America and the Soviet Union agreed that each could protect one target. The Soviets decided to protect their largest population centre and America planned to protect N. Dakota but never bothered. Note the key word agreement.
As long as they follow the first amendment, which I note has no exceptions for national security including enforcing keeping secrets. Of course if it was important I'm sure the constitution would be amended so congress could make laws limiting speech. It's funny how the people who most go on about following the constitution are often the quickest to break it.
They disclose many of the anti-counterfeiting techniques, especially the obvious ones like the new hundred I just got. Hard to hide that it is plastic, has holograms and even a transparent window on it. The idea is as much to discourage people from even trying to counterfeit as well as catching them.
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I thought VMWare supported OS/2 now, though unofficial. You do need hardware virtual support though. http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/IBMOS_2_Warp_4.html The x86 feature that OS/2 uses is running some stuff in ring 2, which is how DOS drivers can work under OS/2. Every other operating system just uses ring 0 and ring 3, which is compatible across architectures.
If America has a civil war, it'll be between Republicans and Democrats, not citizens and the government. It's amazing how polarized American politics is, especially considering how similar the two parties actually are.
The Somali pirates quite likely consider themselves to be freedom fighters. Due to the lack of an effective government Somalia is abused by foreign powers, their fishery is being stolen and their coast is used for dumping toxic crap so they fight back the only way they can.
Originally the terms were first world for those allied with the west, mostly N. America and Western Europe. Second world for those aligned with the east, mostly Eastern Europe, a good chunk of Asia and a few scattered places like Cuba. The third world was everyone else. As third world nations were typically poor and undeveloped the term came to mean poor and undeveloped or just starting to develop. Nothing derogatory in the labeling, at least originally.
I take it you're not a farmer or even a gardener. When a weed is crowding out your crop it is definitely a pest. Some weeds are considered such pests that legally you have to kill them, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noxious_weeds
Wiki is wrong. My source is the BC Pesticide Applicators Manual which I had to learn years back when I was a licensed pesticide applicator (forestry). And of course the sibling post has other references.
LD50 has never been a very good method of judging toxicity. LD50 is traditionally measured by feeding rats the chemical until 50% die. Edge cases include where 45% die at low doses but the other 55% take a lot higher dose to kill and cases where the majority get sick at a low dose but don't actually die until the dose is increased by a large amount. Then there is LC50, chemicals that barely affect mammals but are quite toxic to fish. In this case LC means liquid concentration. Amphibians are also often much more sensitive to certain pesticides including IIRC glyphosate (roundup). They also don't usually measure the effects of other common ingredients in pesticides such as the surfactants used to make them stick to the plant.
It's not about HFCS directly. It's the fact that is has trace amounts of a pesticide in it - pesticide that's intended to kill insects!
To be more exact, the type of pesticide is insecticide. Pesticides also include herbicides, fungicides, avacides (birds), rodenticides, nematodacides, bactericides amongst others. (spelling may be slighty off as it's been over 30 years since I studied this and SeaMonkey's spell checker doesn't know most of these terms). Unfortunately bees are quite sensitive to many insecticides so an amount of insecticide that is needed to be effective against insects that have been developing resistance for many generations is very likely to be toxic to bees.
Herbicide is a subset of pesticide so you're kind of right, just getting mixed up between different types of pesticide. The correct way to state it would be "Monsanto's corn is resistant to some types of herbicide, not insecticides"
Article is about Canada, even worse ISPs then the States and no Amazon video, minimal Netflix, shit even YouTube blocks stuff. Seems the copyright holders don't want to make money by expending into other markets.
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Serenity Systems, who put out eCS, is sponsoring the port and the code is getting committed into the main OpenOffice repository. Installing Warp v4 directly onto modern hardware would be very difficult. It could be installed onto older hardware or perhaps better a virtual machine, updated, and cloned onto modern hardware. There are still many missing pieces for a good experience. Video would have to use gengradd, basically VESA and depending on the actual video card you might get the right resolution for a new LCD monitor or yu might not. The AHCI driver is a work in process but is GPL so unofficial builds are available or SATA needs to be run in compatible mode as only SATA 1 and 2 is supported. Very few network drivers available as well. Sound should work as it is based on ALSA. And Warp 4 is missing ACPI support so you still need a motherboard that supports legacy mode and good luck getting more then one core to work. Best is just to install it to virtual box and run it from there. One developer reported that on his brand new, top of the line system, that while eCS worked on it, he got 3 times the compile speed running it on vbox under Ubuntu. Of course with slightly older hardware you can have a nice Warp v4.5 system. Now if you want to use it on a couple of year old system with a slightly older video card you might have better luck.
