanted to build up its bus monopoly. To quote wiki,
Most companies involved were convicted in 1949 of conspiracy to monopolize interstate commerce in the sale of buses, fuel, and supplies to NCL subsidiaries, but were acquitted of conspiring to monopolize the transit industry.
They also (at least in Canada) work horrible shifts including being almost permanently on call. Overtired engineers and conductors are a problem that the train companies aren't interested in fixing as they want to maximize profits.
You are talking about one of many forms of socialism, I'm talking about a different form, one that predates Libertarian Capitalism and is the original form of Libertarianism. You're probably American where the brainwashing against socialism was/is very strong and even includes the corruption of Libertarianism into a weird capitalist form where power is concentrated in the wealthy instead of everyone being closer in economic and social status and therefore being able to share equally in liberty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Most of us live in Constitutional Representative Democracies with constitutions that override most laws and take a super-majority to change. Assuming you're American the people through their States and Federal govbernments can democratically change your Constitution to outlaw anything. Until that happens their are certain rights enshrined in the Constitution that can not be changed by a simple majority.
Americans do have the problem of the Judiciary ignoring very simple and clear rights such as the First Amendment. And often laws are not so clear cut so the Judiciary has to do some interpretation such as "What exactly does equal mean".
In my country the rights aren't so clear cut so the government can limit speech if it is considered in societies interest as a democratic and just society, so banning things like child porn is simpler but once again judges often make the final decision.
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What was the SAA crap? The first version of OS/2 I ran was the redbox Warp v3 that used my preexisting copy of Win3.1. Worked very well until MS broke it with WIN32s ver 1.30 and DLLs that were hardwired to load above 1GB.
OS/2 2.x+ ran most any DOS and 16bit Windows app fine (much better then NT and even Win95 unless booted to DOS). What it was missing was device drivers for much generic hardware and enough ram to run without swap file thrashing. Price was high as well, partially due to the price of the included Windows which seemed free to most users as it came with their computer and was easily pirated.
Windows 3.x could actually preemptively multitask, with all Win apps in one process and other DOS apps in separate processes. It was still crappy at it.
Even Win95 wasn't really a true OS as it still used DOS as the kernel though with the right hardware it used protected mode drivers instead of the DOS drivers.
Warp Connect (Warp v3+) that actually that shipped with a full networking stack. Warp v3 shipped with the IAK (Internet access kit) which had just enough of a network stack to allow dial-in to work. Only had SLIP at first while the refresh included PPP. Also had WebExplorer (along with a gopher client, usenet client and email client which used sendmail) which was mostly a big DLL so other apps could have a browser based UI. MS took this idea, and even the name, and used it for their GUI. Warp v3 was released in 1994.
Wasn't there some kind of licensing arrangement that allowed IBM to either use Microsoft libraries or else to have access to the APIs for 16-bit Windows, that did not extend to 32-bit Windows applications?
IBM had a license for Windows up to v4 and that is why Win95 was ver 4.095. Earlier when Win32s came out, it used a VBX (or whatever the device driver was called) that was unsupported by WINOS2 and IBM kept writing compatible device drivers to allow WIN32s apps to run. This ended with WIN32s ver 1.30 as at the time OS/2 only gave a process 512 MBs of address space and Microsoft hardwired some DLLs to load above 1GB. (It was possible to mix and match parts of WIN32s ver 1.25 and 1.30 to work around this). At this point IBM gave up the Win32s race.
OS/2 ver4 did include a subsystem to allow easy recompilation of WIN32 apps to OS/2 but it didn't really catch on as at that time Windows had clearly won the OS wars.
But yes, OS/2 could run multiple windows apps, each in its own process space and preemptively multitask them so they were less likely to run out of resources (DDE and the clipboard were shared) plus allow them to use the HPFS file system which was a much better file system the FAT which gave both DOS and Win apps an advantage.
Unluckily the Windows license also increased the price of OS/2 though they did come out with the redbox editions which used your existing Win3.x install.
Another huge factor was that the price of ram didn't decrease as predicted, likely due to uncompetitive measures by the ram manufacturers. Windows ran better in 4MBs (even 2MBs with Win3.0 in real mode) of ram then OS/2.
Bonus points when you execute the wrong person and the real murderer murders someone else so you can once again execute another wrong person. Rinse and repeat and you can kill a lot of people while feeling mortally superiour for legally murdering people. If you're really lucky society will tilt into full scale authoritarianism and you can kill people based on colour, race, religion or lots of other reasons and as it's all legal, you are still a law obeying upstanding citizen.
Is a pot smoker that much of a threat to society that they deserve locking up?
