Well, it was George 3rd who issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which started the whole thing by declaring that people were equal, including the natives and papists. For the rich Americans, freedom was the freedom to steal, land from the natives, labour from the slaves adn keep those tax dollars local. They did end up with a Constitution that declared everyone free and some people were actually worth 3/5ths of a person as freedom includes the freedom to own people.
Old people in the country usually have family around to help with things like getting the mail from the community mailbox a couple of miles down the road and those who don't have family/good friends move to town when it gets too hard living in the country. Those in the city often don't have family or friends close enough to help and even going a couple of blocks can be hard at a hundred or even 80 years old. I've known a surprising number of hundred year olds living alone.
And when was the last time a bunch of armed Americans defied their government? There was the Whiskey Rebellion where the problem of a standing army was first shown. There was Athens Georgia where a bunch of vets broke into the armory and armed themselves and that's about it unless you want to count a few times when labour almost started shooting back in the 19th century, and they would have lost as the private police vastly outnumbered them (and out numbered the American Army).
If only Iraq had been set up with the same model - thongs might have gone very differently there.
It'd hardly make any difference as the burqa would cover the thong and sexy bits anyway. Or by differently you mean they'd wear it like superman?
Iraq was one of the few countries in that part of the world where women were treated as people. Allowed to get an education and allowed to wear dresses.
Free from debt? Free from crumbling infrastructure? Free from starving sick people? Perhaps even free from having to decide which con artist to vote in as Emperor.
While Russia and China are big enough to tell the USA to fuck off, New Zealand along with much of the world, isn't and will bend over. See the case of Kim Dotcom.
Law enforcement has been interested in political and religious ideologies (or lack of them in the case of religious) for as long as I've been paying attention. Depending on the country, if you lean left/right and whether you follow the established religion, along with how much money/power you have has always figured in to how much attention law enforcement gives you. At least most countries have been more up front about it then America where the propaganda has taught people that they're the free-est people in the world. Anyways, back to the Kardashians.
Better to say that the Stalinists really hated the form of socialism/communism that existed in Andalusia. Things really went downhill when the Stalinists showed up and Orwell had to sneak out of Spain and was harassed for the longest time. People like Bartles make the mistake equating socialism with Stalin-ism while even credit unions and co-ops are socialist.
Emergency services doesn't need a warrant to break into your house now, firemen are even traditionally pictured with an axe, just to chop down your door and save your life if your house is burning down. Nothing wrong with the info being made available in life threatening situations for the purpose of saving a life, just don't troll through the data and use it for criminal investigations.
Are you sure about the $87 for HPFS? I bought Warp V3 (redbox) for $50CND when it came out, OS/2 2.11 for the price of postage and eCS 2.1 (OS/2 4.52) for a $100 US. I think you're confusing HPFS with Win 3.1 which did cost about $87, at least the blue box editions were about a $100 more then the red box editions and the only difference was whether it included Windows or you used your own. The $1000 HPFS386 license fee was for Warp Server towards the end. MS broke Win32s (and Win95) with version 1.30 on OS/2 by loading some of the DLLs above the 1GB mark (might have been above 2GB) as no processes on OS/2 could use more then 512MBs, at least until Warp Server 3 or 4 and on the desktop, Warp 4.5 (Warp v4 + FP13). Even now you have to work to use memory above 1GB, eg this SM that I just compiled and am posting from needed -Zhigh-mem (with os2safe.h included to avoid loading any 16bit API high, 16bit functions are limited to addressing 1GB virtual memory) fed to GCC and then xul.dll marked to load code and data high. Using about a 1GB of memory I have 224,526,336 bytes of free shared memory. Building a debug versions I need the full 3GBs of address space to link xul.dll and the system swaps with 2GBs of ram
Yes, I forgot about the under God part, which just takes it to another level considering the 1st amendment. Opting out just led to a beating from what I heard and the idea of indoctrinating kids sounds like something from Soviet Russia. Perhaps your fine with removing freedoms from children that way but I'm not. It's part of the hypocrisy of America which changes it from not a bad place to a place where the people have been indoctrinated much as those countries that America traditionally hates. I've also met a fair number of American political refugees over the years, never a good sign when people have to sneak out of their country and claim refugee status to not be sent back and jailed, and just today I heard an ad aimed at people with dual citizenship and how they better be careful as the Americans will take their money that was earned out of the country and just how hard it is to actually renounce it. I can easily renounce one of my citizenships if I so choose and am only responsible to my country of residence.
