Back in the OS/2 1.x days, MS wanted to put the graphics stuff in ring 0, IBM flatly refused, which was one of the many reasons for the falling out between them. OS/2 did its font parsing in user land with a DLL that was easily replaced with Freetype which was quite an improvement.
Still this is the way socialism should work. Companies owned by their members/customer/employee. The governments job is to ensure a level playing field and the companies looking out for for real owners, members/customers/employees. A little harder to raise money, but that can be a good thing as they'll be more thoughtful about how it is spent. It always amazes me how Americans have been convinced that socialism is about big government when really it is about the average person being involved instead of the 1% manipulating everything so they can become the 0.5%. In an ideal world, which unluckily doesn't exist, socialism would lead to communism, where there is no government. Just average people running things. It's a shame that human nature doesn't work logically.
I'm in Canada and self-employed. Most weeks I deposit some cheques into my credit union. Also all the credit unions, at least in BC, have banded together for purposes like sharing ATM machines which means I can deposit cheques in any credit union ATM or withdraw money without fees.
You're forgetting part of the story, namely how in 1919 or slightly earlier (decision came down in 1919) the stockholders in the persons of the Dodge brothers sued the Ford motor car company for not maximizing share holder value. And won. Ford did manage to buy back all the shares of his company and continue treating his workers good even if it lowered shareholder value as he was the only shareholder. How many other companies can do this without the courts ordering them to pay the profits to the shareholders instead of sharing with the workers. Basically no public company, just private.
Were there victorious revolutionaries who pushed due process in the United States of Mexico, the country the thread is about? And if you're talking about the United States of America, the revolutionaries were amongst other things, pissed off because they were getting deprived of their rights as English men. Rights that were spelt out in various English laws including the Magna Carta and common law.
Reading your post my thought was that the FBI agents were bullshitting you about "lying to a federal officer can get you N years in jail, etc etc" as cops like to lie. Unbelievably America actually has a law against lying to a federal officer, not lying to obstruct justice or commit fraud but just lying. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_false_statements
The thing with methane is that it breaks down fairly quickly so it is mostly a short term problem. Here in BC the local natural gas company (Fortis) keeps advertising how they capture a lot of methane and mix it with natural gas to be burned for heat. I haven't researched it but if true it is an equally good way to dispose of methane. Also gives them carbon credits to offset the carbon tax we have here now.
They surely do. They would only be a natural part of the carbon cycle if they existed in sustainable numbers.
Which raises the question, how does the number of animals raised for food compare to previous populations? For example there were one fuck of a lot of Bison in North America at one time which have been replaced by cows. I don't know the numbers or whether Bison expel similar amounts of methane but I wouldn't be surprised if the number is similar. Other parts of the world are similar, lots of native herbivores replaced by people and their livestock.
Due process exist for a very good reason, laws were not written by tree hugging hippies, they were wrote by victorious revolutionaries that put their life in the line to make a better society.
First time I've heard the Barons of the early 14th century called victorious revolutionaries who put their life on the line (King John was pretty unpopular and didn't have much power at the time) as that is when due process was first put down on a piece of paper called the Magna Carta and stating that all free men have the right to not be punished except through the law of the land.
I am pretty sure that most Catholics would say the worship God and revere Mary but again I am just guessing. Actions speak louder then words and quite a few Catholics act as if they worship Mary. This isn't surprising as the Judea-Christian religions are severely lacking a female side to their God.
How so? WWI you joined very late in the game, after millions had been killed, leaving you as the only power who hadn't had pretty well a whole generation where the best had died. WWII you had a choice of surrendering or getting involved after Germany declared war on you. It was easy to help as you had just about the only functioning industrial base at that time and couldn't very well continue selling stuff to Germany after they'd declared war on you and it was the Russians who made the real sacrifices to win the war. The Marshall plan was probably guilt driven after the demands that you made on the English to dismantle their industry in return for loans combined with fear about the Russians who you had witnessed being willing to make sacrifices to win the war. America did pretty well out of the wars, much better then any one else.