As for felons, the rest of the world solved that problem in the 19th and early 20th century by eliminating that class of person (excepting Nigeria). Only America practices segregation with ex-criminals by creating a whole new class of people without basic rights.
But the most effective way of doing that would be to make legal methods to obtain media more convenient than illegal methods (e.g. streaming services).
That's been happening as well. I understand that netflix_canada now actually has some good content, the media companies are trying to get into the streaming business and things like the CBC offer more and more streaming services.
Only CDs (and cassette tapes) in Canada so blank DVDs are cheaper then blank CDs. After they got the media levy on tapes and CDs the courts ruled that making personal copies of music is OK as we'd payed the levy and the media companies didn't try to get the levy expanded to DVDs (they did try for ipods and such)
In Canada the courts basically said that personal copying of music is legal due to the (audio) media levy. The media companies never did really try for a levy on video media as that would have made copying video legal so now a blank DVD is much cheaper then a blank CD.
Bill C-54, kind of a stronger version of the Patriot Act that allows all kinds of snooping in the name of "stopping the evil terrorists" and before that the law that they finally got passed on the pretext of stopping online bullying that forces ISPs to save data and pass it to the authorities when asked.
Which raises another question, are military pilots included in the general pilot category? You and some of the other posters are right about pilot being a fairly broad category which I didn't consider at first.
True that H2 is usually produced in a non-optimal way. The main point that I was making is it is possible to build an internal combustion engine with close to zero carbon emissions (some lube will leak into the combustion chamber). Maybe not currently practical but hydrogen can be produced in a non-carbon producing way, eg electrolysis using hydro, nuclear or even wind..
Well here many roads have electric trollies running up and down them instead of street cars, not too different. We also used to have an inter-urban tramway that was 50+ miles and if still functioning it would be an hour+ vs the 3 hours that commuting now takes as the other side of town is now about 50 miles away, and getting further as the price of housing continues to climb. With the cost of housing around here, the average person often has to spend a lot of time commuting.
The problem is "maximizing profits" at the expense of safety. We already had one town burn up due to cost savings from a railroad (eliminating the conductor and the engineer being too tired to set the correct number of hand brakes leading to the train rolling into town and blowing up) and numerous close calls.
As to other professions, there is quite a bit of evidence that Doctors make mistakes when on 24 hr shifts, and it seems that airplane pilot is the third deadliest occupation with 53.4 deaths per 100,000. Many jobs such as retail are not inherently dangerous and overworked employees will only hurt the bottom line of the company.
I care as a Canadian that it is hard to compete with an uneven playing field, drive 30 miles south and airlines flights are much cheaper which makes it hard for Canadian airlines to compete.
On topic, there is the question about infrastructure costs for railroads vs airlines. If one industry is getting subsidized they have an unfair advantage. Eg, it has been mentioned here that railroads get hit up for property taxes in quite a few counties in the States so if airports don't have to pay taxes/rent on land, that is an advantage. Rail is a very efficient form of transport and for passenger service should easily be able to compete with airlines over shorter routes where the time savings from flying don't exist or are very minimal (including travel to airport, going through all the stuff before boarding and the reverse at the end of the trip).
So American Airports/Airlines have to pay rent on the land? Pay for their security services (Homeland Security)? Put money aside for future improvements? Pay the full cost of traffic control?
Couple of articles comparing Canada vs the US, Google has lots more.
http://business.financialpost....
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
At one time there were rails in most cities and the negative part of capitalism helped get rid of them as GM and friends really wanted to build up its bus monopoly. To quote wiki,
Most companies involved were convicted in 1949 of conspiracy to monopolize interstate commerce in the sale of buses, fuel, and supplies to NCL subsidiaries, but were acquitted of conspiring to monopolize the transit industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Capitalism is a high stakes game and if you can get away with cheating, the rewards are large.
They also (at least in Canada) work horrible shifts including being almost permanently on call. Overtired engineers and conductors are a problem that the train companies aren't interested in fixing as they want to maximize profits.
This, and I'm sure the airlines would get along just fine without oil subsidies.
Not to mention the airports which all seem to be publicly funded.
Always surprises me that Aircraft pilots are so high on that list considering how safe air travel is. The rest make sense.
You are talking about one of many forms of socialism, I'm talking about a different form, one that predates Libertarian Capitalism and is the original form of Libertarianism. You're probably American where the brainwashing against socialism was/is very strong and even includes the corruption of Libertarianism into a weird capitalist form where power is concentrated in the wealthy instead of everyone being closer in economic and social status and therefore being able to share equally in liberty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...