Saw a study a while back (a year?) that showed that Canada had something like a couple of times the social mobility of America. They defined social mobility as moving from the bottom quintuple to the top quintuple of income. This makes sense as it is a lot easier to change jobs or start a business when you're not in fear of losing your healthcare and have other social support. Duckduckgo returns too many hits for me to look at them on my dial-up connection, but if you're interested in actual research instead of talking points, start here, https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q...
One of the stories I heard was his contract with IBM allowed him to set the prices of the other OSes. Which brings us to the real smart/lucky thing Gates did, signed a very good contract that let MS keep control of DOS and perhaps the above. This was possible for several reasons, coming from a family of lawyers, and IBM, due to the antitrust actions on them, being eager to look like they weren't a monopoly.
Someone gave me a shitty video CD copy of Lord of the Rings, wife loved it and bought it and all the sequels and dragged me to the theatre a couple of time to watch it.Probably at least a couple of hundred bucks the studio, distributors etc made from that one pirated copy. We almost always buy used (a dollar a DVD at the local thrift store) and those are the only 2 times I've gone to a movie in a long time. I'm also pretty sure I've seen studies that show pirating is a net benefit for sales, though these studies are always a little uncertain.
The courts decided that there is no natural right to intellectual property in the common law back in the mid 18th century when the first copyrights ran out and fell into the public domain. Copyright is an invention of the legislatures (or writers of the Constitution in the USA) for one purpose, to advance learning (arts and sciences in the US Constitution) by granting a monopoly for a limited time. It is not real property and all current works are heavily based on others works.
Sometimes that amended data needs to stay private. My wife was adopted, which meant being issued a new birth certificate with a completely different name on it. Often records of adoption are sealed, how do you seal off the records before she was 3 years old and her name change?
Problem is the implementation of ID laws. After experiencing how the right wing fucked up our voting ID requirements here in Canada, I'm a lot less pro voters ID. This blockchain idea sounds just as easy to fuck with, just make sure the internet is slow in various parts of town on voting day. Imagine the lineups as each voter waits for the blockchain to be verified over dial-up speeds.
Just making your election system fair, along with campaign limits, would help a lot. Right now, between gerrymandering and voter suppression, politicians are pretty well guaranteed re-election. Unluckily, any changes would need to be at the Constitutional level.
That's only true for overly long copyright terms. Copyright, at least the version descended from the English version, was meant to promote learning by giving a limited monopoly in exchange for the work going into the public domain. The crime is that the limited time keeps getting extended with the goal of copyrighted works never going into the public domain, basically theft from the public. Another crime is that everything is automatically copyrighted for the same indefinite length. The original 14+14 year length wasn't unreasonable for books in the 18th century, with the need to register, including a small fee, weeding out all the trivial works from copyright. Having to deposit a copy of the work also ensured that it would be available to the public.
26.4kb/s on these old phone lines. I'm lucky, my neighbour canceled her phone in frustration, whenever it rains and it rains a lot here, no dial tone, with Telus swearing everything is good. Mountain blocks satellite as well here.
Yet, here in Canada, we have 5 parties in Parliament and Provincially, the last election was close enough that the Greens with 3 seats hold the balance of power and hopefully will force us to change from first past the post. At that the last Federal election saw the winners winning partially for promising "no more first past the post federal elections", which promise they broke. (Too decisive was the excuse) Hmm, looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... agrees with a list of examples of first past the post systems with more then 2 parties.
I'm 40 miles out of Vancouver, only dial-up until last Friday when Telus lit up a new cell tower, now they're finishing shutting down the dial-up ($39 a month for unlimited + phone line) as I can get cell data, which is not cheap. When I first looked it up, I accidentally went to their Ontario page, it was quite a bit cheaper and Saskatchewan is supposed to be cheaper again.
Depends on the Province. If you're lucky enough to have a publicly owned telco, things are cheap. Even without, some Provinces are quite a bit cheaper then others. Telus just opened a cell tower here, $120 for 10GBs seems like the best deal I can get, though it does sound like the bandwidth is good enough that I can use that up pretty quick and get into the 20 cents a MB thing.
Which is the problem. Seems in America all punishments, including slow death with experimental lethal injection, are not cruel or unusual. Has any punishments been ruled cruel and/or unusual in America? Here in Canada, laws have been struck down for having minimal sentences including 3 strike types of laws. Hmm, seems that the electric chair is considered cruel and unusual, but lethal injection is fine and executing the mentally challenged is also considered cruel and unusual but is still done. Probably 99 years for logging into a unsecured FTP server would be considered fine down there.
