Freedom of movement is a natural right. Since in the case of driving, we must also temper that with the safety of others, we may allow for a license indicating that the driver has at least passed a basic safety test and hasn't given reason to believe they've become reckless, but that is all. As soon as you tie the license to anything unrelated to safe operation of the vehicle, you have admitted a back door exception to natural rights without proper discussion.
You might be surprised to learn that when drivers licenses first became a thing, there was considerable controversy. Many felt the government had no authority to require a license.
As for child support, if the father is denied the parent child relationship (for example by being told it isn't his), it seems reasonable that the support is null and void. And it is certainly unrelated to the right to freedom of movement.
Nothing retrospective at all, just unanticipated by someone who read for excuses to be a jackass rather than for comprehension.
It's funny how much more informative and interesting most reading is when you attempt to meet the writer in the middle rather than just looking for excuses for a brief ill-gotten ego stroke for oneself.
The two hour change in the morning comes with a two hour change in the evening. Meaning that young school children would start getting home well before their parents.
Teens are naturally night people. It's more or less hard wired for the majority of them. Younger kids naturally wake up early and fall asleep early (in spite of attempts to resist in many cases).
After the early 20s, many people shift to a mid point between the extremes.
Unfortunately, like many things we've squeezed all the slack out of the system and so we demand that people adapt to serve the social structure rather than the social structure adapting to serve the people.
But this plan was burning parent's money. It would make the older kids who would be fine at home alone for a few hours get home later and the young kids who shouldn't be alone that long get home earlier.
So take a single parent that's just managing and impose that on them and now they're fiscally sunk. I'm betting you'd complain about that too if you were in their position.
Actually, it flopped because they, like you, didn't consider the full effects of the change.
You see, if school starts 2 hours early, it means it lets out 2 hours early. No big deal if the high school student gets home at 2:30 or so when mom and/or dad don't get home until 6:30, but it's a really big deal if the kid is 5 or 6 years old. That's not minor adjustment level changes either.
So that's the real reason it failed, they failed to codify all of the constraints when they optimized the problem. They now need to either stay where they are, try again with the constraints corrected, or come up with a practical way to loosen the actual constraints that costs less than the current non-optimal scheduling.
You may have forgotten that this would also have the elementary school kids getting home 2 hours earlier when both parents are still at work. Many bosses wouldn't be that understanding about needing to leave 2 hours early every day.
And yet, by keeping it simple you get to use a bunch of well tested software that works on other things supporting that interface rather than developing new software for the special snowflake with a brand new batch of bugs and security holes. Not to mention breaking connectivity with existing utilities and so forcing each swiss army app to have a brand new built-in bug ridden yet another x.
In other words, not doing that is why we don't tend to have quality, fast, efficient, lasting, foundational stuff.
It only fails to solve the problems if it fails to run, or if it requires more computing power than is likely available.
Plan 9 suggests further improvements, but the resulting system strongly resembles Unix fundamentally. Essentually, in Unix, everything is a file. In Plan 9, everything is a filesystem.
As opposed to Windows where everything has an ad-hoc special snowflake interface.
To be fair, I actually do use the email, browser, and an ssh client on my phone quite frequently. The latter is not something I have ever seen on a feature phone.
What I don't get is skimping on the battery so you can make it thin enough to chop onions just to stick it in a thick case to keep it from breaking.
The Arduino lets you get right to the metal if you want. It supports inline assembler, has no OS, and lets you frob the hardware at will.
Most of the software is C with a few of the handy elements of C++ to keep it clean. It's not the sort of creeping horror C++ code that is all too frequently seen in userspace. You can skip the whole C++ thing entirely and stick to C coded in the old style of C as an advanced macro assembler if you like.
It's even harder for code to be high quality when every year the new shiny framework comes out rather than bug fixes to the old framework, so you re-implement everything rather than bug fixing your old code.
It's the churn that's killing quality.
For example, Debian Stable is stable because of a commitment to only make the changes necessary to fix bugs once a version goes stable.
The market only buys cheap because of the years of expensive brands turning out to be rebadged crap. It's to the point where paying more just means you paid more. So the consumers figure if they're likely to get crap either way, they might as well get cheap crap rather than expensive crap.
You can't just pay a bit more for quality because paying a bit more means nothing. You can't actually make something that costs a bit more due to higher quality because nobody will believe that it's actually better or that once you establish a reputation you won't cheap out and stick them with the same old crap in a more expensive box.
It might help somewhat if truth in advertising saw some meaningful enforcement once in a while.
In practice, it gives them incentive to be efficient on the server side by sweeping all the crap over to the client side while maintaining a few more efficient and critical pieces on their side so they can keep the customers at the trough.
The cost or quality of the hardware has little to nothing to do with it. Many flavors of Unix run just fine on mainframes, dirt cheap PCs, on down to a $10 SBC.
Talking fitness trackers mandatory for life of health insurance. No mute button. But it will provide very helpful advice. Obey or pay more than you make for a premium. For example:
Jim, you are not exercising enough. Cotton picking is great exercise. We have provided a field ready to harvest. Instructions are uploaded to your Phon.
Now, pick that cotton Jim.......more........more.......pick faster.......come on! Put your back into it BOYYY!!!
Have you seen an actual tour schedule? They may just do 1 or two shows in your town, but that's out of 6 months or longer touring. Then they need to find time to recover and then compose and record their next album.
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Freedom of movement is a natural right. Since in the case of driving, we must also temper that with the safety of others, we may allow for a license indicating that the driver has at least passed a basic safety test and hasn't given reason to believe they've become reckless, but that is all. As soon as you tie the license to anything unrelated to safe operation of the vehicle, you have admitted a back door exception to natural rights without proper discussion.
