Fire fighting actually had a less social origin. The first formal fire-fighting organisations were in London, and private businesses. They ran on the insurance model: Property owners paid a fixed due on intervals for protection, and if their property caught fire then the fire engine would be dispatched (Along with men to pump it - this was pre-engine, all hand driven) and the firemen would do their best to put the fire out.
The companies were quite unpopular because of another business approach of theirs: If a property caught fire that *wasn't* owned by a customer, they'd still drive the engine up. And then sit around idley, while the boss negotiated payment. As they had the upper hand in those negotiations, they could usually get a massive fee to put the fire out.
I really doubt anyone from UK law enforcement reading this is going to consider me worth the effort of tracing down. Plus it'd be a media fiasco as soon as the papers or bloggers got wind of it. I'm not worth someone risking their career over.
I'm committing a crime next Saturday. I'm going to fit a new light in the garden. As this is external wiring, it's considered a notifiable change: I am legally required to inform the local building control authority of the modification before starting. I'm not going to because no-one ever does - it's just your basic motion-sensing security light, available in every DIY store, and even in Argos. There must be hundreds of thousands of them installed by householders around the country without sending a formal notification of commencement.
You missed out '- gets to defend you for free in the ten minutes before his next case.' Public defense attorneys are mostly there to urge you to either plead guilty or accept any deal the police offer, and are usually kept deliberately over-worked and under-funded. If they were allowed to actually be good at their jobs, they would make their bosses look bad.
You assume sex is fungible. Women may be 52% of the population, but only a small proportion of those are sexually available, and of those many would not be considered attractive. So competition for mates does exist.
It is an American tradition to attribute any and all actions of government to the President personally. He is the symbol of the country, and thus takes all of the credit and all of the blame - even in situations like this, where there is no evidence he was even aware of Silk Road or has ever shown any knowledge of bitcoin.
Removal of coins from circulation would act to cause potentially extreme deflation. Investing in bitcoins is a high-risk move, but the win if it pays off could be a gain of a thousand percent a year - providing the government doesn't actually try a major clampdown.
I don't think the government would want to recover them - if they were to sieze them, what would they do then? They can't spend or sell the coins, because doing so would be giving an implicit endorsement to bitcoin as a valid currency.
One solution would be to give courts the option of striking down a provision of a law if they find it has no relation to the subject of the bulk of the law. But that would need a constitutional amendment.
Or if the law is stuck as an amendment to a must-pass bill like an appropriations bill, or to something overwhelmingly popular, or something the presidents party has already committed to passing. The completly unrelated rider is a long-established tradition in American politics.
Because of a quirk of how the government operates in the US. The federal government cannot spent money without congressional authorisation, even if it has the money to spend. Authorisation has now run out - which means no paying the employees. Nor can they be asked to work for free, as there is no way to promise they will be paid in future - it's almost certain that congress is going to authorise back-pay, but 'almost' isn't good enough.
I wouldn't consider drivers a serious issue. If Valve goes to AMD/ATI and says 'We'll buy a hundred thousand chips for the first production run, with potential sales of fifteen million to follow' I'm sure improved driver support would quickly follow.
Intel graphics are pathetic by gaming standards - they are more for office work. Being on the same package as the CPU puts serious constraints on heat dissipation, they they can't come close to the performance of a discrete GPU. The choice is between nvidia and ATI/AMD.
I ran into this myself. Tried to put up a video I'd restored on youtube, a short by Windsor McKay, 'Bug Vaudeville.' I checked and made absolutely sure it was public domain. Animator was also the writer, long-deceased more than seventy years. Audio was the original composition. Couldn't find out who actually played it, but it was certainly old.
Put it up - and it was flagged as infringing by youtube's enforcer bot, with the claimed copyright holder a 'collection society.' How? No idea. I think it was a false claim they put in, but youtube has no real appeals process for that situation. I tried to contact them, but never got a response.
More than that. A lot of Very Important Things are still culturally inspired by short, very obscure works.
Half the science fiction films of the last few decades are based upon pulp stories that would have been entirely forgotten had some screenwriter not come across them and realised those ideas could be huge if just fleshed out a little and given a movie and promotion.
It's actually in there, OT stuff: Rapists were directed to marry their victims and pay a hefty bride price. It was the ancient version of 'you break it, you bought it.'
Yes, but it's generally expected that once congress gets back in order they'll authorised back-pay, as has happened in previous shutdowns. Some of the employees may need to borrow money to get them through the crisis, but they'll get paid. Eventually. Probably.
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Fire fighting actually had a less social origin. The first formal fire-fighting organisations were in London, and private businesses. They ran on the insurance model: Property owners paid a fixed due on intervals for protection, and if their property caught fire then the fire engine would be dispatched (Along with men to pump it - this was pre-engine, all hand driven) and the firemen would do their best to put the fire out.
