The point is not that it affects all people. The point is to make it burdensome enough to hit some fraction, and hopefully combined with other effects, have it disenfranchise a group you don't want to have to actually pay attention to.
I am shocked, shocked that something which sounds like an urban myth would also just happen to support a policy principally supported by Republicans because it would disenfranchise far more then 2200 possibly fraudulent votes, which would be trivially verifiable if these people and their addresses were on official electoral rolls, which they would have to be.
This is even more shocking, because supercentarians are sufficiently rare as to be of some significant interest in human life-expectancy. It's almost like there's a vested interest in people ensuring they never confirm or find any real proof of whether or not this story is real.
Hi, I'm an electoral roll. Polling station staff check names off of me when people turn up to cast an anonymous vote. In this way, it quickly becomes apparent if a person claiming a particular name has voted multiple times, at multiple polling stations.
It turns out the rate of this happening is so low as to be nearly non-existent. It is metrically insignificant, since the small fraction of attempts do not result in enough votes to potentially change the result of an election, and if it did it would result in a re-run.
The thing about voter disenfranchisement is that it doesn't work nearly as well if there's mandatory voting. The proportion of people who turn up and will cast a donkey vote is much smaller then the proportion of people who will have an opinion when they know they have to vote, whereas the ones who would vote randomly disappear as statistical noise (since they don't vote in any particular direction).
Moreover, there's no faster way to highlight the BS than when you try to send a $30 fine (the fine for missing a federal election in Australia) to an entire district who just so happened to have only the 1 polling station.
So here's the thing: violence is easy to explain to children. "just don't do it". Is it sometimes okay? "yes, sometimes, in self-defense".
Try explaining sex and relationships the same way though. Try explaining why it's okay in one scene, but then between the same two people not okay in another. Given that their are legal adults who clearly do not understand this distinction, it is not unreasonable that sex tends to attract higher age ratings than violence. You can get through your whole life without needing to engage in violence. Sex and relationships therein ? Much less so.
Browserify lets me write a server, import modules with npm, then require() them in my clientside Javascript and have everything be automatically pulled in by npm. It means I can move logic client to server side trivially. node.js is a huge benefit to rapid web app development. I don't know that I'd implement heavy business logic in it, but when you're building a web app the client and server are fairly intimately tied together.
That's a level of seamless you just can't get from any other combination.
I really don't know what sysadmins can be complaining about with node. npm install and you pull in all the dependencies. Without needing superuser privileges, or performing system-wide installations. Node.js apps play very nicely together in my experience.
Of course he doesn't. He might as well have randomly picked any line from "dpkg -l | grep lib" and written the same article. It would've been exactly as sensible.
There are CONSTANT statements that if you do not use systemd you will not be able to use primary Linux distros in the future, because all software will supposedly be gobbled up by it as a dependency...
Okay. Now ask yourself why. No really think about it. What functionality does systemd offer for user facing software that makes it a dependency. Certainly not it as an init system, or its logging, or ntp, or any of the many other things it does.
I don't know the answer to this, but once you narrow it down you're on the way to resolving the issue. Software doesn't depend on systemd, it implements some feature that systemd provides. If everyone is so dead set against systemd then it should be fairly straight forward to provide a shim that exposes the required APIs so that your software is happy. That is typically how dependencies work.
Kind of like how one of uselessd's goals is to get Gnome working without any systemd connection. Based on the amounts of complaints there has to be at least 10000 developers working on the problem right now.
Isn't libsystemd a shim library? Isn't that it's whole point? Since you know, it gets installed without the rest of systemd by software which wants to connect to systemd if it's running but otherwise ignore it?
You need 120hz for VR displays, which is exactly where 8K embedded displays are actually useful, and the same reason John Carmack wants to try and cram that into an intelligent interlaced format to optimize for a 60 Hz capability model.
This attitude is part of everything that's wrong with the prison system. The idea that prisoners should be relied upon and expected to met out additional extrajudicial punishment to other prisoners. The idea that prison rape is "ok" because it's happening to other prisoners.
Also speed means the laser doesn't need to be highly destructive. There's absolutely no problem with simply locking a suitably powerful laser on a target and firing it continuously until the target undergoes a failure, because so long as your tracking is working you pretty much will never miss - there's 0 effective flight time on terrestrial scales.
