You do realize that the habitable zone has been moving out over the life of the solar system? The Sun converts hydrogen to helium, helium is more dense, increasing the density of the Sun causing it to burn hotter. Estimates are that some billion years ago the Sun was 25% cooler which would have shrunk the habitable zone quite a bit, perhaps to the point where Venus was habitable. Also with the Sun getting hotter, in perhaps half a billion years the oceans will boil and the Earth will be much more similar to Venus.
Why would moving further from the Sun warm the oceans? During much of the Earths history the oceans have been close to 40 degrees (80% is what I've read) but since humans have evolved during the current cold period it is questionable if we can survive in a world where the oceans are a couple of degrees above body temperature. Dinosaurs seem to have done well though.
You also have to take into consideration that the Sun is getting hotter, estimates are that it has got at least 25% hotter over the course of the life of the Earth. This is due to the ratio of helium to hydrogen changing causing the Sun to become more dense and therefore burn hotter. Estimates are that in as little as 500 million years the Earth will have its oceans boil and we'll become much more similar to Venus. Then there are variations in the Earths orbit, variations in the layout of the continents as well as life itself. Photosynthesis surely lead to climate change and when those first forests grew without much to help them decompose there was massive amounts of carbon sequestration. One of the lucky coincidences of Earth is that it has been inhabitable over most of its existence. Another thing to consider is that the galaxy itself has habitable zone(s). Many stars have orbits that take them close to the core where radiation is much higher and the chances of a close enough encounter with another star to perturb planets orbit is much likelier. Same can be said about areas of the galaxy where massive star formation is happening.
While MADD started out by being against drunk driving, they've pretty well been taken over by complete abolitionists. Caffeine is like most forms of speed, take too much and you get jittery and start hallucinating. Having hallucinating drivers on the road can also be dangerous.
I'm in Canada too, though a different province. Hydro, auto-insurance and the liqueur stores all bring in lots of money for the government. At that it's starting to be a problem as the government has cut taxes back too far and now they're trying to replace that revenue by doing things like raise hydro rates. The problem is that private organizations give huge campaign contributions to push privatization, the government itself is pretty right wing and seems to believe that private is always better so the phone company, the gas company and almost the liqueur stores have been sold off. Also selling assets to quickly balance the budget in an election year seems to be a favorite. The liqueur stores are one example. Private and public pay the same wholesale by law yet the private stores charge about 20% more, pay their workers close to 50% less and only exist in profitable markets. They do have better hours and often fancier stores. The public liqueur stores put 100's of million dollars into the treasury and supports money losing stores in bumfuck nowhere with their profitable stores. Since the phone company was privatized, my phone bill has gone from $20 to $45, dial-up is $35 and after the last storm 6 weeks ago, my connection speed has dropped from a fairly consistent 28.8 to between 7200 and 19.2. Try using the internet at 7200 baud. Voice is also almost unusable due to the static. Their attitude is that as long as 911 works, they're not going to spend money splicing the line back together properly.
Would that work at 5% methane? Now for a boat cruising on a methane lake or river would work though getting your engine started at less than 100 K might be hard.
That's only true for businesses that have a low barrier to entry, those same businesses that are likely paying low enough wages that a tax cut isn't going to make much difference to the employees. For businesses with a high barrier to entry, good luck starting a competing business. Whether it's large amounts of infrastructure or the business has invested in paying off the government to erect artificial barriers, there are a lot of businesses that you can't just start your own and those that it is easy to enter are usually minimum profit businesses.
Interestingly that's the direction we're going here in BC. Pharmacists are getting more power to renew prescriptions and to suggest alternatives as our government has an interest in dropping the price of healthcare.
Yes, my examples were an over simplification meant to show it is much more complex then simply lower taxes are good. You're doing the same thing by claiming that higher taxes would result in less employment when it may just as easily result in the employer deciding that he'd rather hire an extra employee to bring his own tax burden down, employees being an expense. As the AC says, there may well be multiple ideal points on the Laffer Curve and they change.
Some of the rights the government restricts are not for the good of society. While I have a hard time thinking of cases where the government should restrict the type of plants you can grow, there are a few cases such as invasive weeds. What the government should be restricting is how you label those plants, no selling Jimsonweed as marijuana to stay on topic though there is endless kinds of mislabeling. There is also the question of whether the government should regulate where hemp and marijuana is grown. Haphazardly growing hemp (and I mean the varieties with close to zero THC) everywhere would harm anyone trying to grow marijuana due to the windblown pollen factor.
Government restricts lots of rights for the good of society and some people don't like that, feeling that their freedom is restricted. The most obvious restriction is the right to swing your fist, limited by government so that you can't swing your fist where someones face is occupying. There's lots of similar restrictions like going where you please, firing your weapon in a crowded place or even unsafely in an uncrowded place and so on.
