yes, yes you can run MSDOS quite happily on any x86 cpu
Actually it depends on a BIOS and if running it on a HD, I believe it requires CHS addressing. Two things that are going away. Once they remove legacy BIOS support from the latest boxes (probably soon), no more running DOS on new bare hardware.
Legally they can't stop after market support, including if I want to machine parts for my 25 year old truck (which is well supported by after market vendors) and I can do anything to it as long as it still street legal, whereas MS will use various laws (copyright, patents) to stop any after market support. Even worse is that these days you're not allowed to do stuff to the hardware/software that you bought after hearing the ads about "owning it". At least if they were honest about it being a lease or rental, people could make a more informed decision.
That restriction goes back to before vPro, IME. I have a T42 (Pentium M) which is like that, a short white list in the BIOS of wireless cards/chips and anything else means no boot. At least with such an old laptop there are alternative patched BIOSes available to get around the issue. New ones are probably signed everywhere just to make sure you can't use the hardware you bought as you'd like.
Sure, science says the war on drugs is a useless set of regulations, same with regulations on things like what consenting adults do in their bedroom, gay marriage, and various other religious driven regulations. These are the regulations that the anti-regulation people are usually in favour of.
Would have to be pretty holy to build a rifle with stone age tools. Jade rifle barrel would be neat though and there was enough gold laying around to make rounds with. Me, I found myself once in grizzly country with nothing but a single shot 12 gauge loaded with a slug. Found religion pretty quick when I saw a she bear standing up a few hundred feet away with her cubs besides her. Grizzlies are hard to kill even with a rifle, and they're a lot bigger then the local black bears.
Not really, the same shit happened in Germany in the 1930s and is happening again now in the UK, US and maybe even the Netherlands and France.
Hate is a powerful argument. Blame one group for everything. Make sure they don't have a voice to counter your arguments. It could be infidels, Jews, immigrants, Muslims, the disabled, anyone.
I'll just add here that the blame and hate thing works best when things like the economy are bad. Much of this hateful blame is a reaction to the 2008 financial meltdown, high unemployment, especially amongst the youth, low wages creates this environment and parts of Europe were particularity hard hit through no fault of their own.
Depends on how the worshiping is done. The natives here seem to have equated worshiping nature as respecting and it's kind of understandable. When cutting down a 10 ft thick tree with stone and fire, a lot can go wrong. Same with going out with a spear to kill a grizzly bear.
You do have countries like America where it is impossible for a non-christian to get elected. Shit one of the biggest lies about Obama was that he was Muslim and how bad that was instead of a sign of religious tolerance. Here in Canada, usually the religion of a politician is never mentioned. The exception was the last Conservative government where the PM proudly talked about his Christian morals such as "fuck the poor", "need to lock more people up", "never forgive", "the rich are the only important people" "science is a means of transferring taxpayers money to the rich", "a democratically elected government should be able to remove any rights it wants and fuck the undemocratic courts" and I'm sure if he could have got the support, he would have instituted something like Sharia law. The truth is that all these religions based on the Bible have a tendency to some really fucked up morals, which makes it funny in a sad way to see them putting each other down.
I'm not an American citizen so I can't vote there. Here I vote in every election and have a 100% record of not voting for the winning party. I'm glad to hear that you vote, unluckily your system really seems to have the deck stacked and even if you do get a law and order President, there is still the rest of government and a lot of inertia.
You misunderstand, you can't enforce laws if the judge rules the law says otherwise then it says. Take the first 2 amendments, very simple laws, part of the Constitution so the only way (in theory) to override them is with another amendment yet how many laws have been passed by Congress limiting speech that have been found Constitutional? Same with the second, which is also very easy to read. How do you enforce laws if the judiciary refuses to enforce them?
Obviously Smith and Friedman are right about the role of government but we have real world experiments such as the United States of America which shows in practice the market will reward those who subvert government so it's worth subverting. How do you stop the subversion? The American Constitution, a great idea, failed miserably due to how easy it is for a court to rule that the meaning of a simple sentence is actually different then written. I was taught in school that the rule for what a republic is is that it is not a monarchy. Nothing about dictatorships, which are common in republics, though the DPRK are pushing it as the head of state seems to be hereditary, then again there has been elective monarchies so the line is blurry.
