In fairness, borrowing more to spend, ie floating credit, does more to get the economy moving than saving that money. The government's goal was to spur the economy, and it worked.
Too much saving can have serious effects on your economy, which means less job growth and high unemployment. Although I do believe most Americans simply can't afford to save.
Congrats! Most people see being salaried as being more secure within the company, but you're absolutely right it just means they get to work you for more hours with less compensation. Unless you're getting stock or some other kind of compensation not available to the hourly workers that overtime pay wouldn't match.
I like telling sports guys, the ones who can rattle off who got the most hits in the 1912 World Series without blinking an eye, what complete nerds they are. Same with car dudes.
Most workers have been brainwashed that their benefits are on paper only. Sure you've got 4 weeks of vacation, but if you actually use them your team lead will start noting that you're falling behind the team, not meeting performance reviews, oh we're having a round of layoffs and Bill over here invented a new form of physics that let him work quadruple time, sorry not sorry the door is over there help yourself out.
Well, it's complicated. Some of the annotations are things like trade secrets and such from contractors contributing to and being referenced by construction bills and are very much copyrightable.
I suppose the state could setup a fund and provide copies of the annotated laws for free to citizens of the state and pay the copyright holders out of the fund. Depending on demand that might not be too workable.
Even odds they'll use this to try to sneak bandwidth caps on people. "No no, you can pay weekly for unlimited or buy by the Gb!" or some other new tactic like "Unlimited Emails and Texts $5 extra!"
It's not the laws that are copyrighted. It's the annotations which you need to really understand what the laws mean and how they apply. That's what's been copyrighted.
The annotations are notes by the writers of the law about what the law actually means and judicial decisions about the law. Without them the written law is barely useful.
Like, in the US you have the right to free speech.. except it mostly only counts when dealing with the government, and doesn't protect you at all in some situations, etc.
Music Industry CEO's claim that it's still not enough money to bathe in, demand more DMCA takedowns and strong arming foreign governments to change their laws, imprison their citizens on industry whims.
No, it's not. Goreans are like the Scientologists of the BDSM community. The novels the philosophy is based on are very much an "all males are dominant, all females are submissives" fantasy. It was only after 30 or more novels that the author started trying to add balance to them and that after a lot of heavy criticism.
Typically the only people who use the term SJW are bigots and racists who are butthurt over being called out by others. It's hilarious to hear them complain about lack freedom of speech and group think as they post Pepe meme's, call other people Cucks and do their best to curtail other's freedom of speech for not following THEIR group think.
Nobody has to hack YOU, they hack the website you log into and download all their passwords then just keep trying those password/username combinations on other websites until they crack another one over and over again. You individually aren't worth much other than a shim to try to break into the next web server. Your accounts could be shared all over Russian hacking circles and you'd never know until the website you use reports a break in that might include your login.
Smug people are just victims who don't know it yet.
Fact: nVidia writes their own blob and adapts it to the Linux kernel rather than open source their drivers.
Fact: nVidia fixes bugs but does not optimize this blob for Linux, it's the same blob Windows users get.
Fact: You are a pedant.
Fact: The number of installed Linux users using nVidia cards is insignificant in comparison to Windows users.
Fact: Windows users get ads, Linux users don't.
Fact: You are incapable of debating your point so you debate endless minor nit picks instead.
Fact: You can't prove that Linux has any mechanism in it to defeat ads being included during software install. So shut it, this thread is done.
I use OSX Linux, and Windows. It would be kinda weird to get butthurt over numbers.
Yet you burst out saying that I was "touting" Windows popularity over Linux etc etc. when I only made a relative comparison and no claims of better or worse. I stated a numerical fact. You brought the baggage.
And just out of curiousity, exactly what is the degree of difficulty in writing the code to serve up ads that makes it prohibitive to do this in Linux? You made the claim, you do the explain. If your logic held true, there wouldn't be a driver written for Linux at all - no driver period.
Difficulty isn't the issue per se, it's the investment of development time to write an installer that displays ads vs the expected return for said ads. Are we talking a fortune? No, but it's not something they've chosen to do, so far, either. The point is that it isn't impossible just because it's Linux.