The problem with electronic voting will always be that to the average voter, it is just a black box (or 3 in your example). Ideally the whole process needs to be transparent. When I vote, I can watch the whole process, from the empty ballots showing up at the polling station to the count at the end of the day, if I so choose (and assuming there's room, which is almost always the case) and the process is simple enough that the average 3rd grader can understand and verify it.
Yea, even the last from IBM had SMP issues. There's about half a dozen components that needed patching including such gems as tcpip32.dll and keybrd.sys. It's the shits not having source. At least Arca Noae has permission to patch the OS.
Yea, I'm typing this on an ArcaOS install, basically Warp v4.52 with updated drivers etc. It is showing its age, memory above 4GB is only good for a ram disk and running modern apps such as Firefox or Openoffice means having to reboot every few days due to memory fragmentation. I have a Warp v4 install on a different partition, but it isn't SMP safe and crashes pretty quick with more then one core enabled. ArcaOS will install on much modern hardware, as long as it isn't too cheap or expensive and will emulate a BIOS and you use OS/2 to partition the drive (limited to 2TB due to all the 16 bit variables holding CHS values).
You'll need something newer such as https://www.arcanoae.com/ which at least will run on a T540p and hopefully soon with USB3 and wireless support. OS/2 is still not quite dead.
My understanding is that the American Constitution includes a supremacy clause, where if there are conflicts between state and federal laws, the federal laws are supreme. Now when it comes to powers that the Constitution doesn't give the feds, the states should be supreme but SCOTUS doesn't seem to agree. Seems the interstate clause is abused, the feds could enforce things such as a common way of measuring potency of pot, but to claim that someone growing it for personal use infringes on interstate trade is quite the jump. Anyways the drug laws are just one example of laws that the feds don't always prosecute.
Interesting. Is that due to the way the law is worded or? Still doesn't change my point that in general, the executive doesn't prosecute all laws equally for various reasons such as resources.
My understanding is that Congress passed a controlled substance act which specifically made marijuana a schedule 1 drug. Wiki seems to agree with me and mentions a couple of supreme court cases where it was ruled that the Federal government has a right to pass such laws and that the supremacy clause in the American Constitution means that federal law overrules state law when there is a conflict. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Still sounds like the Federal government has decided not to prosecute in various States. Seems I remember cases of the feds busting dispensaries in California that were selling medical marijuana. Here in Canada, the Supreme Court has ruled that people have a right to medical marijuana and all the government ca do is regulate, eg you need a prescription and whereas previously you could grow your own, the previous Conservative government made it so you had to buy it from government appointed grower (they also tried to make it impossible to combat the opiod crisis by making safe injection sites almost impossible to set up, which was also contrary to the Supreme Court ruling that people had a right to safety in shooting up).
You are right that in America, Congress should be a lot clearer on the laws they pass.
It's never as simple as you state. Resources are one limit on enforcing the law. Congress passes a law saying such and such but only funds such, the President has to decide which such to enforce, or in this case, decide which illegal immigrants to prioritize. Then there can be questions such as is it more important to put resources into catching murderers or people sitting in their basement smoking a joint. You even see similar when a cop has the discretion to give out a speeding ticket or a warning, prosecutors deciding which crimes to prosecute and so on. One good example are the federal laws illegalizing pot, do you really want the President to vigorously prosecute such laws? Where I am, differently setup Federal system, pot is defacto legal due to the Provincial government (Constitutionally required to enforce laws) not enforcing the Federal (Constitutionally in charge of criminal law) laws. At that it has devolved to the municipalities to enforce the drug selling trade through business license costs and rules like "so far from a school". The cops also have stopped enforcing the laws against shooting up in public/private to a large degree in favour of saving lives. People are a lot more likely to phone 911 for an overdose when they aren't worried about being thrown in jail.
There are advantages of radio. Try throwing a streaming device together out of a diode, a capacitor and some wire. Try streaming in the middle of nowhere, or like me, 40 miles from the big city (lots of my neighbours commute the hour+ to downtown). Try streaming during a natural disaster such as is happening in Houston now. And, at least where I am, streaming is expensive.
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Saw a study a while back (a year?) that showed that Canada had something like a couple of times the social mobility of America.
They defined social mobility as moving from the bottom quintuple to the top quintuple of income.