The AC is basically right. Capitalism rewards those with the capital and the market rewards the most efficient at using that capital. It is often more efficient to cheat and an easy way to cheat is to get into the position of making the rules. As long as it is more efficient to repress the competition then actually have a better product, the successful capitalist will focus on repressing the competition and you end up with crony capitalism.
Up until the '30's the vast majority of the population were even worse off. (America slightly better due to the government stealing land and redistributing it to the poor through homesteading). The government itself was even more in the pockets of the rich in the 19th century with many political positions, from judges to senators, being for sale.
Funny enough, having a King is usually better then having a President for Life, First Citizen or whatever title a dictator chooses while maintaining the illusion of a democratic republic (think of the arsehole in charge of N. Korea and how little he cares for the people). Kings are usually raised to care about their realm and at least have a court to keep them in check whereas dictators are usually just that though I guess there is always a chance of lucking out on a benevolent one. I live in a Democratic Constitutional Monarchy, which in practice is little different then a Democratic Constitutional Republic and republic is not a magic word here.
Depends on their goal. Efficiency or legality. I hate it when my vehicle tries to maintain the legal speed limit on the roads around here. Then there are the advisory speed limits (yellow signs before a corner), which are usually too low, at least in good conditions.
One thing that's important to note: if you are in a mountainous area you should turn off cruise. It will try to keep you up to the speed you've set and will use a lot of extra gas downshifting to lower gears to accomplish this.
Which is why I hardly use cruise control and wonder about a self driving car.
What surprises me is that there isn't more movement to eliminating the pilot in commercial aircraft. It's to the point that the biggest threat to passenger safety is the pilot.
Problem is that the autopilot is still not good enough to replace pilots in all circumstances. We've had Airbus crashes where the autopilot overrode the pilots, resulting in hundreds of deaths. We've had situations where the pilot has saved hundreds of lives such as the one that landed in the E river or the Gimli glider. Perhaps the autopilot would have landed safely in the river but in the case of the Gimli glider, officially the plane could not glide (luckily the captain was a gliding enthusiast) and the copilot remembered the abandoned (unmapped) airfield where they safely landed. A car can simply roll to a stop when the autopilot gets confused, an airplane, not so much. Personally I'd still like the option of a manual override when the car gets confused in an intersection and just stops or worse decides to believe the GPS about the non-existent road.
There is a constitution, it's just that Parliament is supreme and can't be limited by a prior Parliament so the constitution is weak. Basically a Parliament can repeal any law, even those considered part of the Constitution such as the latest treaties and associated enabling acts that turned over some powers to the EU.
I agree and was just agreeing with you except in a republic there is no monarchy (think imperial Rome or the Democratic Republic of N. Korea) and it is still a democracy as long as there is one voter. The actual quote I was going for was from Discworld, "One man, one vote and I'm that man" or so.
Oh bullshit, democracy rules. One man, one vote, and that man is Mr. President for Life, an ordinary man who will represent you in the small government.
Google doesn't have a monopoly, there's competition like Facebook and MS in the tracking space, Bing in the search engine space and a few ad networks. Soon your ISP will also be competing in gathering your info and selling it as well (yay consumer freedom) and it is harder to block your ISP then just adding a few entries to your hosts file and running no-script. Your ISP also has a lot more power then Google in controlling your internet use
Did Porsche throw the manuals in or did you have to pay? I've always had to pay for factory manuals for my cars. Usually the price has been reasonable. I did buy an expensive lawnmower the other year, made by Honda, USA, and the only way I can buy the service manual here in Canada is by importing it from another market. It would have helped me diagnose the ignition unit that died a couple of months after the warranty ran out.
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yes, yes you can run MSDOS quite happily on any x86 cpu
Actually it depends on a BIOS and if running it on a HD, I believe it requires CHS addressing. Two things that are going away. Once they remove legacy BIOS support from the latest boxes (probably soon), no more running DOS on new bare hardware.
