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  1. Re:Windows vs. OS/2 or GNU/Linux on Regulate Facebook Like AIM (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there no ports of stuff like QT for Windows?

  2. Re:Better option.. on Regulate Facebook Like AIM (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The problem was the opposite. Remember that only NT could run OS/2 programs, and only 16 bit text programs out of the box.
    The problem was that OS/2 ran Win3.x programs as well or better then MS Win 3.1, so developers targeted Win 3.x so their programs would run on both OS/2 and MS Windows. OS/2 ended up with a lack of native programs, combined with MS breaking the WinOS2 support often enough that MS Windows was a better choice.
    There was also the problem that OS/2 needed more memory at a time when memory was very expensive.
    Written on a computer running the latest OS/2 (ArcaOS).

  3. Re: Slashdot Died when CmdrTaco Left on 20 Years of Stuff That Matters · · Score: 1

    It was pretty close to a tie for what is basically a constitutional level decision. There's a reason that many countries need a super majority to make constitutional changes.

  4. That's not true. If it is a law that no business cares about enough to write a check, letters can work fine

  5. Canada has tried to implement both. We have net neutrality and the previous government was really trying to get some competition happening, though mostly wireless.
    With large sparsely populated countries, it is just too expensive to build the infrastructure and you inevitably end up with a couple of companies splitting the customers with perhaps the mostly densely populated areas having some choice.

  6. Re:This is why the 2nd Amendment won't go away. on UK Government Could Imprison People For Looking At Terrorist Content (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    You're assuming everyone in the military is a drone and would never go against the will of the government if it turned on its people. It wouldn't be military vs people. It would be military vs military/and or the people along side.

    So far it has been the 2nd amendment people supporting the government when someone uses their 2nd amendment rights. See the results of the baseball shooter who shot at Congress people or the black guys who shot government police officers.
    Americans are very well propagandized and many will support their government, I mean team, right or wrong.

  7. Re:No reading USAian constitution on UK Government Could Imprison People For Looking At Terrorist Content (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    The struggle was for the restoration of the individual's rights, which the King had wantonly disregarded.

    Actually it was Parliament that disregarded various rights, just like in this article. We can bitch that the Queen is ultimately responsible for the actions of Parliament such as this discussion is about but the truth is that Parliament is Supreme and has been so since at least the Glorious Revolution of 1688 when they fired James the 2nd and 7th and replaced him with William and Mary. Parliament also beheaded James's father some years earlier.
    The Crown hasn't vetoed a law (in Great Britain) since the beginning of the 18th century and that was on the advice of the government of the day.

  8. Re:No reading USAian constitution on UK Government Could Imprison People For Looking At Terrorist Content (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    There was lots of tar and feathering, something that could kill, try painting boiling hot pitch on yourself Not to mention a nice group of revolutionaries led my a nice man named Lynch.
    One hell of a lot of colonists were terrorized into heading north (Canada) or south (Caribbean). Of course the victors don't talk much about some of their actions.

  9. Trump was given $2 billion plus in free media coverage.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...
    https://secure.marketwatch.com...
    http://www.weeklystandard.com/...
    https://www.washingtonpost.com...
    https://fivethirtyeight.com/fe...

    Duckduckgo returns lots more with my query, "worth of free media coverage 2016 election Trump"
    If the media had ignored him or only ran paid advertisements, Trump would have been a lot less likely to have won

  10. Re:Pipe bombs would have killed thousands. on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The issue about guns is simple: we have them so we have less government-induced oppression, if we lack them we have more government-induced oppression.

    The problem is that Americans have forgot the other half of the equation, namely that a large standing army leads to oppression. That's the reason that the militia was mentioned in the 2nd and the Army had to be refinanced regularly, unlike the Navy, in the main part of the Constitution.

  11. Re:Nope, just another echo chamber. on Radical Leftists Built Their Own FOSS Alternative To Reddit After It Banned Them (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't sex segregation a right wing thing? Same with colour segregation.
    As someone on the left, I agree with you that

    if black-only or women-only clubs are acceptable then so are whites-only or men-only clubs

    I also can't imagine campaigning to stop anyone from talking at a university, though I will ignore them and encourage others to do the same.