What does Maryland have to do with religion? I guess you could argue that her husband thought he derived his power from God but considering he lost his head over that argument I don't see how Henrietta Maria of France is related to religion.
Actually pulp paper which Hearst had heavily invested in. Also there were a lot of government people looking for a replacement for prohibition, from g-man to narc.
Unless, of course, you lose money, because there is always risk involved
The problem is there is a large proportion of the super rich where there is no risk involved. They screw up and we bail them out. Then they give each other million dollar bonuses because even with their screwups they still made money. The other problem is the class of people who make decisions that pay good in the short term, like laying off all the workers and selling the factory to the Chinese. Huge profits for a short while so they make huge money, then move on. Meanwhile the company no longer has any income and eventually goes bankrupt leaving a lot of creditors and investors holding the can. Some how society has decided that these bastards deserve even more rewards because they did really good for a short while.
Personally I think that trickle up economics works much better. If the average person actually has some disposable income, they can spend it and award the people who have a compelling product instead of spending all their income on necessities, necessities that keep increasing because a certain class of people think they deserve a 10%+ raise every year, even if they haven't done anything particularly positive and usually done something that is long term negative.
Or they can demand that all copyright is signed over to them so even though GPL they could fork a version with a different license. Some projects already do this, eg x264 which is now selling non-GPLed versions. See the bottom of http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation
I highlighted the important part. The heart of the concept of "due process of law" is that no one will be punished until they have been declared guilty of breaking a law in a fair trial. If the meaning of a law is so vague that neither judge nor jury can reasonably ascertain who is guilty of the law and who is not, then the only fair ruling it to acquit everyone accused of it. If the Supreme Court decides that a law cannot be reasonably interpreted, then no other court in the land should attempt to do so. In this case the law is void due to being unconstitutionally vague.
I'll highlight another important part. Americans are scary in interpreting person as citizen. There's the guy with the sig about impeaching Obama for ordering the murder of a citizen. Ordering the murder of anyone is as wrong. It can be argued it wasn't murder as it is war time. Myself it seems as much as a war as the War on Drugs or the War on Poverty. Anyways the point is that everyone deserves and has the right to due process, not just the good guys (in their mind anyways).
Federal, as far as I know it is largely up to the individual provinces how they implement election donations and I don't remember hearing of limits in any provincial elections. The federal government here has somewhat more power then the American federal government, at least constitutionally. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_political_financing_in_Canada, note that Wikipedia is out of date as the per vote subsidy law has been repealed.
"it wouldn't take too many iterations of "watch a beloved astronaut die a slow, horrible death on live TV, with bugger all that anyone can do about it" to convince the American public that their dime is better spent elsewhere"
I understood NASA's plan during Apollo if something went terribly wrong such as the LEM upper-stage not being able to launch, was to just cut of all communication.
We've been trying that here in Canada, no corporate donations, only limited personal donations, public funding based on votes in the last election. Doesn't seemed to have helped much though, we've still got a shitty government who do a good talk but their actions are exactly opposite. They promised to cut spending and re-balance the budget (which was balanced until they got into power) by building lots of prisons, buying lots of military equipment, and cutting taxes more. though they did do away with the public election funding.
I'm in the greater NYC area, and making $100k - $200k doesn't go anywhere near as far as in other places (as you well know being near D.C.), around here a nice little 3 or 4 bedroom cape still goes for over $300k (almost double that before real-estate tanked). It amazes me how cheap it is to live in the States. I'm far enough out of town that there is no internet besides dialup and no cell service and a cheap crappy home still goes for close to half a million and in town a 2 bedroom bungalow in the bad part of town might be slightly less then a million. For $300K you'd be lucky to find a 250 sq foot condo. Vancouver is where I'm talking about, not exactly a big city compared to NY.
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I don't think that OS/2 ever used ring 1 and ring 2 was used for DOS compatibility, allowing DOS device drivers to work in a DOS virtual machine.
Back in the OS/2 1.x days, MS wanted to put the graphics stuff in ring 0, IBM flatly refused, which was one of the many reasons for the falling out between them.
