As an AC up the page pointed out, a better analogy is some company, or rather a couple, running video cameras in all the stores you visit and tracking what you do in every store and putting it together in a way that a cashier following you around one store could never do. Still legal, but much more creepy, especially when it is all done without your knowledge.
Nobody puts a gun to your head and forces you to use Facebook. It's completely voluntary.
I'm finding it harder and harder to avoid Facebook, too many things happening on it or requiring it. Sure i can and do not get involved in my community because it now all happens on Facebook, can't even post a letter to the editor in the local paper because you need a Facebook login, and so on. As the article hints at, at some point Facebook will succeed in lobbying the government to require Facebook to access government services, unless you're willing to travel a hundred miles and find the room in the basement with the sign about beware of leopards.
The other thing with Facebook is I have to actively avoid them more and more as they're everywhere. Hidden scripts and 1 px images on unrelated web pages for example. I never agreed to their tracking me but they sure try, probably have a shadow account of me with too much info on it as I doubt that I'm 100% avoiding them.
So trees grow leaves and then drop them and they rot, simplified version. For sequestration, the CO2 needs to be permanently removed, not tied up short term. Here in BC, the forests are currently releasing about 3 times the CO2 as people, rather then sequestering it. https://www.nationalobserver.c...
Actually you can. You burn the trees without oxygen (or very little) and route the resulting gases into your engine. Really need a truck rather then a car though in Germany during the war, there were even motorcycles equipped to burn wood gas. It's also fairly efficient (need about 1.5 times the fuel compared to gasoline) and clean burning. Wiki has an article worth reading, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Existing CO2 can be removed from the atmosphere pretty quickly by photosynthesis.
Sure, pretty quickly to a geologist. I've heard various numbers for CO2 to return to preindustrial levels if we totally stopped today producing more through burning etc. The shortest numbers are on the order of a thousand years and most are higher. Equally important for natural CO2 sequestration is weathering, mostly silicate weathering, which involves a natural feedback mechanism. CO2 increases, temperature goes up, rainfall increases, more weathering.
While Linux is obviously superiour to Windows etc, most people can't review all the code, including user land. Look at OpenSSL and even bash having vulnerabilities for years. It's also really hard to guard against someone sneaking in and putting a key logger in your keyboard.
People can sell support for open source just like closed source. Redhat for example has made a business of selling support for mostly GPL software. Likewise, Motorola could be selling GPL software with a support contract, only drawback is that if they charge too much, someone else can offer support as the actual source code would be available.
>> Real transcription from an encrypted broadcast -->
Ex sea tollit torquatos 302.32 definitionem. Graeco imperdiet vim in, facete delicata 411 principes nam ad, no elit tota qualisque vis.
Invenire abhorreant cum ea. Per te dicant facete detracto. Ludus perpetua nec et, affert suavitate ad duo, saepe 112th semper habemus est et. Has sint possim detraxit ex.
After decryption -->
dispatch -- on route to investigate the 302.32 call. Send backup. okay car 411, proceed past the dunkin donuts on 112th street. and by the way, please pick up 2 dozen donut-holes for the second shift. we'll pay you when they're delivered.
Seriously, why are they using encrypted transmissions?
CAP === 'scorch'
To prevent outrage that the cops are buying dunkin donuts instead of timmies.
And, IIUC, GPL2 code cannot be relicensed to AGPL by anyone except the original author(s).
Actually the copyright holders Some projects make you sign over your code before they'll add it to the original project. Which does make re-licensing much simpler.
I guess I wasn't clear, it would be on a case by case basis and have to consider the law. Understand it may be illegal to discriminate on criminal history here if the person has been granted a pardon or a record suspension ordered. It's also not that hard to get a pardon, keep your nose clean for some years and pay a fee basically. Further it may be grounds for a discrimination case if the conviction is unrelated to the work.
What I heard was a futuristic way of dialing a number. A circle area with numbers that you touch and and drag in a circle. The further you drag, the higher the number that is entered. It'll also have feedback in the form of clicks, just go a little way, one click, a bit further, 2 clicks, right up to 10 clicks, which will bravely represent zero. Users will eat it up as it's modern compared to the old fashioned square number pad.
Are people who have been arrested and then released for whatever reason criminals. Are people who got convicted of having some pot 30 years ago criminals? Not to mention people who made a bad decision years back. It's attitudes like yours that leads to America having millions of people in jail, blanket generalizations rather then considering on a case by case basis, especially in a country where everyone commits a couple of felonies a day. Perhaps one day, you'll get arrested, threatened with multiple charges adding up to a good chunk of life in jail and due to spending all your money on medical issues, you won't be able to pay a lawyer, have to plead guilty and join the criminal ranks.
