Dude, by definition, DSL comes in over your phone line. You don't need to have phone *service*; this is called 'dry loop' or 'naked' DSL, but there still needs to be copper coming in to your location to carry the signal.
Do you know why the Liberal Party of Ontario no longer exists after 15 years of power.
Same reason Alberta went NDP: too many parties on one side of the spectrum, not enough on the other. Ontario split their left wing vote between the Liberals, NDP and Green parties.
What? No, they don't. What do you think Law is? Where does it come from and what is its purpose?
Law is a set of prohibitions against activites. The people decide, for example, 'we don't want to be killed walking to the store' so the government makes a law. Then it gets complicated, and it's why we have murder in the first degree, murder in the second degree, voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, and vehicular manslaughter, with defenses of self defense, necessity, and so on, rather than 'thou shalt not kill.'
So, people in the state of Examplia decide 'we don't want poison in our water.' Guess what? Now government has to make all sorts of decisions that impact the liberty of all sorts of people. Turns out ChemCo Inc, a huge factory at the norther border of the state, dumps it's industrial waste into the river that flows through the rest of the state. Hey ChemCo Inc, now you don't get to dump your waste into the river. So now ChemCo has to lay people off. The government has just made a decision that affected the jobs and lives of people who didn't have anything to do it. I'll bet the people who worked at ChemCo, and were upriver of the pollution, didn't care.
Now, I happen to agree that 'guaranteed jobs' is a terrible idea, but I'm still wondering about UBI; the idea of taking all of the patchwork of social assistance and what not and rolling it into one blanket thing doesn't seem like that bad of an idea.
"Guaranteed jobs", other than being impossible, requires that government make employment decisions for everyone, negating their freedom to choose their own path but without protecting the rights of anyone else as just laws require. In fact, everyone's right to freely participate in the labor market is seized as they are subjugated to an illegitimate authority.
ALL laws require that government make decisions for everyone. The government has already decided that you're not 'at liberty' to perform certain work.
Again, though, if the electorate, in full and fair elections, decides they want guaranteed jobs or UBI, would that not exactly fit your definition of OK?
You say my rephrasing is venal, but you don't actually refute it. You just reject it because you don't like it.
No, you won't. You can already make a plastic single-shot gun from a few parts you pick up at Home Depot or equivalent. Or a metal one, for that matter.
It's not that hard to go from there to breech loading, to repeating, to removable magazine, with some very basic machining tools and knowledge.
Ok, people can make their own economic decisions. Does that mean that I, as a business owner, am free to choose to enter into a price fixing scheme with the rest of my industry? Does this mean that I, as a business owner, am allowed to cut safety procedures for my workers? Does this mean that I, as a business owner, can choose to pay my workers in company scrip, redeemable only at my company store, and for company lodgings?
You'll say 'they're free to not work there.' But in a lot of cases, they aren't, realistically.
I read a book called '400 Things Cops Know.' One of the things is that if a cop wants to pull over a car, they just follow it to the next stop sign. Nobody ever actually comes to a full stop for a stop sign, but legally you're supposed to. So, they pull you over for 'failure to stop at a stop sign' and go from there.
Is it reasonable to expect someone ready to kill themselves to properly evaluate the impact of their actions on others, and is it reasonable to use their assets as compensation for that harm are fair questions to ask.
It may not even have anything to do with using 'their' assets. If you're, say, a city bus driver, and you plow into a pedestrian who is, in a legal manner, crossing the road, you're a criminal who deserves no compensation. If you're a city bus driver who is harmed on the job through no fault of their own, you're entitled to compensation.
A person who committed suicide does not harm another intentionally or directly.
A person who commits suicide by throwing themselves in front of a vehicle being piloted by somebody else most certainly has intentionally harmed said driver.
You're confusing the Fermi Paradox with the Drake Equation.
The Drake Equation is a thought experiment, and is basically intended to demonstrate that so long as none of the values is 'absolutely zero,' life should be all over the damn place.
The Fermi Paradox is literally just a man in a village circa 10,000 BC saying 'well, I've never met somebody from somewhere else, so there mustn't be anybody else out there.'
This. It's within my own lifetime that scientists were pretty sure that no lifeforms could exist on Earth that weren't part of a solar foodchain. Surprise! We're finding life in all sorts of 'impossible' places right here.
You also get the supreme arrogance that is the assumption that we'd recognize signs of an alien civilization.
Take this thought experiment. What's the most recent decade that you could pluck a team of scientists, with fully stocked contemporary laboratories, put them in a sealed room, and have them wind up watching Netflix? That is to say, could a team of scientists, from 1990, with 1990s equipment, intercept, identify, decode, decrypt, reconstruct, and view a random Netflix stream that somebody a room over is watching on their smartphone over wi-fi? Could a team from the 1980s? The 1970s? 1960s? 1950s? 1940s?
