Rights are a very human concept. In reality, you have the rights you take and can defend, and that is the law of nature. It's a dog-eat-dog world and survival of the fittest, and the universe owes you nothing. Your right to life extends only as far as your ability to defend your life. If you are prey it's because you are not strong enough to be predator.
While you're right on one level, on another level you're wrong. People are a social animal and we can act as a group and defend each others rights. As a group, our right to life actually extends as far as the group has the ability to defend members of the groups life. Other rights are similar, if the group decides that freedom of speech should be defended, the group can defend the individuals right to speech. Of course there are still conflicts such as this article where the right to profit is up against property rights
I have a refurbished $50 first generation c2d computer, it came with a license for Win7 refurbished edition, which I never activated but assume is just Win7 Home edition. I'd assume the license was quite cheap.
I was following the discussion on mozilla.dev.platform when the decision was made. It actually is an API problem of which I forget the specifics, it might have even been wanting to update the compiler. Google made the same decision when they dropped support for XP and Vista. Mozilla is/was also considering maintaining 52ESR support for longer then the usual 16 months depending on how many XP users are left next year.
Wolf, Coyote, Fox, Dog, all similar at the low level, can even interbreed GNU/Linux, X/Linux, BSD/Linux, Android, all similar at the low level, I have Debian, including X, running on my Android phone in a chroot. Sorta like interbreeding.
While you're technically right, the common meaning of an operating system includes its libraries, shell (including graphical) and usually basic utilities. Even your link at the top of the page (4th paragraph) says,
The dominant desktop operating system is Microsoft Windows with a market share of around 83.3%. macOS by Apple Inc. is in second place (11.2%), and Linux is in third position (1.55%)).[3] In the mobile (smartphone and tablet combined) sector, according to third quarter 2016 data, Android by Google is dominant with 87.5 percent and a growth rate 10.3 percent per year, followed by iOS by Apple with 12.1 percent and a per year decrease in market share of 5.2 percent, while other operating systems amount to just 0.3 percent.
Note that the article differentiates between Linux and Android.
Depends on the problem. Last time I needed help, it was a leaking caliper, easy diagnosis, pretty easy driveway fix but as I live a dozen miles out of town, I needed a buddy to bring me the parts. A proper mechanic could have had me going in short order and would have had the wheel bearing tool to change the thin rotor as well. May have cost more for parts as I'd assume the mechanic would have automatically changed most everything, but brakes are important and my case of having a truck where someone had previously only replaced one caliper+rotor is hopefully rare.
There should be checks and such to minimize corruption but as long as corruption is good for business, you end up with governments like your Chicago example, where private enterprise encourages corruption so they can maximize profits at the taxpayers expanse
Perhaps the protein is being replaced by carbohydrates and the fat is being replaced by sugar, all to raise profits. If the customer drinks a cup of corn syrup to get full instead of consuming a chunk of meat, they're going to get obese while saving money somewhere, or raising someones profit margins..
The problem is that, absent corruption, it is not true that private is automatically better then public. Any efficiencies are just siphoned off as profit and remove control from the public. Even with corruption, the private business will just corrupt the government to give the business an advantage.
Yea, those Germans didn't seem to use a decimal system of counting way back. We're talking English Imperial where a hundredweight was 8 stone or a 20th of a proper ton of 2,240 lbs, though in N. America we use[d] the decimal ton of 2000lbs. One of the problems is that we've had so many counting methods, do we use fingers or the gaps in between the fingers is one example with both having been used at one time and you must admit that base 8 makes a nice system.
Much of the world used imperial where a gallon was defined as 10 lbs of water holding 160 fluid ounces so a pint is 20 fl oz or 1 and a quarter pounds (at 67 degrees F IIRC)
In Imperial, a gallon weighs 10 pounds and contains 160 fluid ounces that weigh an ounce . 2 Imperial cups to a pint so a cup is 10 fl. oz and holds 10 ounces of water. Though here in Canada a cup is 8 fl.oz or 1/20th of a gallon and holds 16 tablespoons or 48 teaspoons.