The companies were quite unpopular because of another business approach of theirs: If a property caught fire that *wasn't* owned by a customer, they'd still drive the engine up. And then sit around idley, while the boss negotiated payment. As they had the upper hand in those negotiations, they could usually get a massive fee to put the fire out.
Traffic violations and drugs. Drugs are great, because they lead to asset seizures.
I really doubt anyone from UK law enforcement reading this is going to consider me worth the effort of tracing down. Plus it'd be a media fiasco as soon as the papers or bloggers got wind of it. I'm not worth someone risking their career over.
I'm committing a crime next Saturday. I'm going to fit a new light in the garden. As this is external wiring, it's considered a notifiable change: I am legally required to inform the local building control authority of the modification before starting. I'm not going to because no-one ever does - it's just your basic motion-sensing security light, available in every DIY store, and even in Argos. There must be hundreds of thousands of them installed by householders around the country without sending a formal notification of commencement.
You missed out '- gets to defend you for free in the ten minutes before his next case.' Public defense attorneys are mostly there to urge you to either plead guilty or accept any deal the police offer, and are usually kept deliberately over-worked and under-funded. If they were allowed to actually be good at their jobs, they would make their bosses look bad.
You assume sex is fungible. Women may be 52% of the population, but only a small proportion of those are sexually available, and of those many would not be considered attractive. So competition for mates does exist.
Physical objects have an inherent value. Completly different.
It is an American tradition to attribute any and all actions of government to the President personally. He is the symbol of the country, and thus takes all of the credit and all of the blame - even in situations like this, where there is no evidence he was even aware of Silk Road or has ever shown any knowledge of bitcoin.
Removal of coins from circulation would act to cause potentially extreme deflation. Investing in bitcoins is a high-risk move, but the win if it pays off could be a gain of a thousand percent a year - providing the government doesn't actually try a major clampdown.
I don't think the government would want to recover them - if they were to sieze them, what would they do then? They can't spend or sell the coins, because doing so would be giving an implicit endorsement to bitcoin as a valid currency.
One solution would be to give courts the option of striking down a provision of a law if they find it has no relation to the subject of the bulk of the law. But that would need a constitutional amendment.
Or if the law is stuck as an amendment to a must-pass bill like an appropriations bill, or to something overwhelmingly popular, or something the presidents party has already committed to passing. The completly unrelated rider is a long-established tradition in American politics.
Because of a quirk of how the government operates in the US. The federal government cannot spent money without congressional authorisation, even if it has the money to spend. Authorisation has now run out - which means no paying the employees. Nor can they be asked to work for free, as there is no way to promise they will be paid in future - it's almost certain that congress is going to authorise back-pay, but 'almost' isn't good enough.
I wouldn't consider drivers a serious issue. If Valve goes to AMD/ATI and says 'We'll buy a hundred thousand chips for the first production run, with potential sales of fifteen million to follow' I'm sure improved driver support would quickly follow.
Intel graphics are pathetic by gaming standards - they are more for office work. Being on the same package as the CPU puts serious constraints on heat dissipation, they they can't come close to the performance of a discrete GPU. The choice is between nvidia and ATI/AMD.
That means they are aware that wholesale hacking of TOR nodes would be noticed and invite countermeasures.
I should probably say 'pinkish-brown goo,' in the spirit of political correctness.
Does that make humans 'pink goo?' They reproduce, spread rapidly and consume all available resources destroying everything in their path.
The points are yours.
Trillions.
(Obscure geek points to anyone who gets the reference)
We already have a grey goo.
Life.
I ran into this myself. Tried to put up a video I'd restored on youtube, a short by Windsor McKay, 'Bug Vaudeville.' I checked and made absolutely sure it was public domain. Animator was also the writer, long-deceased more than seventy years. Audio was the original composition. Couldn't find out who actually played it, but it was certainly old.
Put it up - and it was flagged as infringing by youtube's enforcer bot, with the claimed copyright holder a 'collection society.' How? No idea. I think it was a false claim they put in, but youtube has no real appeals process for that situation. I tried to contact them, but never got a response.
More than that. A lot of Very Important Things are still culturally inspired by short, very obscure works.
Half the science fiction films of the last few decades are based upon pulp stories that would have been entirely forgotten had some screenwriter not come across them and realised those ideas could be huge if just fleshed out a little and given a movie and promotion.
Only the ones who've read the bible.
It's actually in there, OT stuff: Rapists were directed to marry their victims and pay a hefty bride price. It was the ancient version of 'you break it, you bought it.'
Yes, but it's generally expected that once congress gets back in order they'll authorised back-pay, as has happened in previous shutdowns. Some of the employees may need to borrow money to get them through the crisis, but they'll get paid. Eventually. Probably.