How the hell can you have a pro-corporate, pro-money group and call them left leaning? By definition the left is for the people. So unless you're calling not quite as far right as most being left leaning... No wonder the American revolutionaries started out by purging the right wingers. And yes, Torie is another name for Conservative.
I live in a single payer jurisdiction and the same thing is happening, medicare premiums keep climbing, healthcare takes a bigger and bigger chunk of the governments budget, with no end in sight. There's a combination of factors, not even counting the greed of the insurance companies that you guys have to deal with. Aging population, which needs more care. Drug prices keep climbing, due to a combination of the pharmaceutical companies BS with patents and such (only going to get worse with the trade deals you guys are pushing) and more expensive drugs coming online. Even the diagnostic stuff keeps getting more expensive, with more and more expensive machinery. Then there is just other capabilities that have come on line. Need a new hip or knee? Well now we can deliver. I'm sure there is a lot more that I'm forgetting.
It's the 21st century, an operating system should be able to multitask. Should also be able to load DLLs, EXEs etc into memory and keep using them while replacing the binaries on disk, all in the background, at idle priority, and at the end ask whether to reboot now or later. And of course a laptop should be able to sleep or hibernate rather then shutting down in the middle of an update.
Nothing wrong with considering other countries court decisions when considering Constitutional issues. I know the the Canadian Supreme court has cited the American Supreme Court in decisions, though of course they are not bound by them. Things like cruel and unusual punishment are open to interpretation and I'm sure our Supreme Court would consider capital punishment to be cruel and unusual, though it was originally banned due to the will of the people, at this point it is unusual punishment, mostly done by extreme religious states and other types of authoritarian states.
Well it would sure be nice if these trade deals weren't so lopsided in Americas favour. Shit, even if America honoured her treaties things would be much better. Between illegal tariffs and American companies suing my government due to losing profits from not being able to dump poisons here America has come out ahead, not to mention all the out sourcing that America was happy to accept. The next treaties are just as bad for everyone else with the insane IP clauses designed to lock in Americas position
Well if the combination of a lake, river and canal is enough to split continents, the Illinois and Michigan Canal (later replaced with the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal) split N. America into NW America and NE America way back in 1848.
So you are saying that California, at least that part that is west of the San Andreas Fault, is a separate continent? Different tectonic plate you know. Then there are the parts of Siberia that are on the N. American plate. There a few definitions of continent with 4, 5, 6 and 7 continents depending on definition and being a human construction, they're all correct including the weird one that USA adopted about 60 years ago. Before that the Americans correctly considered that since North and South America are currently connected, they are one landmass and since continent basically means one land mass, they are one continent.
Actually recidivism is pretty low for sex offenders, at least relatively to most crimes. Turns out that most sex offenders are just sick people, usually due to being molested themselves as children and counseling etc can actually help them come to terms with what was done to them as children. It's funny how society feels sorry for the children, yet they're supposed to just get over it at 16 or 18 years of age.
There are lots of unjustly convicted people, especially in the States with their insane plea bargaining. Shit just yesterday, locally a woman had her guilty plea quashed for killing her step-child. Even the prosecution was arguing in her favour. Seems there was an expert witness, a pediatrician, who saw murder in every child death and was willing to get on the stand and commit perjury to convict. Quite a few convictions have been reversed due to his testimony being BS and in her case she plea bargained a manslaughter charge to stay out of jail. Witnesses are really crappy at remembering, cops and prosecution just want someone to do the time, juries are easily swayed, especially with horrible crimes like child molesting, you end up with way to many innocent people being convicted. Then there are the people who did something basically harmless, peeing at 3 in the morning in a park that children frequent is one example, there are lots of others.