While we don't feel quite as strongly about property rights as Americans, it is still bloody important. Really the problem with this law and that it was argued in the Federal Court is the fact that Section 92(13) of the Constitutional Act, 1867 gives "13. Property and Civil Rights in the Province." so why the hell did the Federal government pass this law. It's seems not to be criminal,which is enforced by the Provinces anyways, might be covered under the commerce clause, which is different and weaker then the American version. Hopefully this will be appealed and struck down as it doesn't seem to be a power that the Federal government has, namely creating new forms of property that infringe on our established property and civil rights.
The problem is that the tractor replaces (numbers pulled out of my ass) 100 ox leaving 99 farmers without a job. Sure the farmer with the tractor, or more likely the non-farmer who invests in the tractor, eats better along with the couple of people hired to drive the tractor, mechanic etc, but for those other 90 odd farmers who are first forced to borrow to survive then lose their land when they can't pay their debts... See the great depression. The traditional response to this has been war, WWII for example did a wonderful job of creating demand for stuff and putting the unemployed back to work and since, at least in America, the war machine (including supplying war ravished nations with stuff) has driven the economy. With improved weaponry this gets unsustainable, though I guess a nuclear war would reset everything.
Thanks, I missed that one though it's not surprising. I'm still reeling over how generous she is to return our premiums to what they were the other year if we apply. Isn't much talk about how the government has moved its debt to BC Hydro and ICBC either. I guess that we're supposed to be happy we have so many low wage jobs to match our high cost of living.
True, with the longer life expectancy we have to pay out more in old age pensions compared to America, assuming the same retirement ages. Here's a chart showing how America was falling behind the developed world though it's pre-Obama. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/b... And the usual wiki entry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
When I was in a car accident I got billed $50 for the ambulance here in BC, they also ruined my shirt removing so it did cost me the the shirt on my back.
Why do think that violent and property crime will end? Most crime here is done by drunk people who don't think about consequences, then there's the other ones who are incapable of thinking of consequences due to mental damage or desperation and of course the well connected criminals who get the laws changed in their favour and/or have good lawyers. You can keep locking up people, but the American experiment shows that doesn't keep crime down, At that locking people up and then denying them basic rights for the rest of their life probably makes crime worst. It does help with the current movement to fascism though and perhaps once the ovens are fired up, we can just get rid of the undesirables.
OTOH, after the black death came the first wage controls in the form of maximum wages as the rich tried to keep control, which led to peasant revolts all over Europe. The powerful were still powerful enough that not one of those revolts succeeded.
It's physics, it's hard to dump 80MWs of heat in space and wishing won't change that. Invent a better way to extract electricity from nuclear fuel, perfect fusion, or use solar panels seem to be the current choices. It would be nice to have some breakthroughs, especially a reaction less drive that uses little power.
The questions were already looked into back in the '60's, the math is pretty basic. Basically for a reactor in space, you need a heat dump and all that works in space is a radiator. I don't know the math but I'm pretty sure a radiator that can dump 80 MWs of heat would be very big. Same with a centrifuge, though there you can take shortcuts such as having 2 capsules connected by cable spinning around a central point or better connected to a central object such as a booster. It's engineering on a very large scale, in space. $23 Billion would be a start just like the ISS is a start on learning how to build stuff in space, which turns out to be quite hard. Just like the first ship building started out by building small boats and then scaling them up while doing lots of learning, space ships will be the same. Be nice to learn more about reactors in space (along with on the Moon and Mars) but we'll have to start small and then scale up.
1. A very powerful and long lasting power source. Think naval reactors or other self contained, compact reactors. We are talking 80 megawatts of power or more. The more the better.
Besides what the AC said about mass, you're talking about a 80 MW steam engine in space, you need water and you need a huge heat sink for a nuclear reactor, which is actually just a steam engine.
4. "Artificial" gravity. Actually, a huge centrifuge for the living/working quarters.
You might be unpleasantly surprised at how big a centrifuge has to be to generate a decent amount of centripetal force close to equally over the average persons 6 feet as well as to keep the sideways forces to a minimum.
5. Lastly...engines. Banks of ion engines, the infamous and yet to be proven EM drive, or who knows what else.
See number 1, how the hell are you going to power it as steam engines don't work that well in space.
