Does the system that was invented close to 250 years back really make sense now? It has already led to a pretty brutal war due to the States wanting to do different things.
Is there any part of your government that doesn't? Try muttering bomb in an airport and see how far the 1st will protect you. Show up at a Federal building armed and see how far that right to be armed will get you. Those are two really simple parts of the Bill of Rights.
In a free country, the people have to be able to sue the government when rights are trampled and many free countries have codified this in law. For a country to repeal that right of the people would be tyranny.
We're talking about New Zealand rather then America, which seems to have a stronger form of sovereign immunity then countries with a sovereign now. I don't know about New Zealand but here in Canada the legislature has pretty well got rid of sovereign immunity for torts so the people (but not necessarily the Provinces) are free to sue the Crown (when acting as the government) generally. I believe the UK is similar in that the people can sue the Crown in right of the government but not the actual Queen. Note that sovereign immunity is as much about governments not being able to sue other governments. Part of being a free country includes being able to sue the government for wrongs that government did.
Or maybe it's because they want the stability of rules codified into law, as opposed to the rules being able to change at a moment's notice and at the whim of the FCC.
That's right, a new Congress would never change a law that a previous Congress passed.
Didn't Congress pass some legislation to make a law that created the FCC and give it the power to regulate this stuff? That's how most governments work as the legislators can't micro-manage everything.
New immigrants have a history of treating woman and gays like shit, forming their own enclaves and refusing to integrate. My city still has a little Italy, a little Ukraine, a China town and so on. It has always been the kids or grandkids that assimilated.
All considered, the USA was much luckier then the Soviets. Even Kennedy getting shot was good luck for the Moon program. Would the government of stayed as focused without the inspiration from him or would it have turned out more like today where every change in government causes NASA to refocus on different developments? Even the Apollo 1 fire was lucky in a way as it showed how complacent the American engineers were getting and forced much better engineering without which a manned ship would probably have been lost for the same reasons as the Apollo 1 fire, meanwhile the Soviets also got complacent and screwed up their big fucking rocket. Also remember that the USA had a huge lead in industrial capacity coming out of WWII over the Soviets as well as some good German rocket engineers.
And the USSR had rovers driving around the Moon 50 years ago and even sent robots that returned with lunar soil samples. Remembering how far behind the USSR was in 1917 and/or in 1945 after losing 13.7% of its population and lots of infrastructure in WWII, it's quite amazing how well they did. The USA had a huge advantage going into the space race.
It's even more complex. WWI saw a similar advantage for the USA, most of Europe along with what would become the Commonwealth lost most of a generation of young men and likewise the WWII deaths included most of a generation of young men.
OTOH, given network neutrality, hard caps are the way to respond to the high network usage that Netflix etc consume. What those caps should be seems like it would be hard to regulate. In theory, competition would be the solution, but in reality, meaningful competition is just not going to happen for the majority of households. 1 TB does seem low for a GB fibre connection and even worse if they start charging by the MB if you go over rather then just throttling the connection. Really the solution seems to be to treat ISP's as a utility. Where I am, hydro, the phone company, the gas company and such have to apply to a utilities commission to raise rates and have to explain their reasoning for the hike with hikes often rejected or limited more then requested. This would mean that profits are basically limited and whether that would go over in the States is hard to say, it hasn't happened here, though in theory any Province should be able to do it as I believe it is a Provincial responsibility rather then Federal. BTW, my cap is 250 GB on a fixed mobile (4G) connection (only available for remote rural customers) for $85 a month here in BC which seems reasonable to me.
Here's some benchmarks comparing the first Atoms, Intel CPU's without speculation and immune from these flaws against low end C2D and Sempron from the same era. http://www.tomshardware.com/re...
How are the customers responding? Here in BC, my grocery store introduced some self-checkouts. After they'd been in a bit, usage seems to have dropped off to close to zero. Now they've upgraded them and they don't even take cash anymore, which doesn't seem like a good idea at Dollarama. What my grocery store has done, which seems successful, is have all tellers open at the busy times and advertise the fact. It's nice being able to go through the lineup quick, unlike the last time I went to a Dollarama with its one cashier.