Punishment is what the Judge hands out after a finding of guilty and is subject to Constitutional protections, eg cruel and unusual punishment is often Constitutionally banned. The way it works in Canada is you are only put on the list if a Judge puts you on the list at sentencing and the Judge only does if convinced it is necessary. We don't have people on the list who peed in the wrong place or who sexted their older 15 year old boy/girl friend or drunkenly passed out in the wrong bed. We also don't remove citizens firearms privileges without a Judge signing off on it, usually due to a firearms related offence, unlike America where it is supposed to be a right. We also have a right to vote that can not be removed by legislation.
Is it a supply and demand situation that sets the salaries or is it like some other situations where you have an in club who give themselves or each other raises? Considering how much executive salaries have increased compared to the workers salaries, supply and demand would mean that there are 10% or less executive capable people compared to when I was young.
Actually the surcharge or levy has not been extended to blank DVDs, flash drives, hard drives, etc, so it's just on video tapes, cassette tapes and the various CD recordable media. So blank DVDs are cheaper the blank CDs. The media companies didn't push to extend the levy after the courts ruled that paying the levy gave us a right to copy. So I haven't paid any money towards the levy since I upgraded from CD to DVD in my computers. Distributing is still illegal with a very liberal position on making available, eg you can download from my computer but I can't push to your computer.
The 2k limit was actually part of the copyright reform that the last government passed, along with making it illegal to break any form of DRM with only an exception for VHS tapes. Unluckily the new trade deals that both the previous and current governments are in favour of include some horrible updates to copyright and hopefully this government listens to the people about not implementing it.
As for going to court, so far the media companies don't seem to be doing more then making threats, often illegally by threatening to sue for much more then they can.
Well aware of the insane laws that other countries have and the problem of the politicians not caring about the voters as most of them get re-elected no matter what. Here the voters will punish the government (sometimes) by wiping them out
usually murderous rampages happen when people are hungry..
Just wait until the industry starts suing people who can't afford their shit for not buying their shit. Think they won't be hungry when the courts find against them to the tune of millions?
Good point
If you think it won't happen, you haven't seen it happening for over a decade. Thus far, they haven't been dumb enough to let more than a handful actually go to trial, but they're getting more desperate as time passes.
Perhaps due to not being American, I haven't seen this. Here file copying for personal use has been quasi-legal or totally legal in the case of music, for a long time. Even the latest laws put like a $2K limit on damages. This may well change and the people used to copying won't be happy.
Actually it is the publishers who have fought tooth and nail to ensure profits in perpetuity, usually in the name of the creators who they've just ripped off. Whether there will be murderous rampages over IP is questionable as so many people actually believe it is property and usually murderous rampages happen when people are hungry..
First world country here, about 40 miles outside a very expensive city to live in with some very expensive neighbouring houses. The lucky ones might be able to see a satellite, otherwise it's dial-up over barbed wire. Yesterday the best connection I got was 19,200 though the usual after 10 minutes of trying to dial in is 26,400. No DSL, no cable and no cell service. When the copper thieves strike, it's usually 8-16 hours for service to be restored and when the power is out, there's 8 hours of battery backup for the phone and often it takes 3 days for the power to come back on.
How much bandwidth do you need to download a key since the content is already on the disc? I think a dial-up connection would be sufficient for decryption.
That's assuming it has a serial port or at least a USB port to plug a modem into, a terminal program or at least a basic PPP with a user who can setup chat or whatever to get PPP to authenticate using PAP or CHAP, the user has a spare modem and spare phone line. Even in cases like mine where I use an old enough OS to allow dial-in to simply work and can do NAT to serve the rest of the household, the phone line needs to be open and as it seems to often take upwards of 10 minutes to actually connect, the drive doesn't time out.
It's always possible to be a criminal - but ripping, storing and viewing in your own home is actually fair use, protected and legal.
This may well be going away due to the trade agreements that the media companies have negotiated. Nothing in the American Constitution saying that fair use is protected and for most other countries, nothing in their Constitutions about copyright at all.