Don't you guys have to pledge allegiance to the flag/country every day in school? My first hint to Americas true nature was when classmates had to go to school for a while in the States and came back with horror stories about the indoctrination. Along with all your anti-freedom laws (lots in the '60's), lack of following your Bill of Rights etc leads to the conclusion that America is a subtle totalitarian state, which figures that giving the people the choice between Coke and Pepsi means freedom, even if 7UP is illegal. Follow my sig for a description of inverted totalitarianism.
Even a month before the election they don't mean much. We had a couple of Provincial races here in Canada where the polls were totally wrong and the last Federal election was interesting as for the first time ever, it was a 3 way race out of the gate and all 3 parties took turns leading the polls, there ended up being a record amount of strategic voting giving the winner a bigger win then predicted.
Wasn't it President Franklin D. Roosevelt who with an executive order confiscated the property and put into concentration camps a bunch of natural American Citizens? Get people riled up and the Judiciary and the Legislature will go right along with the President. And I must say, from the outside your Judiciary has done a really shitty job of defending your Bill of Rights, some of which is so simple a 5 year old can understand it.
Most all device drivers are still 16 bit or at least need a 16 bit shim like Uniaud, the Alsa port (so support most current sound cards etc) which has a 16 bit shim to load the 32 bit part. The Gradd video drivers are 32 bit. As for HPFS, the story I heard was that IBM and MS agreed that a modern file system was needed and that that would each write one and use whichever was the best. The rules included being written in C and compilable for a 286. MS showed up with HPFS386, didn't mention it was written in 386 assembly and won the file system contest. Then when IBM learned that HPFS386 didn't meet specs, they had to rewrite it and that is the driver shipped with most all versions of OS/2. MS was charging about a $1000 for a HPFS386 license, the bastards. Eventually IBM rewrote the AIX JFS file system for OS/2, then ported it back to AIX (JFS2) and forked it into a GPL version for Linux. Then Mensys paid for a bootable version of JFS to be written so now there is no reason to use HPFS, especially with it only supporting 64 GB partitions and 2 GB files (and 2MB cache). Still shitty that the Linux versions license is incompatible with the OS/2 version and no manpower to port the fork back.
Last time I had to fiddle with cache settings was installing Win2k. Currently running OS/2 ver 4.52 on a TB Hard drive, Sata HD and DVD, 2 cores, 2 GBs of ram using JFS for the file system so chkdks usually consist of checking the journal and like with last nights power failure, takes a couple of minutes to boot up in worst case scenario. Basically need JFS anyways to get a large cache, large file (2GB+ files) support and large HD support. No more needing to know why that 0xDEADBEEF address was needed on HPFS (changed from per byte seeking to per sector so a program could manage the filesystem if it needed larger then 2GB files) OS/2 3.0 can use mostly the same drivers so has the same limitations. It does have a maximum limit of 2TBs hard drives due to using 16 bit variables for the CHS settings and with anything over 512MB HD, need to wipe the MBR and rewrite it to get the correct CHS values. Partitions also have to be set on cylinder boundaries so partitioning is best done with OS/2 aware tools, namely the LVM or third party DFSee. It's also very easy to have multiple installs so if you do need to do maintenance, just boot to a different partition. Shit if you wanted to, you could have 24 C: partitions (only one usable at a time though)
My brother bought OS/2 3.0 and installed everything on a 486DLC with 4 MBs of ram, totally unusable due to swapping so he gave it to me. First thing I noticed was that doing the install from 3.5 floppies, after copying the first 5 floppies to the HD and rebooting, the OS was actually usable, at least for reading the documentation as not much else had been loaded. So you could play with it while it was installing. I only had a 386/33 with 4MBs but by tuning it just right, using a third party shell rather then the WPS, it ran fine on 4MBs though I was happy to upgrade to 8 MBs. Now I have 2GBs of ram, 973,063 KBs currently free, and it runs very well. (Warp v4.52 SMP)
IBM had a license for Windows up to ver 4, which is why Win95 was version 4.095. The real problems with Win32s was that they required a VxD (or whatever the Win3.x device drivers was called) which had to be rewritten for Winos2. For a while there was an arms race where IBM would port the latest Win32s and MS would release a new one that broke Win32s on WinOS2. Then MS realized that OS/2 could only address 1 GB, 512 MBs per session and 512 MBs for the kernel. This was for 16 bit compatibility where a 286 could only handle a GB of virtual memory. So they hardcoded some DLLs to load above 1GB and broke Win32s with the release of Win32s 1.30. It wasn't until the server version (which also became the desktop version with FixPak 13) got the capability to address memory above 1GB that running Win32 programs became possible, using a combination of Open32 (the libraries for porting Win32 to OS/2) and Odin (think WINE, it used a lot of WINE code). A few programs were recompiled such as a version of Opera, some Adobe stuff and Flash. Later it was used to simply run the Win32 binaries, eg Flash 11. The high memory support is also needed for modern memory hungry programs such as Firefox and OpenOffice (no LibreOffice as they ripped out OS/2 support when they forked).