Well America does it privately. Credit bureaus to keep track of if you didn't pay back loans, lists of people who were arrested along with a culture of not hiring someone if previously arrested, as you must be a bad person if ever arrested and a really bad person if found or forced to plead guilty. As it is a private decision not to hire, rent housing etc it's considered fine. Government also gets involved with lists of people not allowed to fly, lists of people not allowed to live in certain places, lists of people not allowed to own firearms and even lists of people not allowed to vote. These lists usually make sense at first look, eg not allowing sex offenders to live by kids, until you look at all the reasons the government will put you on the sex offenders list.
Yet cars are highly regulated. All kinds of safety features required. Other requirements such as good tires required on the road. Licenses needed. Cops everywhere enforcing the various rules of the road. Meanwhile simple safety features like a safety or requiring x ounces of pressure on the trigger to fire the weapon seem to be a no go in the States as if requiring a safety infringes rights unreasonably.
In the case of BC, it was a right wing government balancing the books by demanding hydro pay billions in dividends to the Province. As well as deciding to build a massive dam without doing due diligence and forcing twinning of some power lines as they might be needed in the future. Now I understand that you're against hydro as it is renewable and figure we should all be burning coal but here in BC, we've been using hydro for over a hundred years and that is the source of 99% of our energy. (There's some remote communities burn diesel for power).
The early cassettes, really only meant for dictation, were much worse then 8 tracks. At that an 8 track could sound quite good, the tape was wider and IIRC, ran at a higher speed then a cassette. I had a copy of Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds that sounded excellent and my neighbour had Dark Side of the Moon in Quad on an 8 track that also sounded very good. Other 8 tracks sounded like crap probably due to cost cutting. Problems was the track changing, no reverse and they had a habit of getting eaten by the machine.
It happens quite readily because it is NATURAL for people to tend to congregate, associate and prefer to live with people that look and act largely like themselves.
We all as humans have a bit of tribalism baked into us.
There's nothing wrong with this, as long as there is no discrimination or that type action if someone prefers to live differently.
This is just naturally the way humans tend to act if not forced by outside forces, like the government.
How do you know this? It could just as easily be cultural. For example a culture that considers certain colours inferiour would resist the natural urge to breed for maximum genetic diversity. The urge to not inbreed is pretty powerful, yet we have groups that prefer their siblings, and consider themselves superiour for doing it
Which raises the question of whether there are enough psychopaths to fill all these shit jobs. Seems like something seriously wrong with society when so many jobs really need psychopaths to handle them or excel at them in the case of the top jobs (management type)
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And how do you decide who is the most productive? Most lines of code? Most bug fixes? Most hours spent at work?
As an AC up the page pointed out, a better analogy is some company, or rather a couple, running video cameras in all the stores you visit and tracking what you do in every store and putting it together in a way that a cashier following you around one store could never do.
Still legal, but much more creepy, especially when it is all done without your knowledge.
Nobody puts a gun to your head and forces you to use Facebook. It's completely voluntary.
I'm finding it harder and harder to avoid Facebook, too many things happening on it or requiring it. Sure i can and do not get involved in my community because it now all happens on Facebook, can't even post a letter to the editor in the local paper because you need a Facebook login, and so on.
As the article hints at, at some point Facebook will succeed in lobbying the government to require Facebook to access government services, unless you're willing to travel a hundred miles and find the room in the basement with the sign about beware of leopards.
The other thing with Facebook is I have to actively avoid them more and more as they're everywhere. Hidden scripts and 1 px images on unrelated web pages for example. I never agreed to their tracking me but they sure try, probably have a shadow account of me with too much info on it as I doubt that I'm 100% avoiding them.
So trees grow leaves and then drop them and they rot, simplified version. For sequestration, the CO2 needs to be permanently removed, not tied up short term.
Here in BC, the forests are currently releasing about 3 times the CO2 as people, rather then sequestering it. https://www.nationalobserver.c...
Actually you can. You burn the trees without oxygen (or very little) and route the resulting gases into your engine.
Really need a truck rather then a car though in Germany during the war, there were even motorcycles equipped to burn wood gas. It's also fairly efficient (need about 1.5 times the fuel compared to gasoline) and clean burning.
Wiki has an article worth reading, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Existing CO2 can be removed from the atmosphere pretty quickly by photosynthesis.
Sure, pretty quickly to a geologist. I've heard various numbers for CO2 to return to preindustrial levels if we totally stopped today producing more through burning etc. The shortest numbers are on the order of a thousand years and most are higher.
Equally important for natural CO2 sequestration is weathering, mostly silicate weathering, which involves a natural feedback mechanism. CO2 increases, temperature goes up, rainfall increases, more weathering.
While Linux is obviously superiour to Windows etc, most people can't review all the code, including user land. Look at OpenSSL and even bash having vulnerabilities for years.
It's also really hard to guard against someone sneaking in and putting a key logger in your keyboard.