Did you miss the part about needing a new Constitution?
BTW, direct election of Senators is a bad thing, not a good one. Making them popularly elected makes them subject to the short-term whims of the populace, which is exactly why the founders separated them into two houses in the first place; they were supposed to have a moderating effect on Congress, by being appointed by State legislatures (which, in turn, are popularly elected).
Having an unelected upper house is important, which is why your founders tried the idea of the State governments appointing them. Unluckily it didn't work too well so popular vote was tried. It doesn't work either so how to appoint a house of government? I've thought of a lottery but the people you most want don't have time to serve.
Also, I don't believe slavery is addressed in the Constitution (except the Amendment which prohibits it). Which again shows why we just need to scrap the whole thing and start over with a fresh document, instead of adding patches to the old one and constantly arguing about 225-year-old verbage. It's like having a boat that's full of holes that you keep patching; at some point, you just need to scrap it and build yourself a new boat.
There's that part about certain people only counting as 3/5ths of a person when figuring out how the House of Representatives should be apportioned. The problem with a new constitution is that rights will be a lot more watered down then what you now have. Look at any nations Constitution that was written in the 60 years. Canada's for example has a really good core surrounded by weasel words with the outstanding clause the most weaselly. A right can be suspended by parliament or provincial legislature for up to 5 years. It is politically expensive but in the right circumstance any freedom can be taken. So far it has only been used by Quebec to limit free speech in the form of having a dominant sign that is not in French.
Really? We can ban religions other than Christianity? We can jail people for apostasy? I bet that's news to the Christian Cabal that just watched the ban on homosexuals serving in the military to get lifted. Having a religious people, and certain laws influenced by religious tradition, is not the same thing as a theocratic state.
Try to find God through his plants like many a person throughout history has and see how fast you are thrown into jail.
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OpenOffice once again supports OS/2 due to the work of a couple of developers. LibreOffice sadly removed OS/2 support recently though. We also have JFS instead of HPFS386 which is even faster in most cases and it comes with a LVM so you can assign any drive letter to any partition you want and JFS volumes can span partitions. JFS also supports files greater then 2GB and very large partitions, 2 TB is the current limitation of the S506 driver, 512 GB if you want it compatible to other systems or for booting. Linux JFS is a fork of OS/2 JFS. Sadly IBM never opened up the OS/2 JFS excepting what they gave to Linux
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Actually in practice it was 512MB for the kernel and 512MB per process minus shared memory. Firefox started to really have a hard time running in about 350 MBs so we moved most of it into high memory which the desktop started to support with FixPak 13, which was the one where they unified the desktop and server kernels in favour of the server. (Fixpak 15 before it was really stable) At this point in time you really need Warp v4 with all the free fixes to run on modern hardware or even a P4. Better to have the convenience pack or eCS.
In 1907, AT&T president Theodore Vail made it known that he was pursuing a goal of "One Policy, One System, Universal Service." AT&T began purchasing competitors, which attracted the attention of antitrust regulators. To avoid antitrust action, in a deal with the government, Vail agreed to the Kingsbury Commitment of 1913. One of the three terms of the agreement forbade AT&T from acquiring any more independent phone companies without the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission.[5]
They were well on their way to monopoly when the government got involved and if there had been no government involvement they would have owned the vast majority of the telephone infrastructure and could have just refused to inter-operate with any competitors which would have raised the bar pretty high for any other competitor.
The problem was that AT&T had years to build up all the trunk and didn't let anyone they didn't like connect to it. Perhaps some entrepreneur would have had enough money to acquire different rights of way and run wire everywhere but it would be a huge barrier to entry and until they had installed separate wires in enough of a portion of the country they would not be profitable. Who wants to use a phone that can't connect with the majority of other phones? It would also be a pretty good guess that AT&T would continue acquiring key patents so eg when technology had advanced enough to allow affordable cell service AT&T would own enough of the patents to also get into the market first. Imagine the current cell industry if networks couldn't interconnect. Would you buy a phone that could only connect to a few people? Perhaps have a dozen phones so you can phone anyone you want? Without regulation companies don't have to let you on their network so they could ban any phone that allowed connecting to different networks.
I think the PM add on also worked on W2K. Most of the rest of the OS/2 subsystem did. Somewhere I have a BYTE which has a little article about Microsoft getting the 32 bit Presentation Manager running on NT, probably v4. They were ready for OS/2 winning the desktop wars.