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Rights are a very human concept. In reality, you have the rights you take and can defend, and that is the law of nature. It's a dog-eat-dog world and survival of the fittest, and the universe owes you nothing. Your right to life extends only as far as your ability to defend your life. If you are prey it's because you are not strong enough to be predator.
While you're right on one level, on another level you're wrong.
People are a social animal and we can act as a group and defend each others rights. As a group, our right to life actually extends as far as the group has the ability to defend members of the groups life. Other rights are similar, if the group decides that freedom of speech should be defended, the group can defend the individuals right to speech. Of course there are still conflicts such as this article where the right to profit is up against property rights
I was thinking Linux kernel with BSD user land instead of GNU. Not sure if anyone actually ships such a distribution.
I have a refurbished $50 first generation c2d computer, it came with a license for Win7 refurbished edition, which I never activated but assume is just Win7 Home edition. I'd assume the license was quite cheap.
I was following the discussion on mozilla.dev.platform when the decision was made. It actually is an API problem of which I forget the specifics, it might have even been wanting to update the compiler. Google made the same decision when they dropped support for XP and Vista.
Mozilla is/was also considering maintaining 52ESR support for longer then the usual 16 months depending on how many XP users are left next year.
Better is,
1) A dog is a kind of Canine
2) Android is a kind of Linux
Wolf, Coyote, Fox, Dog, all similar at the low level, can even interbreed
GNU/Linux, X/Linux, BSD/Linux, Android, all similar at the low level, I have Debian, including X, running on my Android phone in a chroot. Sorta like interbreeding.
While you're technically right, the common meaning of an operating system includes its libraries, shell (including graphical) and usually basic utilities. Even your link at the top of the page (4th paragraph) says,
Note that the article differentiates between Linux and Android.
Is it that hard not to click articles that don't interest you? It's what I do and if I make a mistake, well that's what the back button is for.
Depends on the problem. Last time I needed help, it was a leaking caliper, easy diagnosis, pretty easy driveway fix but as I live a dozen miles out of town, I needed a buddy to bring me the parts. A proper mechanic could have had me going in short order and would have had the wheel bearing tool to change the thin rotor as well. May have cost more for parts as I'd assume the mechanic would have automatically changed most everything, but brakes are important and my case of having a truck where someone had previously only replaced one caliper+rotor is hopefully rare.
There should be checks and such to minimize corruption but as long as corruption is good for business, you end up with governments like your Chicago example, where private enterprise encourages corruption so they can maximize profits at the taxpayers expanse
Perhaps the protein is being replaced by carbohydrates and the fat is being replaced by sugar, all to raise profits. If the customer drinks a cup of corn syrup to get full instead of consuming a chunk of meat, they're going to get obese while saving money somewhere, or raising someones profit margins..
The problem is that, absent corruption, it is not true that private is automatically better then public. Any efficiencies are just siphoned off as profit and remove control from the public. Even with corruption, the private business will just corrupt the government to give the business an advantage.
Yea, those Germans didn't seem to use a decimal system of counting way back. We're talking English Imperial where a hundredweight was 8 stone or a 20th of a proper ton of 2,240 lbs, though in N. America we use[d] the decimal ton of 2000lbs.
One of the problems is that we've had so many counting methods, do we use fingers or the gaps in between the fingers is one example with both having been used at one time and you must admit that base 8 makes a nice system.
Much of the world used imperial where a gallon was defined as 10 lbs of water holding 160 fluid ounces so a pint is 20 fl oz or 1 and a quarter pounds (at 67 degrees F IIRC)
In Imperial, a gallon weighs 10 pounds and contains 160 fluid ounces that weigh an ounce . 2 Imperial cups to a pint so a cup is 10 fl. oz and holds 10 ounces of water. Though here in Canada a cup is 8 fl .oz or 1/20th of a gallon and holds 16 tablespoons or 48 teaspoons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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While we don't feel quite as strongly about property rights as Americans, it is still bloody important. Really the problem with this law and that it was argued in the Federal Court is the fact that Section 92(13) of the Constitutional Act, 1867 gives "13. Property and Civil Rights in the Province." so why the hell did the Federal government pass this law. It's seems not to be criminal,which is enforced by the Provinces anyways, might be covered under the commerce clause, which is different and weaker then the American version.