Sorry, no, you're clearly full of shit and talking out of your ass.
The Liberal Party of Ontation (provincial) is a separate entity from the Liberal Party of Canada (federal). The federal entity has no authority over the provincial entity.
They share a name, but they're not the same entity. We can (and do) get provincial Liberal governments picking fights with Federal Liberal governments.
So stop talking like you know what the fuck you're saying, because you clearly don't.
This had nothing to do with Justin Trudeau, and everything to do with a provincial government which had been in power for about 15 years, and whose leader/former Premiere pissed a lot of people off.
All of this is true, plus the fact that Ontario has three major left wing parties, and one major right wing party. Guess who won several ridings strictly due to vote splitting? It was exactly the same thing that happened in Alberta, only in reverse.
Personally, I have no idea why anybody who considers themselves even slightly 'conservative' would ever vote for a guy who's major platform promises included outright price fixing and other anti-free-market stuff.
How is QA going to tell you that most players are ignoring the Engineer class because it's not as fun to play as the Soldier class? How is QA going to tell you how many people choose to sacrifice person A versus person B in the exciting conclusion to the second act? How is QA going to tell you that new players are quitting in droves for the tutorial about the cover mechanics?
Point of order: in Canada, a semi-automatic AR-15 is considered a 'restricted' firearm. Most handguns are also 'restricted.' The main difference between a 'restricted' firearm and an 'non-restricted' firearm such as a shotgun or non-AR-15 rifle are a) stricter storage and transport laws, and b) can only be fired at an approved range; not usable for hunting, shootable on public Crown Land, in your back yard if you have the space, and so on.
There's nothing preventing a licensed Canadian gun owner from using a handgun or AR-15 for home defense, other than the fact that you'll be charge with unsafe storage pretty much automatically, on the theory that if you had the firearm stored correctly, you'd be dead before you could get it out.
Executive 1: Damn, we're a billion euros in the hole. There goes my profit sharing. Executive 2: Yeah. We'll have to make that billion up somewhere. Executive 1: Not to mention the money we're going to lose refitting stock, increased governmental scrutiny, blah blah blah. Executive 2: Guess we'll need to bump up prices on everything. Executive 1: Yup.
So at your home office you have your multi-monitor setup, and at your on-site office you have your multimonitor setup, and now you have a 'portable' workstation that you can more easily lug between the two.
Shit, I remember visiting a rural relative about, oh, twenty, maybe twenty-five years ago, still had a party line.
I also remember having 'pen pals' which involved writing on special extra-thin paper, envelopes with red and blue stripes on the border, and waiting six to eight weeks to reply.
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Dude, by definition, DSL comes in over your phone line. You don't need to have phone *service*; this is called 'dry loop' or 'naked' DSL, but there still needs to be copper coming in to your location to carry the signal.
Crazy Taxi.
Same reason Alberta went NDP: too many parties on one side of the spectrum, not enough on the other. Ontario split their left wing vote between the Liberals, NDP and Green parties.
Law is a set of prohibitions against activites. The people decide, for example, 'we don't want to be killed walking to the store' so the government makes a law. Then it gets complicated, and it's why we have murder in the first degree, murder in the second degree, voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, and vehicular manslaughter, with defenses of self defense, necessity, and so on, rather than 'thou shalt not kill.'
So, people in the state of Examplia decide 'we don't want poison in our water.' Guess what? Now government has to make all sorts of decisions that impact the liberty of all sorts of people. Turns out ChemCo Inc, a huge factory at the norther border of the state, dumps it's industrial waste into the river that flows through the rest of the state. Hey ChemCo Inc, now you don't get to dump your waste into the river. So now ChemCo has to lay people off. The government has just made a decision that affected the jobs and lives of people who didn't have anything to do it. I'll bet the people who worked at ChemCo, and were upriver of the pollution, didn't care.
Now, I happen to agree that 'guaranteed jobs' is a terrible idea, but I'm still wondering about UBI; the idea of taking all of the patchwork of social assistance and what not and rolling it into one blanket thing doesn't seem like that bad of an idea.
ALL laws require that government make decisions for everyone. The government has already decided that you're not 'at liberty' to perform certain work.
Again, though, if the electorate, in full and fair elections, decides they want guaranteed jobs or UBI, would that not exactly fit your definition of OK?
You say my rephrasing is venal, but you don't actually refute it. You just reject it because you don't like it.
No, you won't. You can already make a plastic single-shot gun from a few parts you pick up at Home Depot or equivalent. Or a metal one, for that matter.
It's not that hard to go from there to breech loading, to repeating, to removable magazine, with some very basic machining tools and knowledge.
Ok, so 'liberty' means 'follow the rules that I agree with.'
Or is what you're saying that 'Guaranteed Jobs' and UBI would be fine, as long as 50.001 percent of the populace voted for it?
What is 'Liberty?'