Which is probably very true for the Winnipeg police. Don't want to publish dropping people off 10 miles out of town when its 40 below.
People can sell support for open source just like closed source. Redhat for example has made a business of selling support for mostly GPL software.
Likewise, Motorola could be selling GPL software with a support contract, only drawback is that if they charge too much, someone else can offer support as the actual source code would be available.
>> Real transcription from an encrypted broadcast -->
After decryption -->
Seriously, why are they using encrypted transmissions?
CAP === 'scorch'
To prevent outrage that the cops are buying dunkin donuts instead of timmies.
Manitoba isn't covered by American law. What the Manitobian law actually is, I have no idea.
And, IIUC, GPL2 code cannot be relicensed to AGPL by anyone except the original author(s).
Actually the copyright holders Some projects make you sign over your code before they'll add it to the original project. Which does make re-licensing much simpler.
I guess I wasn't clear, it would be on a case by case basis and have to consider the law.
Understand it may be illegal to discriminate on criminal history here if the person has been granted a pardon or a record suspension ordered. It's also not that hard to get a pardon, keep your nose clean for some years and pay a fee basically. Further it may be grounds for a discrimination case if the conviction is unrelated to the work.
Please keep your fantasies at least somewhat close to reality.
What I heard was a futuristic way of dialing a number. A circle area with numbers that you touch and and drag in a circle. The further you drag, the higher the number that is entered. It'll also have feedback in the form of clicks, just go a little way, one click, a bit further, 2 clicks, right up to 10 clicks, which will bravely represent zero.
Users will eat it up as it's modern compared to the old fashioned square number pad.
Are people who have been arrested and then released for whatever reason criminals. Are people who got convicted of having some pot 30 years ago criminals? Not to mention people who made a bad decision years back.
It's attitudes like yours that leads to America having millions of people in jail, blanket generalizations rather then considering on a case by case basis, especially in a country where everyone commits a couple of felonies a day.
Perhaps one day, you'll get arrested, threatened with multiple charges adding up to a good chunk of life in jail and due to spending all your money on medical issues, you won't be able to pay a lawyer, have to plead guilty and join the criminal ranks.
Well America does it privately. Credit bureaus to keep track of if you didn't pay back loans, lists of people who were arrested along with a culture of not hiring someone if previously arrested, as you must be a bad person if ever arrested and a really bad person if found or forced to plead guilty. As it is a private decision not to hire, rent housing etc it's considered fine.
Government also gets involved with lists of people not allowed to fly, lists of people not allowed to live in certain places, lists of people not allowed to own firearms and even lists of people not allowed to vote.
These lists usually make sense at first look, eg not allowing sex offenders to live by kids, until you look at all the reasons the government will put you on the sex offenders list.
Good to hear, as others on this site have stated otherwise.
Yet cars are highly regulated. All kinds of safety features required. Other requirements such as good tires required on the road. Licenses needed.
Cops everywhere enforcing the various rules of the road.
Meanwhile simple safety features like a safety or requiring x ounces of pressure on the trigger to fire the weapon seem to be a no go in the States as if requiring a safety infringes rights unreasonably.
In the case of BC, it was a right wing government balancing the books by demanding hydro pay billions in dividends to the Province. As well as deciding to build a massive dam without doing due diligence and forcing twinning of some power lines as they might be needed in the future.
Now I understand that you're against hydro as it is renewable and figure we should all be burning coal but here in BC, we've been using hydro for over a hundred years and that is the source of 99% of our energy. (There's some remote communities burn diesel for power).
The early cassettes, really only meant for dictation, were much worse then 8 tracks. At that an 8 track could sound quite good, the tape was wider and IIRC, ran at a higher speed then a cassette. I had a copy of Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds that sounded excellent and my neighbour had Dark Side of the Moon in Quad on an 8 track that also sounded very good. Other 8 tracks sounded like crap probably due to cost cutting.
Problems was the track changing, no reverse and they had a habit of getting eaten by the machine.
It happens quite readily because it is NATURAL for people to tend to congregate, associate and prefer to live with people that look and act largely like themselves.
We all as humans have a bit of tribalism baked into us.
There's nothing wrong with this, as long as there is no discrimination or that type action if someone prefers to live differently.
This is just naturally the way humans tend to act if not forced by outside forces, like the government.
How do you know this? It could just as easily be cultural. For example a culture that considers certain colours inferiour would resist the natural urge to breed for maximum genetic diversity.
The urge to not inbreed is pretty powerful, yet we have groups that prefer their siblings, and consider themselves superiour for doing it
Which raises the question of whether there are enough psychopaths to fill all these shit jobs. Seems like something seriously wrong with society when so many jobs really need psychopaths to handle them or excel at them in the case of the top jobs (management type)
There's still the better reception thing.
The problem is a public health system has to always think about expenses, so can't just budget "whatever it needs to be"