Slavery is expensive. Have to feed, house, give medical care and such to the slaves, not to mention the hassle of stopping them from running away. Much cheaper to pay them a pittance and bitch that they're poor.
Recipe for lawn soil, 60-70% sand, 15-20% peat and 15-20% compost. Peat makes a wonderful soil amendment, especially if starting with clay or needing to acidify your soil. By itself, no nutrients and no air for the roots to take oxygen up. Most plants die when waterlogged due to lack of oxygen and peat forms under anaerobic conditions.
This, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/t..., claims that Maples like a pH of 5.5-7.3 whereas peat usually measures more like 4.4 according to http://thegardenofoz.org/peat..... Your article doesn't actually say what the ideal pH for Japanese Maples is though they do compare them to blueberries and various members of the Rhodo family so it sounds like they do like quite acidic soil, which is likely rare for an Acer. Someone else mentioned problems with the invasive Japanese Lilac in Sugar Maple forests. Lilacs hate acidic soil so I assume they're flourishing in closer to neutral soil. They also like light fluffy well drained soil in general and like so many plants, need oxygen for the roots, not really bog plants. Add enough sand, at least equal to the peat and add perhaps 25% compost, cultivate, and it might work. Not really efficient for large plantations of Maples.
The crows around here have the lights at the intersections figured out. Drop a nut on the road, wait for the red light, and pick up the pieces of nut meat. Then there are the Stellars Jay's who like to lure the cats out into the middle of the road. Birds adjust to cars quite well.
No. Fertilizer is stuff like nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium. This is more like organic filler. Good for holding moisture and buffering fertilizer but by itself it grows stuff like crap. It also has a tendency to being acidic, which reduces most plants take up of fertilizer. There's a peat bog down the road from me, the only trees growing in it are stunted Lodgepole Pine.
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Does the system that was invented close to 250 years back really make sense now? It has already led to a pretty brutal war due to the States wanting to do different things.
Is there any part of your government that doesn't? Try muttering bomb in an airport and see how far the 1st will protect you. Show up at a Federal building armed and see how far that right to be armed will get you. Those are two really simple parts of the Bill of Rights.
They raided Uber in Quebec recently. Seems Uber has software to delete everything when the cops bust down the door. https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
In a free country, the people have to be able to sue the government when rights are trampled and many free countries have codified this in law. For a country to repeal that right of the people would be tyranny.
We're talking about New Zealand rather then America, which seems to have a stronger form of sovereign immunity then countries with a sovereign now. I don't know about New Zealand but here in Canada the legislature has pretty well got rid of sovereign immunity for torts so the people (but not necessarily the Provinces) are free to sue the Crown (when acting as the government) generally. I believe the UK is similar in that the people can sue the Crown in right of the government but not the actual Queen. Note that sovereign immunity is as much about governments not being able to sue other governments.
Part of being a free country includes being able to sue the government for wrongs that government did.
Or they prefer Congress to pass a toothless law rather then effective laws passed by the various States.
Or maybe it's because they want the stability of rules codified into law, as opposed to the rules being able to change at a moment's notice and at the whim of the FCC.
That's right, a new Congress would never change a law that a previous Congress passed.
Didn't Congress pass some legislation to make a law that created the FCC and give it the power to regulate this stuff? That's how most governments work as the legislators can't micro-manage everything.
New immigrants have a history of treating woman and gays like shit, forming their own enclaves and refusing to integrate. My city still has a little Italy, a little Ukraine, a China town and so on. It has always been the kids or grandkids that assimilated.
All considered, the USA was much luckier then the Soviets. Even Kennedy getting shot was good luck for the Moon program. Would the government of stayed as focused without the inspiration from him or would it have turned out more like today where every change in government causes NASA to refocus on different developments? Even the Apollo 1 fire was lucky in a way as it showed how complacent the American engineers were getting and forced much better engineering without which a manned ship would probably have been lost for the same reasons as the Apollo 1 fire, meanwhile the Soviets also got complacent and screwed up their big fucking rocket.
Also remember that the USA had a huge lead in industrial capacity coming out of WWII over the Soviets as well as some good German rocket engineers.
And the USSR had rovers driving around the Moon 50 years ago and even sent robots that returned with lunar soil samples.