Around about '96 or '97 one hell of a lot of serious OS/2 users left for NT v4. Most people who wanted to seriously use their computers did not use Win95, at least not for long. Whereas NT was fairly stable and looked like it would be supported for a long time. Most casual users did move to '95 and like my Mom, blamed themselves when '95 crashed. I know when I tried '95, it was like a bad ripoff of OS/2 that looked pretty but had many more limitations. It didn't even run that many DOS applications unless you rebooted into DOS 7 which was something that OS/2 v4 was capable of too excepting it was PC-DOS 7 instead of MS-DOS 7.
The OS/2 subsystem would run any 16bit OS/2 text mode application that didn't directly access memory or I/O ports, including directly manipulating video. With the purchase of the Windows NT Add-On Subsystem for Presentation Manager it would run most all 16 bit OS/2 programs unless they accessed I/O ports etc. An OS/2 program running on NT could call any win32 DLL,
Calling 32-bit DLLs
The OS/2 subsystem provides a general mechanism to allow 16-bit OS/2 and PM applications to load and call any Win32 DLL. This feature could be extremely useful in the following cases:
When you need to call from your OS/2 application some functionality available under Windows NT only as Win32 code.
Without the ability to call Win32 DLLs, the alternative would be to split the application into an OS/2 application and a Win32 application, then communicate between them using, for example, named pipes. This would be much more complicated to implement and may not yield a good performance.
When you want to port your OS/2 application to Win32 but would like to do so in stages, by porting only part of the application at first.
A small set of new APIs is provided. See "Win32 Thunking Mechanism" later in this chapter.
The 16 bit Presentation Manager API was supported if you payed extra. See http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windowsnt/4/workstation/reskit/en-us/os2comp.mspx scroll down a bit to unsupported applications where it says Presentation Manager (PM) applications (unless you install the Windows NT Add-On Subsystem for Presentation Manager, which can be ordered separately from Microsoft)
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America and the Soviet Union agreed that each could protect one target. The Soviets decided to protect their largest population centre and America planned to protect N. Dakota but never bothered. Note the key word agreement.
As long as they follow the first amendment, which I note has no exceptions for national security including enforcing keeping secrets.
Of course if it was important I'm sure the constitution would be amended so congress could make laws limiting speech.
It's funny how the people who most go on about following the constitution are often the quickest to break it.
They disclose many of the anti-counterfeiting techniques, especially the obvious ones like the new hundred I just got. Hard to hide that it is plastic, has holograms and even a transparent window on it. The idea is as much to discourage people from even trying to counterfeit as well as catching them.
I thought VMWare supported OS/2 now, though unofficial. You do need hardware virtual support though. http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/IBMOS_2_Warp_4.html
The x86 feature that OS/2 uses is running some stuff in ring 2, which is how DOS drivers can work under OS/2. Every other operating system just uses ring 0 and ring 3, which is compatible across architectures.
If America has a civil war, it'll be between Republicans and Democrats, not citizens and the government. It's amazing how polarized American politics is, especially considering how similar the two parties actually are.
The Somali pirates quite likely consider themselves to be freedom fighters. Due to the lack of an effective government Somalia is abused by foreign powers, their fishery is being stolen and their coast is used for dumping toxic crap so they fight back the only way they can.
Originally the terms were first world for those allied with the west, mostly N. America and Western Europe. Second world for those aligned with the east, mostly Eastern Europe, a good chunk of Asia and a few scattered places like Cuba. The third world was everyone else. As third world nations were typically poor and undeveloped the term came to mean poor and undeveloped or just starting to develop. Nothing derogatory in the labeling, at least originally.
I take it you're not a farmer or even a gardener. When a weed is crowding out your crop it is definitely a pest. Some weeds are considered such pests that legally you have to kill them, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noxious_weeds
Wiki is wrong. My source is the BC Pesticide Applicators Manual which I had to learn years back when I was a licensed pesticide applicator (forestry). And of course the sibling post has other references.
Roundup is a pesticide, kills pesty plants. The word you're looking for is insecticide, another type of pesticide. Pesticide is very general term.
LD50 has never been a very good method of judging toxicity. LD50 is traditionally measured by feeding rats the chemical until 50% die. Edge cases include where 45% die at low doses but the other 55% take a lot higher dose to kill and cases where the majority get sick at a low dose but don't actually die until the dose is increased by a large amount.