Russia is building subs like crazy, building more nukes and various other weapon buildups. Look at some of the articles here, http://barentsobserver.com/en
IIRC, WW I saw Europe pretty evenly divided and for most of the war it was basically a draw. The invention of the tank and reinforcements from America tipped the balance at the end. WW II started with Greater Germany, Italy and the USSR on one side. Luckily Hitler was stupid, started the war almost a decade early (they had plans to build up till the late '40's then start the war) and turned against the USSR early.
The problem is that the Laffer Curve is such a simplification that it can be used to trick people to work against their best interests. Besides the points the sibling AC posted there are a couple of other points. With a drop in taxes why shouldn't your wage go down. You make $100,000 with a take home pay of $50,000. Taxes are reduced to zero. Your wage is cut back to $55,000. You should be happy as you're making $5000 more then previously and your employer is very happy as his profits have gone up by at least $45,000. That $55,000 goes way less far. As example instead of paying $100 towards road improvements a month, you now pay $200 in tolls a month along with all businesses paying more and passing those costs on. A population has to be pretty educated to understand these ramifications of moving left or right on the Laffer Curve.
That would be a good start along with the maximum transparency in government. Unluckily government is not very interested in actually restricting their money supply and retirement plans involving a cushy job and of course the hookers and blow is a nice perk.
Actually if Starbucks is big enough, they phone up their congress critters to send armed people to your house and demand that you pay them money, usually laundering it through the government so that your frustrations are aimed at the government instead of the puppet master. To be safe they also get their congress critter to pass some regulations to reduce competition and ideally they phone up the judge to remind him who paid for his election to make sure the trial turns out right if needed. America has the best government that money can buy.
The advocates of limited government can point out many historical examples of governments that went out of control (classic examples such as the Wiemar Republic under the Nazis). You on the other hand haven't pointed to one case of corporate overstep due to limited government, though I guess you do imply that somehow the LIBOR scandal is supposed to be such a case.
My view is that I'd love to live in a world where the greatest threat comes from business rather than government.
The best example of the damage that business can do is the United States of America's government. A government bought and paid for by businesses and other rich organizations that long ago subverted a strong constitution. When you can buy the law makers and the law deciders (judges) your business can out compete any other business. You end up with a huge government designed to allow businesses to grow. You get banks that are propped up by the government. Endless regulations to keep competition down. Endless spending so business doesn't have to do the spending and so on. Throw in ownership of the press and we get modern America and its big government. Inevitably this is the end of libertarianism. As long as government is for sale, it'll be bought and subverted.
I wonder if you had a pre-release or rc version or such? Warp V3 came with the bonus pack which included a cut down TCP/IP stack, just enough to enable dial-in with slip. Latrer media refreshes came with PPP. The bonus pack included WebExplorer as a browser, implemented mostly as a large DLL as the idea was that programs could use the HTML engine for various things. Microsoft took that idea and ran with it, even using a similar name. A newsreader client (NR2), a mail user program plus sendmail as a MTU and of course Gopher and a few other things like the usual command line utilities. NS 2.02 was planned to be on Warp V4 but wasn't ready so there was just an icon to download it with WebExplorer. Warp V3 was released in 1994 and V4 in '96 Could you have had a version of OS/2 server?
The sibling is right, the CD was not bootable. There is a program on it, loaddskf, which can be used to make floppies or IIRC you can point Virtualbox at the floppy images to boot. IIRC you need 3 floppies. Start with a small hd disk image as the s506 driver is limited to IIRC 5.4 GBs. To really be useful you will need to apply all the free fixes to bring it up to V4.5 level.
OS/2 never did have a port of Netscape 3, just 2.02 (with the 3 backend) and 4.61 (with the latest 4.7x fixes) there was briefly a 4.0.4 beta. Also you used Webexplorer to download Netscape. If you had Warp V4 updated to V4.5 you could be running Firefox etc, I'm posting this on OS/2 (installed in 1997) and SeaMonkey on as core2duo.
File size limit depends on the program and whether it uses signed or unsigned 32 bit structures. I just fired up File Manager on a 64 GB JFS partition. The bottom shows 2,097,120 KB free, 2,097,120 KB total and the largest file it displays is 2,146,765,824 bytes with 25 file(s) (-2,051,854,106 bytes). That just happens to be the largest file on that drive. Installers don't like too much free space either. This is WinOS2 which is basically Win 3.1+ with special video driver running on OS/2 kernel.
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You do realize that the habitable zone has been moving out over the life of the solar system? The Sun converts hydrogen to helium, helium is more dense, increasing the density of the Sun causing it to burn hotter. Estimates are that some billion years ago the Sun was 25% cooler which would have shrunk the habitable zone quite a bit, perhaps to the point where Venus was habitable. Also with the Sun getting hotter, in perhaps half a billion years the oceans will boil and the Earth will be much more similar to Venus.