This makes sense as it is a lot easier to change jobs or start a business when you're not in fear of losing your healthcare and have other social support.
Duckduckgo returns too many hits for me to look at them on my dial-up connection, but if you're interested in actual research instead of talking points, start here, https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q...
You need the luck to be in a society that allows social mobility. Perhaps the majority of the worlds population doesn't have that luck.
One of the stories I heard was his contract with IBM allowed him to set the prices of the other OSes.
Which brings us to the real smart/lucky thing Gates did, signed a very good contract that let MS keep control of DOS and perhaps the above.
This was possible for several reasons, coming from a family of lawyers, and IBM, due to the antitrust actions on them, being eager to look like they weren't a monopoly.
Someone gave me a shitty video CD copy of Lord of the Rings, wife loved it and bought it and all the sequels and dragged me to the theatre a couple of time to watch it.Probably at least a couple of hundred bucks the studio, distributors etc made from that one pirated copy.
We almost always buy used (a dollar a DVD at the local thrift store) and those are the only 2 times I've gone to a movie in a long time.
I'm also pretty sure I've seen studies that show pirating is a net benefit for sales, though these studies are always a little uncertain.
That's true, there's quite a bit of evidence that piracy increases sales.
Access to information that the creator is willing to share. You have no right to receive any information from me.
True, you always have the right to keep your information secret.
The courts decided that there is no natural right to intellectual property in the common law back in the mid 18th century when the first copyrights ran out and fell into the public domain.
Copyright is an invention of the legislatures (or writers of the Constitution in the USA) for one purpose, to advance learning (arts and sciences in the US Constitution) by granting a monopoly for a limited time.
It is not real property and all current works are heavily based on others works.
Sometimes that amended data needs to stay private. My wife was adopted, which meant being issued a new birth certificate with a completely different name on it. Often records of adoption are sealed, how do you seal off the records before she was 3 years old and her name change?
Problem is the implementation of ID laws. After experiencing how the right wing fucked up our voting ID requirements here in Canada, I'm a lot less pro voters ID.
This blockchain idea sounds just as easy to fuck with, just make sure the internet is slow in various parts of town on voting day. Imagine the lineups as each voter waits for the blockchain to be verified over dial-up speeds.
Just making your election system fair, along with campaign limits, would help a lot. Right now, between gerrymandering and voter suppression, politicians are pretty well guaranteed re-election. Unluckily, any changes would need to be at the Constitutional level.
That's only true for overly long copyright terms. Copyright, at least the version descended from the English version, was meant to promote learning by giving a limited monopoly in exchange for the work going into the public domain. The crime is that the limited time keeps getting extended with the goal of copyrighted works never going into the public domain, basically theft from the public.
Another crime is that everything is automatically copyrighted for the same indefinite length.
The original 14+14 year length wasn't unreasonable for books in the 18th century, with the need to register, including a small fee, weeding out all the trivial works from copyright. Having to deposit a copy of the work also ensured that it would be available to the public.
26.4kb/s on these old phone lines. I'm lucky, my neighbour canceled her phone in frustration, whenever it rains and it rains a lot here, no dial tone, with Telus swearing everything is good. Mountain blocks satellite as well here.
Yet, here in Canada, we have 5 parties in Parliament and Provincially, the last election was close enough that the Greens with 3 seats hold the balance of power and hopefully will force us to change from first past the post. At that the last Federal election saw the winners winning partially for promising "no more first past the post federal elections", which promise they broke. (Too decisive was the excuse)
Hmm, looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... agrees with a list of examples of first past the post systems with more then 2 parties.
I'm 40 miles out of Vancouver, only dial-up until last Friday when Telus lit up a new cell tower, now they're finishing shutting down the dial-up ($39 a month for unlimited + phone line) as I can get cell data, which is not cheap. When I first looked it up, I accidentally went to their Ontario page, it was quite a bit cheaper and Saskatchewan is supposed to be cheaper again.
Depends on the Province. If you're lucky enough to have a publicly owned telco, things are cheap. Even without, some Provinces are quite a bit cheaper then others. Telus just opened a cell tower here, $120 for 10GBs seems like the best deal I can get, though it does sound like the bandwidth is good enough that I can use that up pretty quick and get into the 20 cents a MB thing.
Which is the problem. Seems in America all punishments, including slow death with experimental lethal injection, are not cruel or unusual. Has any punishments been ruled cruel and/or unusual in America? Here in Canada, laws have been struck down for having minimal sentences including 3 strike types of laws.