Remembering how far behind the USSR was in 1917 and/or in 1945 after losing 13.7% of its population and lots of infrastructure in WWII, it's quite amazing how well they did. The USA had a huge advantage going into the space race.
It's even more complex. WWI saw a similar advantage for the USA, most of Europe along with what would become the Commonwealth lost most of a generation of young men and likewise the WWII deaths included most of a generation of young men.
OTOH, given network neutrality, hard caps are the way to respond to the high network usage that Netflix etc consume.
What those caps should be seems like it would be hard to regulate. In theory, competition would be the solution, but in reality, meaningful competition is just not going to happen for the majority of households.
1 TB does seem low for a GB fibre connection and even worse if they start charging by the MB if you go over rather then just throttling the connection.
Really the solution seems to be to treat ISP's as a utility. Where I am, hydro, the phone company, the gas company and such have to apply to a utilities commission to raise rates and have to explain their reasoning for the hike with hikes often rejected or limited more then requested. This would mean that profits are basically limited and whether that would go over in the States is hard to say, it hasn't happened here, though in theory any Province should be able to do it as I believe it is a Provincial responsibility rather then Federal.
BTW, my cap is 250 GB on a fixed mobile (4G) connection (only available for remote rural customers) for $85 a month here in BC which seems reasonable to me.
While they're at it, they should also boycott ISPs that issue needlessly burdensome data caps given to fixed line residential customers
While agreeing with the rest of your post, this stuck out. What do you mean by needlessly burdensome?
Here's some benchmarks comparing the first Atoms, Intel CPU's without speculation and immune from these flaws against low end C2D and Sempron from the same era. http://www.tomshardware.com/re...
Yes, lack of options will push the new tech.
How are the customers responding?
Here in BC, my grocery store introduced some self-checkouts. After they'd been in a bit, usage seems to have dropped off to close to zero. Now they've upgraded them and they don't even take cash anymore, which doesn't seem like a good idea at Dollarama.
What my grocery store has done, which seems successful, is have all tellers open at the busy times and advertise the fact. It's nice being able to go through the lineup quick, unlike the last time I went to a Dollarama with its one cashier.
Slavery is expensive. Have to feed, house, give medical care and such to the slaves, not to mention the hassle of stopping them from running away. Much cheaper to pay them a pittance and bitch that they're poor.
Recipe for lawn soil, 60-70% sand, 15-20% peat and 15-20% compost. Peat makes a wonderful soil amendment, especially if starting with clay or needing to acidify your soil. By itself, no nutrients and no air for the roots to take oxygen up.
Most plants die when waterlogged due to lack of oxygen and peat forms under anaerobic conditions.
This, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/t..., claims that Maples like a pH of 5.5-7.3 whereas peat usually measures more like 4.4 according to http://thegardenofoz.org/peat..... Your article doesn't actually say what the ideal pH for Japanese Maples is though they do compare them to blueberries and various members of the Rhodo family so it sounds like they do like quite acidic soil, which is likely rare for an Acer. Someone else mentioned problems with the invasive Japanese Lilac in Sugar Maple forests. Lilacs hate acidic soil so I assume they're flourishing in closer to neutral soil.
They also like light fluffy well drained soil in general and like so many plants, need oxygen for the roots, not really bog plants. Add enough sand, at least equal to the peat and add perhaps 25% compost, cultivate, and it might work. Not really efficient for large plantations of Maples.
Probably too warm of springs here in BC. We don't have much in the way of hardwood forests here either as the conifers usually out compete them.
The crows around here have the lights at the intersections figured out. Drop a nut on the road, wait for the red light, and pick up the pieces of nut meat.
Then there are the Stellars Jay's who like to lure the cats out into the middle of the road.
Birds adjust to cars quite well.
That's funny. We're talking about America, a country with a long history of ignoring treaties.
No. Fertilizer is stuff like nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium. This is more like organic filler. Good for holding moisture and buffering fertilizer but by itself it grows stuff like crap. It also has a tendency to being acidic, which reduces most plants take up of fertilizer.
There's a peat bog down the road from me, the only trees growing in it are stunted Lodgepole Pine.
Peat. Muskeg is just basically bog.