You might be surprised to learn that when drivers licenses first became a thing, there was considerable controversy. Many felt the government had no authority to require a license.
As for child support, if the father is denied the parent child relationship (for example by being told it isn't his), it seems reasonable that the support is null and void. And it is certainly unrelated to the right to freedom of movement.
Or when you realize that once it solves most problems, the only remaining issue is if it will run just fine on the new smaller hardware.
In the end, that probably is more cost effective.
No, it really is hard wired. There isn't much controversy in that position.
Nothing retrospective at all, just unanticipated by someone who read for excuses to be a jackass rather than for comprehension.
It's funny how much more informative and interesting most reading is when you attempt to meet the writer in the middle rather than just looking for excuses for a brief ill-gotten ego stroke for oneself.
I'm not here to spoon feed this to you. It solved the problems on minis and mainframes before. It still solves them now on PCs and SBCs.
If the horse isn't solving your commute problems, it may run but I wouldn't characterize it as just fine.
Given that the only legal fiction that would have any reason to care is currently pining for the fjords, no harm, no foul.
The two hour change in the morning comes with a two hour change in the evening. Meaning that young school children would start getting home well before their parents.
Teens are naturally night people. It's more or less hard wired for the majority of them. Younger kids naturally wake up early and fall asleep early (in spite of attempts to resist in many cases).
After the early 20s, many people shift to a mid point between the extremes.
Unfortunately, like many things we've squeezed all the slack out of the system and so we demand that people adapt to serve the social structure rather than the social structure adapting to serve the people.
But this plan was burning parent's money. It would make the older kids who would be fine at home alone for a few hours get home later and the young kids who shouldn't be alone that long get home earlier.
So take a single parent that's just managing and impose that on them and now they're fiscally sunk. I'm betting you'd complain about that too if you were in their position.
Actually, it flopped because they, like you, didn't consider the full effects of the change.
You see, if school starts 2 hours early, it means it lets out 2 hours early. No big deal if the high school student gets home at 2:30 or so when mom and/or dad don't get home until 6:30, but it's a really big deal if the kid is 5 or 6 years old. That's not minor adjustment level changes either.
So that's the real reason it failed, they failed to codify all of the constraints when they optimized the problem. They now need to either stay where they are, try again with the constraints corrected, or come up with a practical way to loosen the actual constraints that costs less than the current non-optimal scheduling.
You may have forgotten that this would also have the elementary school kids getting home 2 hours earlier when both parents are still at work. Many bosses wouldn't be that understanding about needing to leave 2 hours early every day.
And yet, by keeping it simple you get to use a bunch of well tested software that works on other things supporting that interface rather than developing new software for the special snowflake with a brand new batch of bugs and security holes. Not to mention breaking connectivity with existing utilities and so forcing each swiss army app to have a brand new built-in bug ridden yet another x.
In other words, not doing that is why we don't tend to have quality, fast, efficient, lasting, foundational stuff.
It only fails to solve the problems if it fails to run, or if it requires more computing power than is likely available.
Plan 9 suggests further improvements, but the resulting system strongly resembles Unix fundamentally. Essentually, in Unix, everything is a file. In Plan 9, everything is a filesystem.
As opposed to Windows where everything has an ad-hoc special snowflake interface.
To be fair, I actually do use the email, browser, and an ssh client on my phone quite frequently. The latter is not something I have ever seen on a feature phone.
What I don't get is skimping on the battery so you can make it thin enough to chop onions just to stick it in a thick case to keep it from breaking.
Actually, Word won mostly because it was more tightly intergrated into Windows and was able to use internal only APIs.
The Arduino lets you get right to the metal if you want. It supports inline assembler, has no OS, and lets you frob the hardware at will.
Most of the software is C with a few of the handy elements of C++ to keep it clean. It's not the sort of creeping horror C++ code that is all too frequently seen in userspace. You can skip the whole C++ thing entirely and stick to C coded in the old style of C as an advanced macro assembler if you like.
It's even harder for code to be high quality when every year the new shiny framework comes out rather than bug fixes to the old framework, so you re-implement everything rather than bug fixing your old code.
It's the churn that's killing quality.
For example, Debian Stable is stable because of a commitment to only make the changes necessary to fix bugs once a version goes stable.
The market only buys cheap because of the years of expensive brands turning out to be rebadged crap. It's to the point where paying more just means you paid more. So the consumers figure if they're likely to get crap either way, they might as well get cheap crap rather than expensive crap.
You can't just pay a bit more for quality because paying a bit more means nothing. You can't actually make something that costs a bit more due to higher quality because nobody will believe that it's actually better or that once you establish a reputation you won't cheap out and stick them with the same old crap in a more expensive box.
It might help somewhat if truth in advertising saw some meaningful enforcement once in a while.
In practice, it gives them incentive to be efficient on the server side by sweeping all the crap over to the client side while maintaining a few more efficient and critical pieces on their side so they can keep the customers at the trough.
The cost or quality of the hardware has little to nothing to do with it. Many flavors of Unix run just fine on mainframes, dirt cheap PCs, on down to a $10 SBC.
It would be nice to see some of the concepts from Plan 9 show up in a more broadly supported OS though.
One way to gain economic dominance is to convince the other side to blunder into an economically harmful decision.
Talking fitness trackers mandatory for life of health insurance. No mute button. But it will provide very helpful advice. Obey or pay more than you make for a premium. For example:
Jim, you are not exercising enough. Cotton picking is great exercise. We have provided a field ready to harvest. Instructions are uploaded to your Phon.
Now, pick that cotton Jim.......more........more.......pick faster.......come on! Put your back into it BOYYY!!!
Have you seen an actual tour schedule? They may just do 1 or two shows in your town, but that's out of 6 months or longer touring. Then they need to find time to recover and then compose and record their next album.