OS/2 did its font parsing in user land with a DLL that was easily replaced with Freetype which was quite an improvement.
Still this is the way socialism should work. Companies owned by their members/customer/employee. The governments job is to ensure a level playing field and the companies looking out for for real owners, members/customers/employees. A little harder to raise money, but that can be a good thing as they'll be more thoughtful about how it is spent.
It always amazes me how Americans have been convinced that socialism is about big government when really it is about the average person being involved instead of the 1% manipulating everything so they can become the 0.5%.
In an ideal world, which unluckily doesn't exist, socialism would lead to communism, where there is no government. Just average people running things. It's a shame that human nature doesn't work logically.
I'm in Canada and self-employed. Most weeks I deposit some cheques into my credit union.
Also all the credit unions, at least in BC, have banded together for purposes like sharing ATM machines which means I can deposit cheques in any credit union ATM or withdraw money without fees.
You're forgetting part of the story, namely how in 1919 or slightly earlier (decision came down in 1919) the stockholders in the persons of the Dodge brothers sued the Ford motor car company for not maximizing share holder value. And won.
Ford did manage to buy back all the shares of his company and continue treating his workers good even if it lowered shareholder value as he was the only shareholder.
How many other companies can do this without the courts ordering them to pay the profits to the shareholders instead of sharing with the workers. Basically no public company, just private.
Were there victorious revolutionaries who pushed due process in the United States of Mexico, the country the thread is about?
And if you're talking about the United States of America, the revolutionaries were amongst other things, pissed off because they were getting deprived of their rights as English men. Rights that were spelt out in various English laws including the Magna Carta and common law.
Typo caused by mixing beer and posting. I know well that it was first signed in 1215
Reading your post my thought was that the FBI agents were bullshitting you about "lying to a federal officer can get you N years in jail, etc etc" as cops like to lie. Unbelievably America actually has a law against lying to a federal officer, not lying to obstruct justice or commit fraud but just lying.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_false_statements
The thing with methane is that it breaks down fairly quickly so it is mostly a short term problem.
Here in BC the local natural gas company (Fortis) keeps advertising how they capture a lot of methane and mix it with natural gas to be burned for heat. I haven't researched it but if true it is an equally good way to dispose of methane. Also gives them carbon credits to offset the carbon tax we have here now.
They surely do. They would only be a natural part of the carbon cycle if they existed in sustainable numbers.
Which raises the question, how does the number of animals raised for food compare to previous populations? For example there were one fuck of a lot of Bison in North America at one time which have been replaced by cows. I don't know the numbers or whether Bison expel similar amounts of methane but I wouldn't be surprised if the number is similar. Other parts of the world are similar, lots of native herbivores replaced by people and their livestock.
Due process exist for a very good reason, laws were not written by tree hugging hippies, they were wrote by victorious revolutionaries that put their life in the line to make a better society.
First time I've heard the Barons of the early 14th century called victorious revolutionaries who put their life on the line (King John was pretty unpopular and didn't have much power at the time) as that is when due process was first put down on a piece of paper called the Magna Carta and stating that all free men have the right to not be punished except through the law of the land.
I am pretty sure that most Catholics would say the worship God and revere Mary but again I am just guessing.
Actions speak louder then words and quite a few Catholics act as if they worship Mary. This isn't surprising as the Judea-Christian religions are severely lacking a female side to their God.
How so? WWI you joined very late in the game, after millions had been killed, leaving you as the only power who hadn't had pretty well a whole generation where the best had died.
WWII you had a choice of surrendering or getting involved after Germany declared war on you. It was easy to help as you had just about the only functioning industrial base at that time and couldn't very well continue selling stuff to Germany after they'd declared war on you and it was the Russians who made the real sacrifices to win the war.
The Marshall plan was probably guilt driven after the demands that you made on the English to dismantle their industry in return for loans combined with fear about the Russians who you had witnessed being willing to make sacrifices to win the war.
America did pretty well out of the wars, much better then any one else.