Ok, people can make their own economic decisions. Does that mean that I, as a business owner, am free to choose to enter into a price fixing scheme with the rest of my industry? Does this mean that I, as a business owner, am allowed to cut safety procedures for my workers? Does this mean that I, as a business owner, can choose to pay my workers in company scrip, redeemable only at my company store, and for company lodgings?
You'll say 'they're free to not work there.' But in a lot of cases, they aren't, realistically.
And back in the day, 5 megabyte hard drives were the size of dishwashers. What's your point?
Because people will blindly hit the 'OK' button, have problems, and blame the software.
I still hold a special place in my heart for Omega
I read a book called '400 Things Cops Know.' One of the things is that if a cop wants to pull over a car, they just follow it to the next stop sign. Nobody ever actually comes to a full stop for a stop sign, but legally you're supposed to. So, they pull you over for 'failure to stop at a stop sign' and go from there.
It may not even have anything to do with using 'their' assets. If you're, say, a city bus driver, and you plow into a pedestrian who is, in a legal manner, crossing the road, you're a criminal who deserves no compensation. If you're a city bus driver who is harmed on the job through no fault of their own, you're entitled to compensation.
A person who commits suicide by throwing themselves in front of a vehicle being piloted by somebody else most certainly has intentionally harmed said driver.
In other words, you want to set up an official, institutionalized DDOS?
I mean, what's the prevent a bad actor from pushing this list to providers which will cut off people for days, with no oversight?
You might find the concept of the Philosophical Zombie interesting, if you're not already aware of it.
Robert J. Sawyer has an excellent piece of fiction exploring the idea called Quantum Night.
You're confusing the Fermi Paradox with the Drake Equation.
The Drake Equation is a thought experiment, and is basically intended to demonstrate that so long as none of the values is 'absolutely zero,' life should be all over the damn place.
The Fermi Paradox is literally just a man in a village circa 10,000 BC saying 'well, I've never met somebody from somewhere else, so there mustn't be anybody else out there.'
This. It's within my own lifetime that scientists were pretty sure that no lifeforms could exist on Earth that weren't part of a solar foodchain. Surprise! We're finding life in all sorts of 'impossible' places right here.
You also get the supreme arrogance that is the assumption that we'd recognize signs of an alien civilization.
Take this thought experiment. What's the most recent decade that you could pluck a team of scientists, with fully stocked contemporary laboratories, put them in a sealed room, and have them wind up watching Netflix? That is to say, could a team of scientists, from 1990, with 1990s equipment, intercept, identify, decode, decrypt, reconstruct, and view a random Netflix stream that somebody a room over is watching on their smartphone over wi-fi? Could a team from the 1980s? The 1970s? 1960s? 1950s? 1940s?
The very reductive, overly-simplified short form is 'personal asks you for THE wi-fi password. Enterprise asks you for YOUR wi-fi password.'
All of this is true, plus the fact that Ontario has three major left wing parties, and one major right wing party. Guess who won several ridings strictly due to vote splitting? It was exactly the same thing that happened in Alberta, only in reverse.
Personally, I have no idea why anybody who considers themselves even slightly 'conservative' would ever vote for a guy who's major platform promises included outright price fixing and other anti-free-market stuff.
How is QA going to tell you that most players are ignoring the Engineer class because it's not as fun to play as the Soldier class? How is QA going to tell you how many people choose to sacrifice person A versus person B in the exciting conclusion to the second act? How is QA going to tell you that new players are quitting in droves for the tutorial about the cover mechanics?
Point of order: in Canada, a semi-automatic AR-15 is considered a 'restricted' firearm. Most handguns are also 'restricted.' The main difference between a 'restricted' firearm and an 'non-restricted' firearm such as a shotgun or non-AR-15 rifle are a) stricter storage and transport laws, and b) can only be fired at an approved range; not usable for hunting, shootable on public Crown Land, in your back yard if you have the space, and so on.
There's nothing preventing a licensed Canadian gun owner from using a handgun or AR-15 for home defense, other than the fact that you'll be charge with unsafe storage pretty much automatically, on the theory that if you had the firearm stored correctly, you'd be dead before you could get it out.
Executive 1: Damn, we're a billion euros in the hole. There goes my profit sharing.
Executive 2: Yeah. We'll have to make that billion up somewhere.
Executive 1: Not to mention the money we're going to lose refitting stock, increased governmental scrutiny, blah blah blah.
Executive 2: Guess we'll need to bump up prices on everything.
Executive 1: Yup.
So at your home office you have your multi-monitor setup, and at your on-site office you have your multimonitor setup, and now you have a 'portable' workstation that you can more easily lug between the two.
Shit, I remember visiting a rural relative about, oh, twenty, maybe twenty-five years ago, still had a party line.
I also remember having 'pen pals' which involved writing on special extra-thin paper, envelopes with red and blue stripes on the border, and waiting six to eight weeks to reply.