Hmm, seems that the electric chair is considered cruel and unusual, but lethal injection is fine and executing the mentally challenged is also considered cruel and unusual but is still done. Probably 99 years for logging into a unsecured FTP server would be considered fine down there.
The problem with electronic voting will always be that to the average voter, it is just a black box (or 3 in your example). Ideally the whole process needs to be transparent. When I vote, I can watch the whole process, from the empty ballots showing up at the polling station to the count at the end of the day, if I so choose (and assuming there's room, which is almost always the case) and the process is simple enough that the average 3rd grader can understand and verify it.
Yea, even the last from IBM had SMP issues. There's about half a dozen components that needed patching including such gems as tcpip32.dll and keybrd.sys. It's the shits not having source. At least Arca Noae has permission to patch the OS.
Yea, I'm typing this on an ArcaOS install, basically Warp v4.52 with updated drivers etc. It is showing its age, memory above 4GB is only good for a ram disk and running modern apps such as Firefox or Openoffice means having to reboot every few days due to memory fragmentation. I have a Warp v4 install on a different partition, but it isn't SMP safe and crashes pretty quick with more then one core enabled.
ArcaOS will install on much modern hardware, as long as it isn't too cheap or expensive and will emulate a BIOS and you use OS/2 to partition the drive (limited to 2TB due to all the 16 bit variables holding CHS values).
You'll need something newer such as https://www.arcanoae.com/ which at least will run on a T540p and hopefully soon with USB3 and wireless support. OS/2 is still not quite dead.
My understanding is that the American Constitution includes a supremacy clause, where if there are conflicts between state and federal laws, the federal laws are supreme.
Now when it comes to powers that the Constitution doesn't give the feds, the states should be supreme but SCOTUS doesn't seem to agree. Seems the interstate clause is abused, the feds could enforce things such as a common way of measuring potency of pot, but to claim that someone growing it for personal use infringes on interstate trade is quite the jump.
Anyways the drug laws are just one example of laws that the feds don't always prosecute.
Interesting. Is that due to the way the law is worded or?
Still doesn't change my point that in general, the executive doesn't prosecute all laws equally for various reasons such as resources.
My understanding is that Congress passed a controlled substance act which specifically made marijuana a schedule 1 drug. Wiki seems to agree with me and mentions a couple of supreme court cases where it was ruled that the Federal government has a right to pass such laws and that the supremacy clause in the American Constitution means that federal law overrules state law when there is a conflict. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Still sounds like the Federal government has decided not to prosecute in various States. Seems I remember cases of the feds busting dispensaries in California that were selling medical marijuana. Here in Canada, the Supreme Court has ruled that people have a right to medical marijuana and all the government ca do is regulate, eg you need a prescription and whereas previously you could grow your own, the previous Conservative government made it so you had to buy it from government appointed grower (they also tried to make it impossible to combat the opiod crisis by making safe injection sites almost impossible to set up, which was also contrary to the Supreme Court ruling that people had a right to safety in shooting up).
You are right that in America, Congress should be a lot clearer on the laws they pass.
It's never as simple as you state. Resources are one limit on enforcing the law. Congress passes a law saying such and such but only funds such, the President has to decide which such to enforce, or in this case, decide which illegal immigrants to prioritize. Then there can be questions such as is it more important to put resources into catching murderers or people sitting in their basement smoking a joint. You even see similar when a cop has the discretion to give out a speeding ticket or a warning, prosecutors deciding which crimes to prosecute and so on.
One good example are the federal laws illegalizing pot, do you really want the President to vigorously prosecute such laws? Where I am, differently setup Federal system, pot is defacto legal due to the Provincial government (Constitutionally required to enforce laws) not enforcing the Federal (Constitutionally in charge of criminal law) laws. At that it has devolved to the municipalities to enforce the drug selling trade through business license costs and rules like "so far from a school". The cops also have stopped enforcing the laws against shooting up in public/private to a large degree in favour of saving lives. People are a lot more likely to phone 911 for an overdose when they aren't worried about being thrown in jail.
There are advantages of radio. Try throwing a streaming device together out of a diode, a capacitor and some wire. Try streaming in the middle of nowhere, or like me, 40 miles from the big city (lots of my neighbours commute the hour+ to downtown). Try streaming during a natural disaster such as is happening in Houston now. And, at least where I am, streaming is expensive.