There's still a fair number of people without access to a good enough internet connection to make using Netflix etc possible and are stuck with physical media. The wife is one that would love Netflix but instead buys DVDs and the odd Blu-ray, mostly used. She actually doesn't like Blu-ray as it shows too much detail and would never want HD.
Venus may well have had life early in its history. We'll probably never know. We do know that there is a good chance that in a couple of billion years, Earth will be similar to Venus. The Sun keeps getting hotter, eventually (0.5-1 billion years according to current understanding) the oceans boil causing a runaway greenhouse affect, plate tectonics stop as they seem to depend on oceans, CO2 increases in a runaway manner and the Earth becomes Venus like. We have at least 3 planets in our solar system that were conducive to life starting. 2 of them didn't stay stable enough for life to advance much. What we don't know is how easily life starts and without knowing that...
Hard to believe that we're the only life. Now advanced life is probably pretty rare as not only conditions have to be just right, but they have to be just right for billions of years. A billion for the debris left over from the formation of the planetary system to decrease to the point that the planet is not getting hammered by big meteorites, perhaps a billion to evolve photosynthesis, a billion to oxygenate the atmosphere and a billion to evolve advanced life forms. Possibly quite a bit longer. We only have one data point. Now technological life forms are probably very rare. Seem to only have evolved lately on the Earth with mankind having spent 10's of thousands of years with the most advanced technology being chipped stone. If the universe is infinite, then anything that can happen once will happen multiple times
Have you ever read the description of the Christian heaven? What a torturous place to have to spend eternity. Even for those that love gold, I'm sure it would get old after a few billion years.
Actually you'd be stupid to try to put out the house fire if triggered by the volcano next door. Luckily it is usually obvious if the volcano next door is erupting.
Socialism is the people owning the means of production, not transferring money from the people to capitalists, a goal of many a capitalist. The smart capitalist uses his capital to write or influence the writing of the rules in such a way that he ends up with more capital.
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How the hell can you have a pro-corporate, pro-money group and call them left leaning? By definition the left is for the people. So unless you're calling not quite as far right as most being left leaning...
No wonder the American revolutionaries started out by purging the right wingers. And yes, Torie is another name for Conservative.
I live in a single payer jurisdiction and the same thing is happening, medicare premiums keep climbing, healthcare takes a bigger and bigger chunk of the governments budget, with no end in sight.
There's a combination of factors, not even counting the greed of the insurance companies that you guys have to deal with. Aging population, which needs more care. Drug prices keep climbing, due to a combination of the pharmaceutical companies BS with patents and such (only going to get worse with the trade deals you guys are pushing) and more expensive drugs coming online. Even the diagnostic stuff keeps getting more expensive, with more and more expensive machinery. Then there is just other capabilities that have come on line. Need a new hip or knee? Well now we can deliver.
I'm sure there is a lot more that I'm forgetting.
It's the 21st century, an operating system should be able to multitask. Should also be able to load DLLs, EXEs etc into memory and keep using them while replacing the binaries on disk, all in the background, at idle priority, and at the end ask whether to reboot now or later. And of course a laptop should be able to sleep or hibernate rather then shutting down in the middle of an update.
Nothing wrong with considering other countries court decisions when considering Constitutional issues. I know the the Canadian Supreme court has cited the American Supreme Court in decisions, though of course they are not bound by them.
Things like cruel and unusual punishment are open to interpretation and I'm sure our Supreme Court would consider capital punishment to be cruel and unusual, though it was originally banned due to the will of the people, at this point it is unusual punishment, mostly done by extreme religious states and other types of authoritarian states.
Well it would sure be nice if these trade deals weren't so lopsided in Americas favour. Shit, even if America honoured her treaties things would be much better.
Between illegal tariffs and American companies suing my government due to losing profits from not being able to dump poisons here America has come out ahead, not to mention all the out sourcing that America was happy to accept.
The next treaties are just as bad for everyone else with the insane IP clauses designed to lock in Americas position
Well if the combination of a lake, river and canal is enough to split continents, the Illinois and Michigan Canal (later replaced with the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal) split N. America into NW America and NE America way back in 1848.