Your argument is "the Sovereign should have all the power he wants, and every whim indulged, because the only other choice is anarchy, and life there is nasty brutish and short." Hobbes' Leviathan. The opposing political philosophy was voiced be Locke. Have you heard of him? Much of the US Declaration of Independence was copied from Locke's works.
What do you think it says that this nation was founded on the principle that your simple-minded view was so wrong that it's worth going to war over?
Your nation is a democracy. Represented by the people. If its not that, then it doesn't matter what you think. But you seem to think it is that. In which case, taxes go to the people, and for the provision of their needs.
Keep on chugging that koolaid. But there's no possible way Apple Australia earns $6 billion locally, with our local 20% corporate tax rate, yet somehow only pays $80.3 million in taxes.
It's bullshit, and everybody knows it. Except you, apparently.
I like how you have opinions on how to run a nation, but apparently are not familiar with Somalia, or its local conditions despite probably also being amongst those who were gung-ho about anti-piracy military operations in it's waters.
Actually plutonium is mostly just a biological toxin. Its a heavy metal that gets drawn into your cells and hits you about the same as say, a dose of cadmium breathed into the lungs would.
Radiation is a funny thing: alpha emitters are harmless outside the body, but incredibly toxic if absorbed. Gamma emitters are no trouble at all - they're no more dangerous (barring chemical toxicity) outside then inside since the radiation passes through all practical wearable shielding.
This is ignoring that the *thrust* requirements to go from LEO to Geo are orders of magnitude different though. You can get an a couple km/s delta-v from a cubesat with thrusters amounting to a taser and some metal - but you'll never get to LEO using them.
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The point is not that it affects all people. The point is to make it burdensome enough to hit some fraction, and hopefully combined with other effects, have it disenfranchise a group you don't want to have to actually pay attention to.
I am shocked, shocked that something which sounds like an urban myth would also just happen to support a policy principally supported by Republicans because it would disenfranchise far more then 2200 possibly fraudulent votes, which would be trivially verifiable if these people and their addresses were on official electoral rolls, which they would have to be.
This is even more shocking, because supercentarians are sufficiently rare as to be of some significant interest in human life-expectancy. It's almost like there's a vested interest in people ensuring they never confirm or find any real proof of whether or not this story is real.
Hi, I'm an electoral roll. Polling station staff check names off of me when people turn up to cast an anonymous vote. In this way, it quickly becomes apparent if a person claiming a particular name has voted multiple times, at multiple polling stations.
It turns out the rate of this happening is so low as to be nearly non-existent. It is metrically insignificant, since the small fraction of attempts do not result in enough votes to potentially change the result of an election, and if it did it would result in a re-run.
You realize that even the creators of that episode think they were being stupid about it.
The thing about voter disenfranchisement is that it doesn't work nearly as well if there's mandatory voting. The proportion of people who turn up and will cast a donkey vote is much smaller then the proportion of people who will have an opinion when they know they have to vote, whereas the ones who would vote randomly disappear as statistical noise (since they don't vote in any particular direction).
Moreover, there's no faster way to highlight the BS than when you try to send a $30 fine (the fine for missing a federal election in Australia) to an entire district who just so happened to have only the 1 polling station.
So here's the thing: violence is easy to explain to children. "just don't do it". Is it sometimes okay? "yes, sometimes, in self-defense".
Try explaining sex and relationships the same way though. Try explaining why it's okay in one scene, but then between the same two people not okay in another. Given that their are legal adults who clearly do not understand this distinction, it is not unreasonable that sex tends to attract higher age ratings than violence. You can get through your whole life without needing to engage in violence. Sex and relationships therein ? Much less so.
Just because you leave your front door open doesn't mean someone has a right to rob your home.
Who are you? What do you even do with the rest of your life when it's not waiting to post something about systemd in every single article on Slashdot?
Browserify lets me write a server, import modules with npm, then require() them in my clientside Javascript and have everything be automatically pulled in by npm. It means I can move logic client to server side trivially. node.js is a huge benefit to rapid web app development. I don't know that I'd implement heavy business logic in it, but when you're building a web app the client and server are fairly intimately tied together.