Legally they can't stop after market support, including if I want to machine parts for my 25 year old truck (which is well supported by after market vendors) and I can do anything to it as long as it still street legal, whereas MS will use various laws (copyright, patents) to stop any after market support. Even worse is that these days you're not allowed to do stuff to the hardware/software that you bought after hearing the ads about "owning it". At least if they were honest about it being a lease or rental, people could make a more informed decision.
That restriction goes back to before vPro, IME. I have a T42 (Pentium M) which is like that, a short white list in the BIOS of wireless cards/chips and anything else means no boot.
At least with such an old laptop there are alternative patched BIOSes available to get around the issue. New ones are probably signed everywhere just to make sure you can't use the hardware you bought as you'd like.
Sure, science says the war on drugs is a useless set of regulations, same with regulations on things like what consenting adults do in their bedroom, gay marriage, and various other religious driven regulations. These are the regulations that the anti-regulation people are usually in favour of.
Would have to be pretty holy to build a rifle with stone age tools. Jade rifle barrel would be neat though and there was enough gold laying around to make rounds with.
Me, I found myself once in grizzly country with nothing but a single shot 12 gauge loaded with a slug. Found religion pretty quick when I saw a she bear standing up a few hundred feet away with her cubs besides her. Grizzlies are hard to kill even with a rifle, and they're a lot bigger then the local black bears.
It may be a sort of false flag operation. It is in Erdogan's interest to make the Turks living aboard fearful as he needs their votes.
Not really, the same shit happened in Germany in the 1930s and is happening again now in the UK, US and maybe even the Netherlands and France.
Hate is a powerful argument. Blame one group for everything. Make sure they don't have a voice to counter your arguments. It could be infidels, Jews, immigrants, Muslims, the disabled, anyone.
I'll just add here that the blame and hate thing works best when things like the economy are bad. Much of this hateful blame is a reaction to the 2008 financial meltdown, high unemployment, especially amongst the youth, low wages creates this environment and parts of Europe were particularity hard hit through no fault of their own.
Depends on how the worshiping is done. The natives here seem to have equated worshiping nature as respecting and it's kind of understandable. When cutting down a 10 ft thick tree with stone and fire, a lot can go wrong. Same with going out with a spear to kill a grizzly bear.
You do have countries like America where it is impossible for a non-christian to get elected. Shit one of the biggest lies about Obama was that he was Muslim and how bad that was instead of a sign of religious tolerance.
Here in Canada, usually the religion of a politician is never mentioned. The exception was the last Conservative government where the PM proudly talked about his Christian morals such as "fuck the poor", "need to lock more people up", "never forgive", "the rich are the only important people" "science is a means of transferring taxpayers money to the rich", "a democratically elected government should be able to remove any rights it wants and fuck the undemocratic courts" and I'm sure if he could have got the support, he would have instituted something like Sharia law.
The truth is that all these religions based on the Bible have a tendency to some really fucked up morals, which makes it funny in a sad way to see them putting each other down.
Soylentnews.org Interesting what they've done with their fork of the code.
I'm not an American citizen so I can't vote there. Here I vote in every election and have a 100% record of not voting for the winning party.
I'm glad to hear that you vote, unluckily your system really seems to have the deck stacked and even if you do get a law and order President, there is still the rest of government and a lot of inertia.
You misunderstand, you can't enforce laws if the judge rules the law says otherwise then it says. Take the first 2 amendments, very simple laws, part of the Constitution so the only way (in theory) to override them is with another amendment yet how many laws have been passed by Congress limiting speech that have been found Constitutional? Same with the second, which is also very easy to read.
How do you enforce laws if the judiciary refuses to enforce them?
Obviously Smith and Friedman are right about the role of government but we have real world experiments such as the United States of America which shows in practice the market will reward those who subvert government so it's worth subverting. How do you stop the subversion? The American Constitution, a great idea, failed miserably due to how easy it is for a court to rule that the meaning of a simple sentence is actually different then written.