    I think the problem is that America has a totally screwed up idea of what left is. There's actually people down there who think the Clintons are left wing along with the rest of the democrats.

  12. Re:Nope, just another echo chamber. on Radical Leftists Built Their Own FOSS Alternative To Reddit After It Banned Them (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    To be honest, a lot of the time it is centrists being called radical leftists.

  13. Re:Tireless lobbyists on Bell Canada Wants Pirate Websites Blocked For Canadians (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    They've probably absorbed an ex-crown corp or more, perhaps like Telus here who were created from BC Tel and whatever Alberta's phone company was called.

  14. Re:United States Constitution on More Than Half of American Workers Can't Sue Their Employer (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    And who pays for the jury?
    Also seems like another amendment that needs a bit of modernizing, $20 was a lot of money back then, a $10 gold piece contained 0.5156 troy ounces of pure gold and even in 1933, contained 0.48375 troy ounces. A silver dollar likewise contained 24.057 grams of pure silver, so over 480 grams of silver.

  15. Re: News at 11 on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Rejects Trump Bias Claims (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that the fake part was the idea that she was the only one whoever did that crap when it seems to be standard procedure for most politicians.
    The email thing is pretty new, so Bush deleting mails, his secretary of state using outside email servers and overthrowing other countries leaders is an American tradition for every administration.

  16. Re:CPCC already get paid on Bell Canada Wants Pirate Websites Blocked For Canadians (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Audio only.

  17. Re:I thought pirates didn't exist in Canada? on Bell Canada Wants Pirate Websites Blocked For Canadians (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    The levy is mostly on audio stuff like cassette tapes and CDR. After the courts ruled that the levy made all private copying of audio basically legal, they didn't pursue a levy on stuff such as DVDR. That's also why blank DVDs are cheaper then blank CDs

  18. Re:Tireless lobbyists on Bell Canada Wants Pirate Websites Blocked For Canadians (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Crown corporation? I think not. Perhaps you can find a citation?

  19. Re:The US had no reason to secede from the Empire on Spain's Crackdown on Catalonia Includes Internet Censorship (internetsociety.org) · · Score: 1

    Letters of Attainment, tar and feathering, lynching, driving the conservatives out of the colonies, doubling down on ownership of other people, even more theft of other peoples land.

  20. Re:Well that is one way of ensuring a loss on Spain's Crackdown on Catalonia Includes Internet Censorship (internetsociety.org) · · Score: 1

    Child molester is better. Everyone agrees they don't deserve any rights, not even a trial.

  21. Re:Hey Quebec, on Spain's Crackdown on Catalonia Includes Internet Censorship (internetsociety.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since the last referendum, the federal government has passed the clarity act. Has to be a clear super majority rather then 50%+1. Quebec leaving also means amending the Constitution, with an amendment that requires 100% of the Provinces agreeing. There also will need to be a discussion of how much territory Quebec can keep. What they entered Confederation with? Or what the Feds bought from the Hudson's Bay Company. Of course the natives won't want to go either and they're a Federal responsibility.
    Quebec leaving is not as simple as the separatists have preached.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  22. Re: So.... fix the laws, I guess? on Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    True, a Constitution that allows owning people is much better. Freedom includes the freedom to own people and steal savages land.
    As for your other rights, try going into a government building such as a school and use fucking in your speech and see what happens.

  23. Re: So.... fix the laws, I guess? on Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    There's always countries that are founded on the idea that freedom means being free to take others freedom.

  24. Re: So.... fix the laws, I guess? on Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's your right to get water. No one should be able to stop you from building a solar still and extracting the water in the air.
    There are actually places in America where it is illegal to collect rain water

  25. Re: So.... fix the laws, I guess? on Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a crime where I live, something like "failure to supply the necessary needs for life", which is used to prosecute people who do things like starve their children or anyone else that they are in a position of power over like old parents, to death.
    Sounds like you think this is violating someones rights to not take care of people (or even animals) that you are legally responsible for. I disagree.