That's a level of seamless you just can't get from any other combination.
I really don't know what sysadmins can be complaining about with node. npm install and you pull in all the dependencies. Without needing superuser privileges, or performing system-wide installations. Node.js apps play very nicely together in my experience.
Yes. All that free software is being so unfairly kept from you.
Of course he doesn't. He might as well have randomly picked any line from "dpkg -l | grep lib" and written the same article. It would've been exactly as sensible.
Mint also works just fine with systemd, the biggest problem was needing an mdm.service file (which is now in MDM head i believe anyway).
Yes. Welcome to parallel programming and all serious software development since the 1980s. It's complicated. Get used to it or stop worrying about it.
There are CONSTANT statements that if you do not use systemd you will not be able to use primary Linux distros in the future, because all software will supposedly be gobbled up by it as a dependency...
Okay. Now ask yourself why. No really think about it. What functionality does systemd offer for user facing software that makes it a dependency. Certainly not it as an init system, or its logging, or ntp, or any of the many other things it does.
I don't know the answer to this, but once you narrow it down you're on the way to resolving the issue. Software doesn't depend on systemd, it implements some feature that systemd provides. If everyone is so dead set against systemd then it should be fairly straight forward to provide a shim that exposes the required APIs so that your software is happy. That is typically how dependencies work.
Kind of like how one of uselessd's goals is to get Gnome working without any systemd connection. Based on the amounts of complaints there has to be at least 10000 developers working on the problem right now.
Isn't libsystemd a shim library? Isn't that it's whole point? Since you know, it gets installed without the rest of systemd by software which wants to connect to systemd if it's running but otherwise ignore it?
You need 120hz for VR displays, which is exactly where 8K embedded displays are actually useful, and the same reason John Carmack wants to try and cram that into an intelligent interlaced format to optimize for a 60 Hz capability model.
This attitude is part of everything that's wrong with the prison system. The idea that prisoners should be relied upon and expected to met out additional extrajudicial punishment to other prisoners. The idea that prison rape is "ok" because it's happening to other prisoners.
It's the pulse rate of the radio. The radio turns on and off at audio frequencies, so the interference smears out to become the classic chirp sound.
Also speed means the laser doesn't need to be highly destructive. There's absolutely no problem with simply locking a suitably powerful laser on a target and firing it continuously until the target undergoes a failure, because so long as your tracking is working you pretty much will never miss - there's 0 effective flight time on terrestrial scales.
Your argument is "the Sovereign should have all the power he wants, and every whim indulged, because the only other choice is anarchy, and life there is nasty brutish and short." Hobbes' Leviathan. The opposing political philosophy was voiced be Locke. Have you heard of him? Much of the US Declaration of Independence was copied from Locke's works.
What do you think it says that this nation was founded on the principle that your simple-minded view was so wrong that it's worth going to war over?
Your nation is a democracy. Represented by the people. If its not that, then it doesn't matter what you think. But you seem to think it is that. In which case, taxes go to the people, and for the provision of their needs.
Keep on chugging that koolaid. But there's no possible way Apple Australia earns $6 billion locally, with our local 20% corporate tax rate, yet somehow only pays $80.3 million in taxes.
It's bullshit, and everybody knows it. Except you, apparently.
I like how you have opinions on how to run a nation, but apparently are not familiar with Somalia, or its local conditions despite probably also being amongst those who were gung-ho about anti-piracy military operations in it's waters.
That only seems to matter to the NRA crowd when it's guns. Race, religion, sexuality, habeas corpus? Eh...whatever.
Actually plutonium is mostly just a biological toxin. Its a heavy metal that gets drawn into your cells and hits you about the same as say, a dose of cadmium breathed into the lungs would.
Radiation is a funny thing: alpha emitters are harmless outside the body, but incredibly toxic if absorbed. Gamma emitters are no trouble at all - they're no more dangerous (barring chemical toxicity) outside then inside since the radiation passes through all practical wearable shielding.
This is ignoring that the *thrust* requirements to go from LEO to Geo are orders of magnitude different though. You can get an a couple km/s delta-v from a cubesat with thrusters amounting to a taser and some metal - but you'll never get to LEO using them.