A lot of the demographic problem those policies created still exist though.
Verses what our baby boom generation?
You do realize that our demographics are more screwed up then theirs already right? Under 9% of China's population is over 65, but in the US, the figure is already at 13%, and in Canada 16%. Or look at their close neighbour the Japanese, with a whopping 23% over the age of 65!
And even if the child restriction only really applies to the least-fortunate 1/2 or 1/4 of the population that's still an ongoing contributor to demographic imbalance.
It is not the "least fortunate" who are still blocked from having more then one child, seeing as China's least fortunate populations are rural and they have had easy exemptions and tiny fines for years. Its the upper-middle and upper class who face drastic fines that tend to be unable to have more then one child due to their unwillingness to spend the money. Which is why just about every news article talking about the One Chile Policy in China today always ends up referring to people with "successful businesses" as they take the blunt of the fines.
I'm very confused, a simple look up of population statistics would have shown your argument to be invalid, but it is like I said in my previous post, people have a strange fascination with old Cold War propaganda about China, and its hard for them to change their minds. While we in the west treat our actions as perfect and yet we face the larger demographic problems with out baby boom generation, and our inaction to protect and expand our own industries and resources so that we may continue the life we once had in the 1950's and 1960's.
BSD is software freedom, as in acknowledge your use of my code, and that I'm not liable for anything you do with it, and do what ever you want.
GPL is the polar opposite of copyright. It's "free software" in a money sense, but its not actually actually a copyright that allows the freedom of the software's use.
BSD license makes others admit that they used your work, be it for commercial or non-commercial purposes. But yes its basically public domain for anything you make immediately.
China has a one child policy? What are you stuck in the 1970s when it was implemented?
There are so many loop holes in that policy one can drive a truck through it.
There are exemptions if your first child was a girl, many regions of China now have locally implemented a two child policy across the board, Ethnic minorities (there are 55 in China) are allowed 2 Children in urban areas, or 4 in rural areas, with Tibet's Autonomous region declaring there is no limitations to the number of kids one has. These exceptions mean that as long as you follow a birth spacing of 3-4 years depending on the area, nearly 65% of all China are allowed more then one child.
Plus there are exemptions if you want to pay a fine (equal to the average disposable income in the area your living in the year the child was born, and doesn't need to be paid till the child is 5 years old and starts school, WITHOUT penalty/interest for being late), or if your a business owner the fine is larger and much stiffer, and you need to do math based on your income.
20,000×6+(INCOME-20,000)×2 = Fine in Chinese yuan.
I know we bai gui's in the west still act like China is still in the 1970's but Mao has been dead for 34 years, and most of his policies are either totally gone or have been swiss cheesed since then.
Problem is, GPL is "free" software, for the end user, and the source code sure, but its model is anything but "freedom" for the people using it. To get that you need to look at the BSD and other similar licenses.
1984 - mouse based OS (yes they copied it from Xerox, but they were first to put it in a home desktop)
While Apple copied it from Xerox first, many companies were working on mice as inputting methods for nearly 2 decades before Apple released it. And they were first by a hair, many companies that didn't take such a direct route at copying Xerox's product had a mouse to market within a year, including Microsoft, who's method of tracking movement of mice on a computer is the standard to which all, including modern Apple mice are made to today.
1988(?) - FireWire. A damn fast serial bus. Was used in HD VCRs and camcorders in addition to Macs. Sadly Apple failed to let anyone else use it (so the PC world developed USB instead).
USB was designed in 1994, Firewire was not designed till the following year in 1995.
1991 - PowerPC... though I'm not really sure how much Apple really "contributed" to the design beyond the operating system. PPC is the heart of all modern settop game consoles (and also Amiga computers).
Linux and BSD have been on PPC for ages, and PPC is still being used for many other UNIX operating systems on IBM equipment.
What is next Fanboy going to claim Apple invented the Internet?
Monthly minimum wages in the two provinces where Lenovo has factories are $127.11 USD and $135.05 for factory workers living in one of the provinces cities (where the factories are located).
Also note, the minimum amount the Chinese Central government is allowing all regions to increase their minimum wage is 13% per year, up to 2015. However the average minimum wage increases the last few years between the provinces is about 20%.
When was the last time Western Minimum wages went up by that amount for one year, let alone repeating it each and every year?
But you are taking about workstation class machines, back when they were a few times the price of a regular desktop PC. Consumer desktop PC's as late as 1995 were still being sold with 4MB as standard.
Even today, a workstation class machine, such as my desktop costs quite a bit more then even your normal gaming desktop.
Maybe not having WYSIWYG isn't such a bad thing. Limits the number of people who do not wish to put in any effort from actually doing editing. Allowing people who are actually interested in adding and sharing information to get the job done, while limiting the number of people who'd end up just wanting to use Wikipedia as another web forum.