Mostly due to the faster file system. It was also nice that you could run each Windows program in its own session, Win3.1 wasn't too bad if only one program was running.
Were the users really too stupid to right click the folders background and choose sort or arrange? I know that Win3.x trained people that the mouse only had one button but OS/2 made full use of both including using (default but configurable) the right mouse button for drag'n'drop
OS/2 has supported USB since 1998 or so. The problem was that IBM wrote the drivers according to the official spec whereas everyone else was using the MS implementation, which as usual did not follow the spec. Currently the biggest problem is with Large Floppy Support, eg USB drives over 2GBs have to be partitioned and have the correct LVM info added.
Most of the device driver infrastructure was still 16 bit along with legacy APIs from OS/2 1.x and cmd.exe. The real test was that OS/2 got as much of a speedup on a Pentium Pro as any 32 bit OS unlike Win9X which did have critical 16 bit code.
The problem is that prohibition does not work. Prohibit women from legally getting an abortion and they will get an abortion illegally which presents all kinds of problems. Here in Canada Dr Henry Morgantaler started his (illegal at the time) abortion clinic when his receptionist came into work bleeding and damaged from an illegal abortion. Three times he was charged and tried for performing abortions, he'd get up in court, explain why he did abortions and the juries would find him not guilty (only took an hour the last time) and the public became very unhappy when the government used double jeopardy to convict him and throw him in jail after juries acquitted him. This led to laws and eventually a constitutional protection from double jeopardy along with other constitutional protections and eventually the anti-abortion laws were thrown out as unconstitutional. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Well, it was George 3rd who issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which started the whole thing by declaring that people were equal, including the natives and papists. For the rich Americans, freedom was the freedom to steal, land from the natives, labour from the slaves adn keep those tax dollars local.
They did end up with a Constitution that declared everyone free and some people were actually worth 3/5ths of a person as freedom includes the freedom to own people.
Old people in the country usually have family around to help with things like getting the mail from the community mailbox a couple of miles down the road and those who don't have family/good friends move to town when it gets too hard living in the country.
Those in the city often don't have family or friends close enough to help and even going a couple of blocks can be hard at a hundred or even 80 years old. I've known a surprising number of hundred year olds living alone.
And when was the last time a bunch of armed Americans defied their government? There was the Whiskey Rebellion where the problem of a standing army was first shown. There was Athens Georgia where a bunch of vets broke into the armory and armed themselves and that's about it unless you want to count a few times when labour almost started shooting back in the 19th century, and they would have lost as the private police vastly outnumbered them (and out numbered the American Army).
If only Iraq had been set up with the same model - thongs might have gone very differently there.
It'd hardly make any difference as the burqa would cover the thong and sexy bits anyway. Or by differently you mean they'd wear it like superman?
Iraq was one of the few countries in that part of the world where women were treated as people. Allowed to get an education and allowed to wear dresses.
Are there no Inuit left in Greenland?
Free from debt? Free from crumbling infrastructure? Free from starving sick people? Perhaps even free from having to decide which con artist to vote in as Emperor.
While Russia and China are big enough to tell the USA to fuck off, New Zealand along with much of the world, isn't and will bend over. See the case of Kim Dotcom.
Law enforcement has been interested in political and religious ideologies (or lack of them in the case of religious) for as long as I've been paying attention. Depending on the country, if you lean left/right and whether you follow the established religion, along with how much money/power you have has always figured in to how much attention law enforcement gives you. At least most countries have been more up front about it then America where the propaganda has taught people that they're the free-est people in the world.
Anyways, back to the Kardashians.
Better to say that the Stalinists really hated the form of socialism/communism that existed in Andalusia. Things really went downhill when the Stalinists showed up and Orwell had to sneak out of Spain and was harassed for the longest time.
People like Bartles make the mistake equating socialism with Stalin-ism while even credit unions and co-ops are socialist.