You're the one getting butt hurt over numbers. Numerically, the Linux/nVidia install base isn't big enough to justify writing a custom installer with ads. You don't like ads, so why is that a bad thing? I didn't say it was a bad thing, I didn't say it was a good thing, it just is.
I did advise the person I responded to that they shouldn't feel special like somehow Linux is anti-advertisement, or that every program *has* to use their distro's installer, which they were being very smug about. There is nothing in Open Source that says a project can't use ads to pay for development.
Usually the people who complain that software B is hard to use have been using software A for 10 years and B is just different enough to throw them off constantly.
1) The moon is a perfect platform. Stable, predictable orbit to calculate targeting from, lots of raw material. Fairly low gravity well means easier to launch from. Inversely Earth's greater gravity well makes quick retaliation difficult and easily targeted.
2) You just need a mass driver long enough and an incline to get the launch object to orbit. You can build a shorter driver and slingshot your kinetic warhead to get extra speed or a longer driver and shorter time to target. Who cares if it takes 10 minutes or 3 days, depending on what you're aiming at. Bridges, dams, buildings and such aren't going anywhere.
3) A guidance system is trivial if you've gone to the trouble of building a moon base & launch system. So is a heat shield. We already build them into spacecraft so it's not like it's something never done before.
A car bomb can only be so big, and cities already have radiation detectors so nuclear isn't likely.
Ask India about private corporations practicing war. Or China. Read some history while you're at it. The East India Company ruled more of the British Empire than the Queen did.
A launched bit of mass from the Moon doesn't have to be exactly big to accomplish a lot of damage. Plus they can be much more strategic than a virus or chemicals. Hell, 5 ton package hitting a dam or a fault line in the right spot could do serious destruction. Just need a mass driver to launch it, some heat shielding and a targeting system. It's not exactly high tech, just takes someone to build it.
Since the US Military has contingencies for everything from Elves on unicorns to mass clones attacking with bent spoons, I bet they've got a plan in case China or Russia gets a foothold on the Moon.
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Except this apparently works in areas that don't get fog. The concept is kinda similar though.
Who needs a droid? Now put on your stillsuit and get out to the condensers.
Nerd!
In fairness, borrowing more to spend, ie floating credit, does more to get the economy moving than saving that money. The government's goal was to spur the economy, and it worked.
Too much saving can have serious effects on your economy, which means less job growth and high unemployment. Although I do believe most Americans simply can't afford to save.
Congrats! Most people see being salaried as being more secure within the company, but you're absolutely right it just means they get to work you for more hours with less compensation. Unless you're getting stock or some other kind of compensation not available to the hourly workers that overtime pay wouldn't match.
I like telling sports guys, the ones who can rattle off who got the most hits in the 1912 World Series without blinking an eye, what complete nerds they are. Same with car dudes.
Most workers have been brainwashed that their benefits are on paper only. Sure you've got 4 weeks of vacation, but if you actually use them your team lead will start noting that you're falling behind the team, not meeting performance reviews, oh we're having a round of layoffs and Bill over here invented a new form of physics that let him work quadruple time, sorry not sorry the door is over there help yourself out.
Well, it's complicated. Some of the annotations are things like trade secrets and such from contractors contributing to and being referenced by construction bills and are very much copyrightable.
I suppose the state could setup a fund and provide copies of the annotated laws for free to citizens of the state and pay the copyright holders out of the fund. Depending on demand that might not be too workable.
Even odds they'll use this to try to sneak bandwidth caps on people. "No no, you can pay weekly for unlimited or buy by the Gb!" or some other new tactic like "Unlimited Emails and Texts $5 extra!"
It's not the laws that are copyrighted. It's the annotations which you need to really understand what the laws mean and how they apply. That's what's been copyrighted.
The annotations are notes by the writers of the law about what the law actually means and judicial decisions about the law. Without them the written law is barely useful.
Like, in the US you have the right to free speech.. except it mostly only counts when dealing with the government, and doesn't protect you at all in some situations, etc.
Music Industry CEO's claim that it's still not enough money to bathe in, demand more DMCA takedowns and strong arming foreign governments to change their laws, imprison their citizens on industry whims.
No, it's not. Goreans are like the Scientologists of the BDSM community. The novels the philosophy is based on are very much an "all males are dominant, all females are submissives" fantasy. It was only after 30 or more novels that the author started trying to add balance to them and that after a lot of heavy criticism.