Then there is LC50, chemicals that barely affect mammals but are quite toxic to fish. In this case LC means liquid concentration. Amphibians are also often much more sensitive to certain pesticides including IIRC glyphosate (roundup).
They also don't usually measure the effects of other common ingredients in pesticides such as the surfactants used to make them stick to the plant.
It's not about HFCS directly. It's the fact that is has trace amounts of a pesticide in it - pesticide that's intended to kill insects!
To be more exact, the type of pesticide is insecticide. Pesticides also include herbicides, fungicides, avacides (birds), rodenticides, nematodacides, bactericides amongst others. (spelling may be slighty off as it's been over 30 years since I studied this and SeaMonkey's spell checker doesn't know most of these terms).
Unfortunately bees are quite sensitive to many insecticides so an amount of insecticide that is needed to be effective against insects that have been developing resistance for many generations is very likely to be toxic to bees.
Herbicide is a subset of pesticide so you're kind of right, just getting mixed up between different types of pesticide. The correct way to state it would be "Monsanto's corn is resistant to some types of herbicide, not insecticides"
Article is about Canada, even worse ISPs then the States and no Amazon video, minimal Netflix, shit even YouTube blocks stuff. Seems the copyright holders don't want to make money by expending into other markets.
Serenity Systems, who put out eCS, is sponsoring the port and the code is getting committed into the main OpenOffice repository.
Installing Warp v4 directly onto modern hardware would be very difficult. It could be installed onto older hardware or perhaps better a virtual machine, updated, and cloned onto modern hardware. There are still many missing pieces for a good experience. Video would have to use gengradd, basically VESA and depending on the actual video card you might get the right resolution for a new LCD monitor or yu might not. The AHCI driver is a work in process but is GPL so unofficial builds are available or SATA needs to be run in compatible mode as only SATA 1 and 2 is supported. Very few network drivers available as well. Sound should work as it is based on ALSA. And Warp 4 is missing ACPI support so you still need a motherboard that supports legacy mode and good luck getting more then one core to work.
Best is just to install it to virtual box and run it from there. One developer reported that on his brand new, top of the line system, that while eCS worked on it, he got 3 times the compile speed running it on vbox under Ubuntu. Of course with slightly older hardware you can have a nice Warp v4.5 system.
Now if you want to use it on a couple of year old system with a slightly older video card you might have better luck.
Did you miss the part about needing a new Constitution?
BTW, direct election of Senators is a bad thing, not a good one. Making them popularly elected makes them subject to the short-term whims of the populace, which is exactly why the founders separated them into two houses in the first place; they were supposed to have a moderating effect on Congress, by being appointed by State legislatures (which, in turn, are popularly elected).
Having an unelected upper house is important, which is why your founders tried the idea of the State governments appointing them. Unluckily it didn't work too well so popular vote was tried. It doesn't work either so how to appoint a house of government? I've thought of a lottery but the people you most want don't have time to serve.
Also, I don't believe slavery is addressed in the Constitution (except the Amendment which prohibits it). Which again shows why we just need to scrap the whole thing and start over with a fresh document, instead of adding patches to the old one and constantly arguing about 225-year-old verbage. It's like having a boat that's full of holes that you keep patching; at some point, you just need to scrap it and build yourself a new boat.
There's that part about certain people only counting as 3/5ths of a person when figuring out how the House of Representatives should be apportioned.
The problem with a new constitution is that rights will be a lot more watered down then what you now have. Look at any nations Constitution that was written in the 60 years. Canada's for example has a really good core surrounded by weasel words with the outstanding clause the most weaselly. A right can be suspended by parliament or provincial legislature for up to 5 years. It is politically expensive but in the right circumstance any freedom can be taken. So far it has only been used by Quebec to limit free speech in the form of having a dominant sign that is not in French.
Really? We can ban religions other than Christianity? We can jail people for apostasy? I bet that's news to the Christian Cabal that just watched the ban on homosexuals serving in the military to get lifted. Having a religious people, and certain laws influenced by religious tradition, is not the same thing as a theocratic state.
Try to find God through his plants like many a person throughout history has and see how fast you are thrown into jail.
OpenOffice once again supports OS/2 due to the work of a couple of developers. LibreOffice sadly removed OS/2 support recently though.
We also have JFS instead of HPFS386 which is even faster in most cases and it comes with a LVM so you can assign any drive letter to any partition you want and JFS volumes can span partitions. JFS also supports files greater then 2GB and very large partitions, 2 TB is the current limitation of the S506 driver, 512 GB if you want it compatible to other systems or for booting.