So you are saying that California, at least that part that is west of the San Andreas Fault, is a separate continent? Different tectonic plate you know. Then there are the parts of Siberia that are on the N. American plate.
There a few definitions of continent with 4, 5, 6 and 7 continents depending on definition and being a human construction, they're all correct including the weird one that USA adopted about 60 years ago. Before that the Americans correctly considered that since North and South America are currently connected, they are one landmass and since continent basically means one land mass, they are one continent.
Actually recidivism is pretty low for sex offenders, at least relatively to most crimes.
Turns out that most sex offenders are just sick people, usually due to being molested themselves as children and counseling etc can actually help them come to terms with what was done to them as children.
It's funny how society feels sorry for the children, yet they're supposed to just get over it at 16 or 18 years of age.
There are lots of unjustly convicted people, especially in the States with their insane plea bargaining.
Shit just yesterday, locally a woman had her guilty plea quashed for killing her step-child. Even the prosecution was arguing in her favour. Seems there was an expert witness, a pediatrician, who saw murder in every child death and was willing to get on the stand and commit perjury to convict. Quite a few convictions have been reversed due to his testimony being BS and in her case she plea bargained a manslaughter charge to stay out of jail.
Witnesses are really crappy at remembering, cops and prosecution just want someone to do the time, juries are easily swayed, especially with horrible crimes like child molesting, you end up with way to many innocent people being convicted.
Then there are the people who did something basically harmless, peeing at 3 in the morning in a park that children frequent is one example, there are lots of others.
Punishment is what the Judge hands out after a finding of guilty and is subject to Constitutional protections, eg cruel and unusual punishment is often Constitutionally banned.
The way it works in Canada is you are only put on the list if a Judge puts you on the list at sentencing and the Judge only does if convinced it is necessary. We don't have people on the list who peed in the wrong place or who sexted their older 15 year old boy/girl friend or drunkenly passed out in the wrong bed.
We also don't remove citizens firearms privileges without a Judge signing off on it, usually due to a firearms related offence, unlike America where it is supposed to be a right. We also have a right to vote that can not be removed by legislation.
Is it a supply and demand situation that sets the salaries or is it like some other situations where you have an in club who give themselves or each other raises? Considering how much executive salaries have increased compared to the workers salaries, supply and demand would mean that there are 10% or less executive capable people compared to when I was young.
Actually the surcharge or levy has not been extended to blank DVDs, flash drives, hard drives, etc, so it's just on video tapes, cassette tapes and the various CD recordable media. So blank DVDs are cheaper the blank CDs. The media companies didn't push to extend the levy after the courts ruled that paying the levy gave us a right to copy. So I haven't paid any money towards the levy since I upgraded from CD to DVD in my computers.
Distributing is still illegal with a very liberal position on making available, eg you can download from my computer but I can't push to your computer.
The 2k limit was actually part of the copyright reform that the last government passed, along with making it illegal to break any form of DRM with only an exception for VHS tapes.
Unluckily the new trade deals that both the previous and current governments are in favour of include some horrible updates to copyright and hopefully this government listens to the people about not implementing it.
As for going to court, so far the media companies don't seem to be doing more then making threats, often illegally by threatening to sue for much more then they can.
Well aware of the insane laws that other countries have and the problem of the politicians not caring about the voters as most of them get re-elected no matter what. Here the voters will punish the government (sometimes) by wiping them out
usually murderous rampages happen when people are hungry..
Just wait until the industry starts suing people who can't afford their shit for not buying their shit. Think they won't be hungry when the courts find against them to the tune of millions?
Good point
If you think it won't happen, you haven't seen it happening for over a decade. Thus far, they haven't been dumb enough to let more than a handful actually go to trial, but they're getting more desperate as time passes.