I was taught in school that the rule for what a republic is is that it is not a monarchy. Nothing about dictatorships, which are common in republics, though the DPRK are pushing it as the head of state seems to be hereditary, then again there has been elective monarchies so the line is blurry.
Depends on how you define wealth. If I earn $50 a day where I live, I can't afford basic shelter and food. Elsewhere you could live well on $5 a day.
The AC is basically right. Capitalism rewards those with the capital and the market rewards the most efficient at using that capital. It is often more efficient to cheat and an easy way to cheat is to get into the position of making the rules. As long as it is more efficient to repress the competition then actually have a better product, the successful capitalist will focus on repressing the competition and you end up with crony capitalism.
Up until the '30's the vast majority of the population were even worse off. (America slightly better due to the government stealing land and redistributing it to the poor through homesteading).
The government itself was even more in the pockets of the rich in the 19th century with many political positions, from judges to senators, being for sale.
Funny enough, having a King is usually better then having a President for Life, First Citizen or whatever title a dictator chooses while maintaining the illusion of a democratic republic (think of the arsehole in charge of N. Korea and how little he cares for the people). Kings are usually raised to care about their realm and at least have a court to keep them in check whereas dictators are usually just that though I guess there is always a chance of lucking out on a benevolent one.
I live in a Democratic Constitutional Monarchy, which in practice is little different then a Democratic Constitutional Republic and republic is not a magic word here.
Depends on their goal. Efficiency or legality. I hate it when my vehicle tries to maintain the legal speed limit on the roads around here. Then there are the advisory speed limits (yellow signs before a corner), which are usually too low, at least in good conditions.
As the article says,
One thing that's important to note: if you are in a mountainous area you should turn off cruise. It will try to keep you up to the speed you've set and will use a lot of extra gas downshifting to lower gears to accomplish this.
Which is why I hardly use cruise control and wonder about a self driving car.
What surprises me is that there isn't more movement to eliminating the pilot in commercial aircraft. It's to the point that the biggest threat to passenger safety is the pilot.
Problem is that the autopilot is still not good enough to replace pilots in all circumstances. We've had Airbus crashes where the autopilot overrode the pilots, resulting in hundreds of deaths. We've had situations where the pilot has saved hundreds of lives such as the one that landed in the E river or the Gimli glider. Perhaps the autopilot would have landed safely in the river but in the case of the Gimli glider, officially the plane could not glide (luckily the captain was a gliding enthusiast) and the copilot remembered the abandoned (unmapped) airfield where they safely landed.
A car can simply roll to a stop when the autopilot gets confused, an airplane, not so much.
Personally I'd still like the option of a manual override when the car gets confused in an intersection and just stops or worse decides to believe the GPS about the non-existent road.
There is a constitution, it's just that Parliament is supreme and can't be limited by a prior Parliament so the constitution is weak. Basically a Parliament can repeal any law, even those considered part of the Constitution such as the latest treaties and associated enabling acts that turned over some powers to the EU.
I agree and was just agreeing with you except in a republic there is no monarchy (think imperial Rome or the Democratic Republic of N. Korea) and it is still a democracy as long as there is one voter. The actual quote I was going for was from Discworld, "One man, one vote and I'm that man" or so.
Oh bullshit, democracy rules. One man, one vote, and that man is Mr. President for Life, an ordinary man who will represent you in the small government.
Google doesn't have a monopoly, there's competition like Facebook and MS in the tracking space, Bing in the search engine space and a few ad networks. Soon your ISP will also be competing in gathering your info and selling it as well (yay consumer freedom) and it is harder to block your ISP then just adding a few entries to your hosts file and running no-script. Your ISP also has a lot more power then Google in controlling your internet use
Did Porsche throw the manuals in or did you have to pay? I've always had to pay for factory manuals for my cars. Usually the price has been reasonable. I did buy an expensive lawnmower the other year, made by Honda, USA, and the only way I can buy the service manual here in Canada is by importing it from another market. It would have helped me diagnose the ignition unit that died a couple of months after the warranty ran out.