Emergency services doesn't need a warrant to break into your house now, firemen are even traditionally pictured with an axe, just to chop down your door and save your life if your house is burning down.
Nothing wrong with the info being made available in life threatening situations for the purpose of saving a life, just don't troll through the data and use it for criminal investigations.
Are you sure about the $87 for HPFS? I bought Warp V3 (redbox) for $50CND when it came out, OS/2 2.11 for the price of postage and eCS 2.1 (OS/2 4.52) for a $100 US. I think you're confusing HPFS with Win 3.1 which did cost about $87, at least the blue box editions were about a $100 more then the red box editions and the only difference was whether it included Windows or you used your own.
The $1000 HPFS386 license fee was for Warp Server towards the end.
MS broke Win32s (and Win95) with version 1.30 on OS/2 by loading some of the DLLs above the 1GB mark (might have been above 2GB) as no processes on OS/2 could use more then 512MBs, at least until Warp Server 3 or 4 and on the desktop, Warp 4.5 (Warp v4 + FP13). Even now you have to work to use memory above 1GB, eg this SM that I just compiled and am posting from needed -Zhigh-mem (with os2safe.h included to avoid loading any 16bit API high, 16bit functions are limited to addressing 1GB virtual memory) fed to GCC and then xul.dll marked to load code and data high. Using about a 1GB of memory I have 224,526,336 bytes of free shared memory. Building a debug versions I need the full 3GBs of address space to link xul.dll and the system swaps with 2GBs of ram
Yes, I forgot about the under God part, which just takes it to another level considering the 1st amendment. Opting out just led to a beating from what I heard and the idea of indoctrinating kids sounds like something from Soviet Russia. Perhaps your fine with removing freedoms from children that way but I'm not. It's part of the hypocrisy of America which changes it from not a bad place to a place where the people have been indoctrinated much as those countries that America traditionally hates.
I've also met a fair number of American political refugees over the years, never a good sign when people have to sneak out of their country and claim refugee status to not be sent back and jailed, and just today I heard an ad aimed at people with dual citizenship and how they better be careful as the Americans will take their money that was earned out of the country and just how hard it is to actually renounce it. I can easily renounce one of my citizenships if I so choose and am only responsible to my country of residence.
Don't you guys have to pledge allegiance to the flag/country every day in school? My first hint to Americas true nature was when classmates had to go to school for a while in the States and came back with horror stories about the indoctrination. Along with all your anti-freedom laws (lots in the '60's), lack of following your Bill of Rights etc leads to the conclusion that America is a subtle totalitarian state, which figures that giving the people the choice between Coke and Pepsi means freedom, even if 7UP is illegal.
Follow my sig for a description of inverted totalitarianism.
Even a month before the election they don't mean much. We had a couple of Provincial races here in Canada where the polls were totally wrong and the last Federal election was interesting as for the first time ever, it was a 3 way race out of the gate and all 3 parties took turns leading the polls, there ended up being a record amount of strategic voting giving the winner a bigger win then predicted.
Wasn't it President Franklin D. Roosevelt who with an executive order confiscated the property and put into concentration camps a bunch of natural American Citizens?
Get people riled up and the Judiciary and the Legislature will go right along with the President. And I must say, from the outside your Judiciary has done a really shitty job of defending your Bill of Rights, some of which is so simple a 5 year old can understand it.
Most all device drivers are still 16 bit or at least need a 16 bit shim like Uniaud, the Alsa port (so support most current sound cards etc) which has a 16 bit shim to load the 32 bit part. The Gradd video drivers are 32 bit.
As for HPFS, the story I heard was that IBM and MS agreed that a modern file system was needed and that that would each write one and use whichever was the best. The rules included being written in C and compilable for a 286. MS showed up with HPFS386, didn't mention it was written in 386 assembly and won the file system contest.
Then when IBM learned that HPFS386 didn't meet specs, they had to rewrite it and that is the driver shipped with most all versions of OS/2. MS was charging about a $1000 for a HPFS386 license, the bastards.
Eventually IBM rewrote the AIX JFS file system for OS/2, then ported it back to AIX (JFS2) and forked it into a GPL version for Linux. Then Mensys paid for a bootable version of JFS to be written so now there is no reason to use HPFS, especially with it only supporting 64 GB partitions and 2 GB files (and 2MB cache).
Still shitty that the Linux versions license is incompatible with the OS/2 version and no manpower to port the fork back.