Perhaps due to not being American, I haven't seen this. Here file copying for personal use has been quasi-legal or totally legal in the case of music, for a long time. Even the latest laws put like a $2K limit on damages.
This may well change and the people used to copying won't be happy.
Actually it is the publishers who have fought tooth and nail to ensure profits in perpetuity, usually in the name of the creators who they've just ripped off.
Whether there will be murderous rampages over IP is questionable as so many people actually believe it is property and usually murderous rampages happen when people are hungry..
First world country here, about 40 miles outside a very expensive city to live in with some very expensive neighbouring houses. The lucky ones might be able to see a satellite, otherwise it's dial-up over barbed wire. Yesterday the best connection I got was 19,200 though the usual after 10 minutes of trying to dial in is 26,400. No DSL, no cable and no cell service.
When the copper thieves strike, it's usually 8-16 hours for service to be restored and when the power is out, there's 8 hours of battery backup for the phone and often it takes 3 days for the power to come back on.
How much bandwidth do you need to download a key since the content is already on the disc? I think a dial-up connection would be sufficient for decryption.
That's assuming it has a serial port or at least a USB port to plug a modem into, a terminal program or at least a basic PPP with a user who can setup chat or whatever to get PPP to authenticate using PAP or CHAP, the user has a spare modem and spare phone line.
Even in cases like mine where I use an old enough OS to allow dial-in to simply work and can do NAT to serve the rest of the household, the phone line needs to be open and as it seems to often take upwards of 10 minutes to actually connect, the drive doesn't time out.
It's always possible to be a criminal - but ripping, storing and viewing in your own home is actually fair use, protected and legal.
This may well be going away due to the trade agreements that the media companies have negotiated. Nothing in the American Constitution saying that fair use is protected and for most other countries, nothing in their Constitutions about copyright at all.
There's still a fair number of people without access to a good enough internet connection to make using Netflix etc possible and are stuck with physical media.
The wife is one that would love Netflix but instead buys DVDs and the odd Blu-ray, mostly used. She actually doesn't like Blu-ray as it shows too much detail and would never want HD.
I have one here that's dated 1970, along with 3d, 6d, Shilling, Florin and half Crown from the same year.
Venus may well have had life early in its history. We'll probably never know. We do know that there is a good chance that in a couple of billion years, Earth will be similar to Venus. The Sun keeps getting hotter, eventually (0.5-1 billion years according to current understanding) the oceans boil causing a runaway greenhouse affect, plate tectonics stop as they seem to depend on oceans, CO2 increases in a runaway manner and the Earth becomes Venus like.
We have at least 3 planets in our solar system that were conducive to life starting. 2 of them didn't stay stable enough for life to advance much. What we don't know is how easily life starts and without knowing that...
Hard to believe that we're the only life. Now advanced life is probably pretty rare as not only conditions have to be just right, but they have to be just right for billions of years. A billion for the debris left over from the formation of the planetary system to decrease to the point that the planet is not getting hammered by big meteorites, perhaps a billion to evolve photosynthesis, a billion to oxygenate the atmosphere and a billion to evolve advanced life forms. Possibly quite a bit longer. We only have one data point.
Now technological life forms are probably very rare. Seem to only have evolved lately on the Earth with mankind having spent 10's of thousands of years with the most advanced technology being chipped stone.
If the universe is infinite, then anything that can happen once will happen multiple times
We still fall back on, who designed the designer.
In a infinite universe, any thing that is possible, such as life, will happen.
Have you ever read the description of the Christian heaven? What a torturous place to have to spend eternity. Even for those that love gold, I'm sure it would get old after a few billion years.
Actually you'd be stupid to try to put out the house fire if triggered by the volcano next door. Luckily it is usually obvious if the volcano next door is erupting.
Socialism is the people owning the means of production, not transferring money from the people to capitalists, a goal of many a capitalist. The smart capitalist uses his capital to write or influence the writing of the rules in such a way that he ends up with more capital.