Quite possibly both are right. Unofficially named after the Mary that the Catholics worship, officially named after the Kings wife.
What does Maryland have to do with religion? I guess you could argue that her husband thought he derived his power from God but considering he lost his head over that argument I don't see how Henrietta Maria of France is related to religion.
Actually pulp paper which Hearst had heavily invested in. Also there were a lot of government people looking for a replacement for prohibition, from g-man to narc.
Unless, of course, you lose money, because there is always risk involved
The problem is there is a large proportion of the super rich where there is no risk involved. They screw up and we bail them out. Then they give each other million dollar bonuses because even with their screwups they still made money.
The other problem is the class of people who make decisions that pay good in the short term, like laying off all the workers and selling the factory to the Chinese. Huge profits for a short while so they make huge money, then move on. Meanwhile the company no longer has any income and eventually goes bankrupt leaving a lot of creditors and investors holding the can. Some how society has decided that these bastards deserve even more rewards because they did really good for a short while.
Personally I think that trickle up economics works much better. If the average person actually has some disposable income, they can spend it and award the people who have a compelling product instead of spending all their income on necessities, necessities that keep increasing because a certain class of people think they deserve a 10%+ raise every year, even if they haven't done anything particularly positive and usually done something that is long term negative.
Or they can demand that all copyright is signed over to them so even though GPL they could fork a version with a different license. Some projects already do this, eg x264 which is now selling non-GPLed versions.
See the bottom of http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation
I highlighted the important part. The heart of the concept of "due process of law" is that no one will be punished until they have been declared guilty of breaking a law in a fair trial. If the meaning of a law is so vague that neither judge nor jury can reasonably ascertain who is guilty of the law and who is not, then the only fair ruling it to acquit everyone accused of it. If the Supreme Court decides that a law cannot be reasonably interpreted, then no other court in the land should attempt to do so. In this case the law is void due to being unconstitutionally vague.
I'll highlight another important part. Americans are scary in interpreting person as citizen. There's the guy with the sig about impeaching Obama for ordering the murder of a citizen. Ordering the murder of anyone is as wrong.
It can be argued it wasn't murder as it is war time. Myself it seems as much as a war as the War on Drugs or the War on Poverty.
Anyways the point is that everyone deserves and has the right to due process, not just the good guys (in their mind anyways).
Federal, as far as I know it is largely up to the individual provinces how they implement election donations and I don't remember hearing of limits in any provincial elections.
The federal government here has somewhat more power then the American federal government, at least constitutionally.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_political_financing_in_Canada, note that Wikipedia is out of date as the per vote subsidy law has been repealed.
"it wouldn't take too many iterations of "watch a beloved astronaut die a slow, horrible death on live TV, with bugger all that anyone can do about it" to convince the American public that their dime is better spent elsewhere"
I understood NASA's plan during Apollo if something went terribly wrong such as the LEM upper-stage not being able to launch, was to just cut of all communication.
We've been trying that here in Canada, no corporate donations, only limited personal donations, public funding based on votes in the last election. Doesn't seemed to have helped much though, we've still got a shitty government who do a good talk but their actions are exactly opposite. They promised to cut spending and re-balance the budget (which was balanced until they got into power) by building lots of prisons, buying lots of military equipment, and cutting taxes more. though they did do away with the public election funding.
* except for the Air Force, which is unconstitutional, according to a plain reading of the text.
And the only part that is likely to be changed to being constitutional.
I'm in the greater NYC area, and making $100k - $200k doesn't go anywhere near as far as in other places (as you well know being near D.C.), around here a nice little 3 or 4 bedroom cape still goes for over $300k (almost double that before real-estate tanked).
It amazes me how cheap it is to live in the States. I'm far enough out of town that there is no internet besides dialup and no cell service and a cheap crappy home still goes for close to half a million and in town a 2 bedroom bungalow in the bad part of town might be slightly less then a million. For $300K you'd be lucky to find a 250 sq foot condo.
Vancouver is where I'm talking about, not exactly a big city compared to NY.