Last time I had to fiddle with cache settings was installing Win2k. Currently running OS/2 ver 4.52 on a TB Hard drive, Sata HD and DVD, 2 cores, 2 GBs of ram using JFS for the file system so chkdks usually consist of checking the journal and like with last nights power failure, takes a couple of minutes to boot up in worst case scenario. Basically need JFS anyways to get a large cache, large file (2GB+ files) support and large HD support. No more needing to know why that 0xDEADBEEF address was needed on HPFS (changed from per byte seeking to per sector so a program could manage the filesystem if it needed larger then 2GB files) OS/2 3.0 can use mostly the same drivers so has the same limitations.
It does have a maximum limit of 2TBs hard drives due to using 16 bit variables for the CHS settings and with anything over 512MB HD, need to wipe the MBR and rewrite it to get the correct CHS values. Partitions also have to be set on cylinder boundaries so partitioning is best done with OS/2 aware tools, namely the LVM or third party DFSee.
It's also very easy to have multiple installs so if you do need to do maintenance, just boot to a different partition. Shit if you wanted to, you could have 24 C: partitions (only one usable at a time though)
My brother bought OS/2 3.0 and installed everything on a 486DLC with 4 MBs of ram, totally unusable due to swapping so he gave it to me.
First thing I noticed was that doing the install from 3.5 floppies, after copying the first 5 floppies to the HD and rebooting, the OS was actually usable, at least for reading the documentation as not much else had been loaded. So you could play with it while it was installing.
I only had a 386/33 with 4MBs but by tuning it just right, using a third party shell rather then the WPS, it ran fine on 4MBs though I was happy to upgrade to 8 MBs.
Now I have 2GBs of ram, 973,063 KBs currently free, and it runs very well. (Warp v4.52 SMP)
IBM had a license for Windows up to ver 4, which is why Win95 was version 4.095.
The real problems with Win32s was that they required a VxD (or whatever the Win3.x device drivers was called) which had to be rewritten for Winos2. For a while there was an arms race where IBM would port the latest Win32s and MS would release a new one that broke Win32s on WinOS2.
Then MS realized that OS/2 could only address 1 GB, 512 MBs per session and 512 MBs for the kernel. This was for 16 bit compatibility where a 286 could only handle a GB of virtual memory. So they hardcoded some DLLs to load above 1GB and broke Win32s with the release of Win32s 1.30.
It wasn't until the server version (which also became the desktop version with FixPak 13) got the capability to address memory above 1GB that running Win32 programs became possible, using a combination of Open32 (the libraries for porting Win32 to OS/2) and Odin (think WINE, it used a lot of WINE code). A few programs were recompiled such as a version of Opera, some Adobe stuff and Flash. Later it was used to simply run the Win32 binaries, eg Flash 11.
The high memory support is also needed for modern memory hungry programs such as Firefox and OpenOffice (no LibreOffice as they ripped out OS/2 support when they forked).
Mostly due to the faster file system. It was also nice that you could run each Windows program in its own session, Win3.1 wasn't too bad if only one program was running.
Were the users really too stupid to right click the folders background and choose sort or arrange? I know that Win3.x trained people that the mouse only had one button but OS/2 made full use of both including using (default but configurable) the right mouse button for drag'n'drop
I'm posting this from an OS/2 box (SeaMonkey 2.35ESR that I compiled), works fine on my old C2D and dial-up connection.
OS/2 has supported USB since 1998 or so. The problem was that IBM wrote the drivers according to the official spec whereas everyone else was using the MS implementation, which as usual did not follow the spec.
Currently the biggest problem is with Large Floppy Support, eg USB drives over 2GBs have to be partitioned and have the correct LVM info added.
Most of the device driver infrastructure was still 16 bit along with legacy APIs from OS/2 1.x and cmd.exe.
The real test was that OS/2 got as much of a speedup on a Pentium Pro as any 32 bit OS unlike Win9X which did have critical 16 bit code.
The problem is that prohibition does not work. Prohibit women from legally getting an abortion and they will get an abortion illegally which presents all kinds of problems.
Here in Canada Dr Henry Morgantaler started his (illegal at the time) abortion clinic when his receptionist came into work bleeding and damaged from an illegal abortion. Three times he was charged and tried for performing abortions, he'd get up in court, explain why he did abortions and the juries would find him not guilty (only took an hour the last time) and the public became very unhappy when the government used double jeopardy to convict him and throw him in jail after juries acquitted him. This led to laws and eventually a constitutional protection from double jeopardy along with other constitutional protections and eventually the anti-abortion laws were thrown out as unconstitutional.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...