Hopefully this will be appealed and struck down as it doesn't seem to be a power that the Federal government has, namely creating new forms of property that infringe on our established property and civil rights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The problem is that the tractor replaces (numbers pulled out of my ass) 100 ox leaving 99 farmers without a job. Sure the farmer with the tractor, or more likely the non-farmer who invests in the tractor, eats better along with the couple of people hired to drive the tractor, mechanic etc, but for those other 90 odd farmers who are first forced to borrow to survive then lose their land when they can't pay their debts... See the great depression.
The traditional response to this has been war, WWII for example did a wonderful job of creating demand for stuff and putting the unemployed back to work and since, at least in America, the war machine (including supplying war ravished nations with stuff) has driven the economy.
With improved weaponry this gets unsustainable, though I guess a nuclear war would reset everything.
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Thanks, I missed that one though it's not surprising. I'm still reeling over how generous she is to return our premiums to what they were the other year if we apply. Isn't much talk about how the government has moved its debt to BC Hydro and ICBC either.
I guess that we're supposed to be happy we have so many low wage jobs to match our high cost of living.
True, with the longer life expectancy we have to pay out more in old age pensions compared to America, assuming the same retirement ages.
Here's a chart showing how America was falling behind the developed world though it's pre-Obama. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/b...
And the usual wiki entry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
When I was in a car accident I got billed $50 for the ambulance here in BC, they also ruined my shirt removing so it did cost me the the shirt on my back.
Why do think that violent and property crime will end? Most crime here is done by drunk people who don't think about consequences, then there's the other ones who are incapable of thinking of consequences due to mental damage or desperation and of course the well connected criminals who get the laws changed in their favour and/or have good lawyers.
You can keep locking up people, but the American experiment shows that doesn't keep crime down, At that locking people up and then denying them basic rights for the rest of their life probably makes crime worst. It does help with the current movement to fascism though and perhaps once the ovens are fired up, we can just get rid of the undesirables.
OTOH, after the black death came the first wage controls in the form of maximum wages as the rich tried to keep control, which led to peasant revolts all over Europe. The powerful were still powerful enough that not one of those revolts succeeded.
It's physics, it's hard to dump 80MWs of heat in space and wishing won't change that. Invent a better way to extract electricity from nuclear fuel, perfect fusion, or use solar panels seem to be the current choices. It would be nice to have some breakthroughs, especially a reaction less drive that uses little power.
The questions were already looked into back in the '60's, the math is pretty basic. Basically for a reactor in space, you need a heat dump and all that works in space is a radiator. I don't know the math but I'm pretty sure a radiator that can dump 80 MWs of heat would be very big. Same with a centrifuge, though there you can take shortcuts such as having 2 capsules connected by cable spinning around a central point or better connected to a central object such as a booster.
It's engineering on a very large scale, in space. $23 Billion would be a start just like the ISS is a start on learning how to build stuff in space, which turns out to be quite hard.
Just like the first ship building started out by building small boats and then scaling them up while doing lots of learning, space ships will be the same. Be nice to learn more about reactors in space (along with on the Moon and Mars) but we'll have to start small and then scale up.
1. A very powerful and long lasting power source. Think naval reactors or other self contained, compact reactors. We are talking 80 megawatts of power or more. The more the better.
Besides what the AC said about mass, you're talking about a 80 MW steam engine in space, you need water and you need a huge heat sink for a nuclear reactor, which is actually just a steam engine.
4. "Artificial" gravity. Actually, a huge centrifuge for the living/working quarters.
You might be unpleasantly surprised at how big a centrifuge has to be to generate a decent amount of centripetal force close to equally over the average persons 6 feet as well as to keep the sideways forces to a minimum.
5. Lastly...engines. Banks of ion engines, the infamous and yet to be proven EM drive, or who knows what else.
See number 1, how the hell are you going to power it as steam engines don't work that well in space.