Typically the only people who use the term SJW are bigots and racists who are butthurt over being called out by others. It's hilarious to hear them complain about lack freedom of speech and group think as they post Pepe meme's, call other people Cucks and do their best to curtail other's freedom of speech for not following THEIR group think.
Nobody has to hack YOU, they hack the website you log into and download all their passwords then just keep trying those password/username combinations on other websites until they crack another one over and over again. You individually aren't worth much other than a shim to try to break into the next web server. Your accounts could be shared all over Russian hacking circles and you'd never know until the website you use reports a break in that might include your login.
Smug people are just victims who don't know it yet.
Fact: nVidia writes their own blob and adapts it to the Linux kernel rather than open source their drivers.
Fact: nVidia fixes bugs but does not optimize this blob for Linux, it's the same blob Windows users get.
Fact: You are a pedant.
Fact: The number of installed Linux users using nVidia cards is insignificant in comparison to Windows users.
Fact: Windows users get ads, Linux users don't.
Fact: You are incapable of debating your point so you debate endless minor nit picks instead.
Fact: You can't prove that Linux has any mechanism in it to defeat ads being included during software install. So shut it, this thread is done.
I use OSX Linux, and Windows. It would be kinda weird to get butthurt over numbers.
Yet you burst out saying that I was "touting" Windows popularity over Linux etc etc. when I only made a relative comparison and no claims of better or worse. I stated a numerical fact. You brought the baggage.
And just out of curiousity, exactly what is the degree of difficulty in writing the code to serve up ads that makes it prohibitive to do this in Linux? You made the claim, you do the explain. If your logic held true, there wouldn't be a driver written for Linux at all - no driver period.
Difficulty isn't the issue per se, it's the investment of development time to write an installer that displays ads vs the expected return for said ads. Are we talking a fortune? No, but it's not something they've chosen to do, so far, either. The point is that it isn't impossible just because it's Linux.
You're the one getting butt hurt over numbers. Numerically, the Linux/nVidia install base isn't big enough to justify writing a custom installer with ads. You don't like ads, so why is that a bad thing? I didn't say it was a bad thing, I didn't say it was a good thing, it just is.
I did advise the person I responded to that they shouldn't feel special like somehow Linux is anti-advertisement, or that every program *has* to use their distro's installer, which they were being very smug about. There is nothing in Open Source that says a project can't use ads to pay for development.
If they wanted, nVidia could write a Linux driver installer that showed you ads. The Linux install base is so small it's not worth it to them.
Your package manager isn't magic, and it only works because nVidia packages their drivers for simplicity. So check your smug.
Usually the people who complain that software B is hard to use have been using software A for 10 years and B is just different enough to throw them off constantly.
1) The moon is a perfect platform. Stable, predictable orbit to calculate targeting from, lots of raw material. Fairly low gravity well means easier to launch from. Inversely Earth's greater gravity well makes quick retaliation difficult and easily targeted.
2) You just need a mass driver long enough and an incline to get the launch object to orbit. You can build a shorter driver and slingshot your kinetic warhead to get extra speed or a longer driver and shorter time to target. Who cares if it takes 10 minutes or 3 days, depending on what you're aiming at. Bridges, dams, buildings and such aren't going anywhere.
3) A guidance system is trivial if you've gone to the trouble of building a moon base & launch system. So is a heat shield. We already build them into spacecraft so it's not like it's something never done before.
A car bomb can only be so big, and cities already have radiation detectors so nuclear isn't likely.
Ask India about private corporations practicing war. Or China. Read some history while you're at it. The East India Company ruled more of the British Empire than the Queen did.
A launched bit of mass from the Moon doesn't have to be exactly big to accomplish a lot of damage. Plus they can be much more strategic than a virus or chemicals. Hell, 5 ton package hitting a dam or a fault line in the right spot could do serious destruction. Just need a mass driver to launch it, some heat shielding and a targeting system. It's not exactly high tech, just takes someone to build it.
You'd have to get them to L1 first, I don't think anyone's ever proven a pre-existence of rocks there.
Since the US Military has contingencies for everything from Elves on unicorns to mass clones attacking with bent spoons, I bet they've got a plan in case China or Russia gets a foothold on the Moon.