Why would moving further from the Sun warm the oceans? During much of the Earths history the oceans have been close to 40 degrees (80% is what I've read) but since humans have evolved during the current cold period it is questionable if we can survive in a world where the oceans are a couple of degrees above body temperature. Dinosaurs seem to have done well though.
You also have to take into consideration that the Sun is getting hotter, estimates are that it has got at least 25% hotter over the course of the life of the Earth. This is due to the ratio of helium to hydrogen changing causing the Sun to become more dense and therefore burn hotter. Estimates are that in as little as 500 million years the Earth will have its oceans boil and we'll become much more similar to Venus.
Then there are variations in the Earths orbit, variations in the layout of the continents as well as life itself. Photosynthesis surely lead to climate change and when those first forests grew without much to help them decompose there was massive amounts of carbon sequestration.
One of the lucky coincidences of Earth is that it has been inhabitable over most of its existence.
Another thing to consider is that the galaxy itself has habitable zone(s). Many stars have orbits that take them close to the core where radiation is much higher and the chances of a close enough encounter with another star to perturb planets orbit is much likelier. Same can be said about areas of the galaxy where massive star formation is happening.
While MADD started out by being against drunk driving, they've pretty well been taken over by complete abolitionists.
Caffeine is like most forms of speed, take too much and you get jittery and start hallucinating. Having hallucinating drivers on the road can also be dangerous.
I'm in Canada too, though a different province. Hydro, auto-insurance and the liqueur stores all bring in lots of money for the government. At that it's starting to be a problem as the government has cut taxes back too far and now they're trying to replace that revenue by doing things like raise hydro rates.
The problem is that private organizations give huge campaign contributions to push privatization, the government itself is pretty right wing and seems to believe that private is always better so the phone company, the gas company and almost the liqueur stores have been sold off. Also selling assets to quickly balance the budget in an election year seems to be a favorite.
The liqueur stores are one example. Private and public pay the same wholesale by law yet the private stores charge about 20% more, pay their workers close to 50% less and only exist in profitable markets. They do have better hours and often fancier stores. The public liqueur stores put 100's of million dollars into the treasury and supports money losing stores in bumfuck nowhere with their profitable stores.
Since the phone company was privatized, my phone bill has gone from $20 to $45, dial-up is $35 and after the last storm 6 weeks ago, my connection speed has dropped from a fairly consistent 28.8 to between 7200 and 19.2. Try using the internet at 7200 baud. Voice is also almost unusable due to the static. Their attitude is that as long as 911 works, they're not going to spend money splicing the line back together properly.
Would that work at 5% methane? Now for a boat cruising on a methane lake or river would work though getting your engine started at less than 100 K might be hard.
That's only true for businesses that have a low barrier to entry, those same businesses that are likely paying low enough wages that a tax cut isn't going to make much difference to the employees.
For businesses with a high barrier to entry, good luck starting a competing business. Whether it's large amounts of infrastructure or the business has invested in paying off the government to erect artificial barriers, there are a lot of businesses that you can't just start your own and those that it is easy to enter are usually minimum profit businesses.
Interestingly that's the direction we're going here in BC. Pharmacists are getting more power to renew prescriptions and to suggest alternatives as our government has an interest in dropping the price of healthcare.
Yes, my examples were an over simplification meant to show it is much more complex then simply lower taxes are good. You're doing the same thing by claiming that higher taxes would result in less employment when it may just as easily result in the employer deciding that he'd rather hire an extra employee to bring his own tax burden down, employees being an expense.
As the AC says, there may well be multiple ideal points on the Laffer Curve and they change.
Some of the rights the government restricts are not for the good of society. While I have a hard time thinking of cases where the government should restrict the type of plants you can grow, there are a few cases such as invasive weeds. What the government should be restricting is how you label those plants, no selling Jimsonweed as marijuana to stay on topic though there is endless kinds of mislabeling.
There is also the question of whether the government should regulate where hemp and marijuana is grown. Haphazardly growing hemp (and I mean the varieties with close to zero THC) everywhere would harm anyone trying to grow marijuana due to the windblown pollen factor.
Government restricts lots of rights for the good of society and some people don't like that, feeling that their freedom is restricted. The most obvious restriction is the right to swing your fist, limited by government so that you can't swing your fist where someones face is occupying. There's lots of similar restrictions like going where you please, firing your weapon in a crowded place or even unsafely in an uncrowded place and so on.
Russia is building subs like crazy, building more nukes and various other weapon buildups. Look at some of the articles here, http://barentsobserver.com/en
IIRC, WW I saw Europe pretty evenly divided and for most of the war it was basically a draw. The invention of the tank and reinforcements from America tipped the balance at the end.