Linux JFS is a fork of OS/2 JFS. Sadly IBM never opened up the OS/2 JFS excepting what they gave to Linux
Actually in practice it was 512MB for the kernel and 512MB per process minus shared memory. Firefox started to really have a hard time running in about 350 MBs so we moved most of it into high memory which the desktop started to support with FixPak 13, which was the one where they unified the desktop and server kernels in favour of the server. (Fixpak 15 before it was really stable)
At this point in time you really need Warp v4 with all the free fixes to run on modern hardware or even a P4. Better to have the convenience pack or eCS.
Read the rest of the paragraph.
In 1907, AT&T president Theodore Vail made it known that he was pursuing a goal of "One Policy, One System, Universal Service." AT&T began purchasing competitors, which attracted the attention of antitrust regulators. To avoid antitrust action, in a deal with the government, Vail agreed to the Kingsbury Commitment of 1913. One of the three terms of the agreement forbade AT&T from acquiring any more independent phone companies without the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission.[5]
They were well on their way to monopoly when the government got involved and if there had been no government involvement they would have owned the vast majority of the telephone infrastructure and could have just refused to inter-operate with any competitors which would have raised the bar pretty high for any other competitor.
The problem was that AT&T had years to build up all the trunk and didn't let anyone they didn't like connect to it. Perhaps some entrepreneur would have had enough money to acquire different rights of way and run wire everywhere but it would be a huge barrier to entry and until they had installed separate wires in enough of a portion of the country they would not be profitable. Who wants to use a phone that can't connect with the majority of other phones?
It would also be a pretty good guess that AT&T would continue acquiring key patents so eg when technology had advanced enough to allow affordable cell service AT&T would own enough of the patents to also get into the market first.
Imagine the current cell industry if networks couldn't interconnect. Would you buy a phone that could only connect to a few people? Perhaps have a dozen phones so you can phone anyone you want? Without regulation companies don't have to let you on their network so they could ban any phone that allowed connecting to different networks.
I think the PM add on also worked on W2K. Most of the rest of the OS/2 subsystem did. Somewhere I have a BYTE which has a little article about Microsoft getting the 32 bit Presentation Manager running on NT, probably v4. They were ready for OS/2 winning the desktop wars.
Around about '96 or '97 one hell of a lot of serious OS/2 users left for NT v4. Most people who wanted to seriously use their computers did not use Win95, at least not for long. Whereas NT was fairly stable and looked like it would be supported for a long time.
Most casual users did move to '95 and like my Mom, blamed themselves when '95 crashed. I know when I tried '95, it was like a bad ripoff of OS/2 that looked pretty but had many more limitations. It didn't even run that many DOS applications unless you rebooted into DOS 7 which was something that OS/2 v4 was capable of too excepting it was PC-DOS 7 instead of MS-DOS 7.
The OS/2 subsystem would run any 16bit OS/2 text mode application that didn't directly access memory or I/O ports, including directly manipulating video. With the purchase of the Windows NT Add-On Subsystem for Presentation Manager it would run most all 16 bit OS/2 programs unless they accessed I/O ports etc.
An OS/2 program running on NT could call any win32 DLL,
Calling 32-bit DLLs
The OS/2 subsystem provides a general mechanism to allow 16-bit OS/2 and PM applications to load and call any Win32 DLL. This feature could be extremely useful in the following cases:
When you need to call from your OS/2 application some functionality available under Windows NT only as Win32 code.
Without the ability to call Win32 DLLs, the alternative would be to split the application into an OS/2 application and a Win32 application, then communicate between them using, for example, named pipes. This would be much more complicated to implement and may not yield a good performance.
When you want to port your OS/2 application to Win32 but would like to do so in stages, by porting only part of the application at first.
A small set of new APIs is provided. See "Win32 Thunking Mechanism" later in this chapter.
Quoting the thunking mechanism would be a bit big for this post but you can read about it and the above at http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windowsnt/4/workstation/reskit/en-us/os2comp.mspx
And lastly, IBM couldn't sue Microsoft about similarities between NT and OS/2 as OS/2 was jointly owned and Microsoft got V3 (NT) in the divorce.
The 16 bit Presentation Manager API was supported if you payed extra. See http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windowsnt/4/workstation/reskit/en-us/os2comp.mspx scroll down a bit to unsupported applications where it says Presentation Manager (PM) applications (unless you install the Windows NT Add-On Subsystem for Presentation Manager, which can be ordered separately from Microsoft)