WW II started with Greater Germany, Italy and the USSR on one side. Luckily Hitler was stupid, started the war almost a decade early (they had plans to build up till the late '40's then start the war) and turned against the USSR early.
The problem is that the Laffer Curve is such a simplification that it can be used to trick people to work against their best interests. Besides the points the sibling AC posted there are a couple of other points.
With a drop in taxes why shouldn't your wage go down. You make $100,000 with a take home pay of $50,000. Taxes are reduced to zero. Your wage is cut back to $55,000. You should be happy as you're making $5000 more then previously and your employer is very happy as his profits have gone up by at least $45,000.
That $55,000 goes way less far. As example instead of paying $100 towards road improvements a month, you now pay $200 in tolls a month along with all businesses paying more and passing those costs on.
A population has to be pretty educated to understand these ramifications of moving left or right on the Laffer Curve.
That would be a good start along with the maximum transparency in government. Unluckily government is not very interested in actually restricting their money supply and retirement plans involving a cushy job and of course the hookers and blow is a nice perk.
Hadn't they issued way more dollars then they had gold? Something about expanding the economy during the '20's so the rich could get richer?
Actually if Starbucks is big enough, they phone up their congress critters to send armed people to your house and demand that you pay them money, usually laundering it through the government so that your frustrations are aimed at the government instead of the puppet master. To be safe they also get their congress critter to pass some regulations to reduce competition and ideally they phone up the judge to remind him who paid for his election to make sure the trial turns out right if needed.
America has the best government that money can buy.
The advocates of limited government can point out many historical examples of governments that went out of control (classic examples such as the Wiemar Republic under the Nazis). You on the other hand haven't pointed to one case of corporate overstep due to limited government, though I guess you do imply that somehow the LIBOR scandal is supposed to be such a case.
My view is that I'd love to live in a world where the greatest threat comes from business rather than government.
The best example of the damage that business can do is the United States of America's government. A government bought and paid for by businesses and other rich organizations that long ago subverted a strong constitution.
When you can buy the law makers and the law deciders (judges) your business can out compete any other business. You end up with a huge government designed to allow businesses to grow. You get banks that are propped up by the government. Endless regulations to keep competition down. Endless spending so business doesn't have to do the spending and so on. Throw in ownership of the press and we get modern America and its big government.
Inevitably this is the end of libertarianism. As long as government is for sale, it'll be bought and subverted.
I wonder if you had a pre-release or rc version or such? Warp V3 came with the bonus pack which included a cut down TCP/IP stack, just enough to enable dial-in with slip. Latrer media refreshes came with PPP. The bonus pack included WebExplorer as a browser, implemented mostly as a large DLL as the idea was that programs could use the HTML engine for various things. Microsoft took that idea and ran with it, even using a similar name. A newsreader client (NR2), a mail user program plus sendmail as a MTU and of course Gopher and a few other things like the usual command line utilities.
NS 2.02 was planned to be on Warp V4 but wasn't ready so there was just an icon to download it with WebExplorer.
Warp V3 was released in 1994 and V4 in '96
Could you have had a version of OS/2 server?
Try the install disks here, http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS002748. They say they're for Thinkpads but work on most newer hardware. IIRC they're self-extracting zip files.
Here is a site with lots of links, some don't exist anymore but it'll give you a start for googling. http://web.archive.org/web/20060926004818/www.warpupdates.mynetcologne.de/english/site_contents.html
The sibling is right, the CD was not bootable. There is a program on it, loaddskf, which can be used to make floppies or IIRC you can point Virtualbox at the floppy images to boot. IIRC you need 3 floppies. Start with a small hd disk image as the s506 driver is limited to IIRC 5.4 GBs.
To really be useful you will need to apply all the free fixes to bring it up to V4.5 level.
The problem is that it uses RING 1 to run DOS device drivers. VirtualBox was written to run OS/2 and some versions of qemu will run it.
OS/2 never did have a port of Netscape 3, just 2.02 (with the 3 backend) and 4.61 (with the latest 4.7x fixes) there was briefly a 4.0.4 beta. Also you used Webexplorer to download Netscape.
If you had Warp V4 updated to V4.5 you could be running Firefox etc, I'm posting this on OS/2 (installed in 1997) and SeaMonkey on as core2duo.
On a 1 GB system, with DPMI cranked to the max of 512 MB, the Progman about box shows 133,847 KB free memory.
File size limit depends on the program and whether it uses signed or unsigned 32 bit structures.
I just fired up File Manager on a 64 GB JFS partition. The bottom shows 2,097,120 KB free, 2,097,120 KB total and the largest file it displays is 2,146,765,824 bytes with 25 file(s) (-2,051,854,106 bytes). That just happens to be the largest file on that drive. Installers don't like too much free space either.
This is WinOS2 which is basically Win 3.1+ with special video driver running on OS/2 kernel.