Normally OEM's use LIN Bus for stuff connected to your doors. Much cheaper then CAN, and CAN in cars is typically drive train and safety related only, as its a relatively slow communication method that is designed to make sure critical messages go out, and that means dropping non-critical ones (as a inherent design that is actually wanted and needed).
I am aware of that history, and I understand why they did what they did. The thing is codified law overrides precedent and common law.
I think you have it backwards, Common Law IS the law of the land, based on "practical" applications of what was written into law both past and present, aka the application of "codified law" which includes all laws passed by a government with respect to the needs and requirements of the people in the society.
This is why the Supreme Court in Common law countries can strike down, parts or all of a "codified law" that was passed by the government which does not pass their approval with regards to how society and how law has been applied previously. Supreme Courts in Common Law countries act both as a means of appeal of convictions, and as a means of testing law, and whether or not previous legal history, and previous codified laws conflict with the new law, and therefore allowing the Court to strike down the portions (or the entire law) and demand the government change it to better reflect the nature of Common Law.
A Civil Law system, however, uses codified law as the law of the land, and unless the codified law is changed by government, then its not up for interpretation by the courts. In these governmental legal systems, the Supreme Court effectively only functions as a means of a appeals process, but does not have the same rights that the Supreme Court in the US, or Canada, or England has to strike down codified laws.
While in today's world, there is a lot of intermixing between both legal systems today, generally countries tend to favour one or the other, or sometimes have two separate Supreme Courts to appeal too, depending on whether or not you want to be found innocent, or want to prove that the law is unjust.
Either way, Common Law systems, such as the US, mean that previous laws of the land, even if they were not part of the current government (such as Laws the British had before the American Revolution) still take precedence and can be used as a means to invalidate the new government's laws. Keeping the Common law system in the US, and allowing this to happen, was done for many reasons, least of which is future governments attempting to take control through the use of unjust laws. As a safe guard of American democracy.
The First Amendment does not say anything about disorderly conduct. The whole "fire in a crowded theater" argument is entirely the invention of the Supreme Court, as its its own power to decide Constitutional questions at all for that matter.
And this is the problem the Freedom of Speech is not about you being able to say anything you want, its about you being able to voice your opinions and beliefs freely without government interference.
In addition to this, such things as incitement of illegal actions, libel, slander and obscenity has never been protected by the right of freedom of speech in any country. Long before the first amendment was written, in English Common law, there were limitations, and these limitations were kept in the American legal system after the Revolution. Hence why the Supreme Court has upheld these views.
What you advocate here is free speech Soviet Russia style! The speech is free, but then you get sent to Siberia labor camp or executed by a firing squad. No, I am not exaggerating, this is how it actually worked during Stalin times, and is happening in Russia today, in a different form. Today Russian journalists are being assassinated for free speech, because the government does not want to be involved directly.
And yet the people in Russia, both past and present are willing to take that risk to spread their words and their beliefs, knowing full well they face consequences, because they know their beliefs are important to them.
Verses the Occupy movement, and their supporters who use anonymity over the internet to open their yap without thought, without consequences, because they are spoiled kids who grew up and realized the world won't hand them honey and nuts every time they stub their toe on something.
Why not? So if I want to speak out against a government policy, and the outcome of that speech is being put on a watch list, having my house searched and my taxes audited, I should just shut up?
No one said you had to shut up, but you have to accept the consequences. If your words mean that you must use the anonymity that the internet provides, then perhaps your words mean nothing to you and they are best not said.
You'd have a argument, except the fact that ABS systems were installed onto planes since the 1930's, motorcycles and cars since the 1960's. They became commercial products under various names (Sure Brake, Sure Track, Trackmaster, EAL etc), in the early 1970s.
Porsche was not the inventor of the ABS, nor was it the first to adopt it. So its unlikely they'd be able to sue anyone for it.
Freedom of speech is not Freedom to be a idiot. When you make your bed, you must lie in it. If you cannot handle the outcome of your own words perhaps it would be best to shut your mouth and forget about saying it (or in this case typing it).
It falls under the whole idea of personal responsibility, which I know is hard for people to accept today, its all about "me, me, me" and no thought process involved when it comes to thinking ahead of what your getting yourself into.
[P]rostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia... should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness.
And
I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children.
Actually, instead, especially in the tablet and netbook market, really not much changes, to be granted the OEM licenses for Windows 7 Starter you already have to build your products within a specific specification range allowed by MS. Giving MS control of both the hardware and software, more or less.
This just sounds to me that its more of the same, with possibly Microsoft branded tablets floating about as well as the rest of the OEM makers.
For example, in 1997 the family of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. filed a lawsuit over what it believed to be a cover-up of the circumstances of the 1968 assassination. At the direction of a court, a select group of forensics experts fired 18 rounds through the almost-unused Remington rifle the FBI said was the murder weapon. Not only did none of the 18 bullets from the rifle match the bullet that killed Dr. King, none of the bullets matched each other.
Or the The California Department of Forensic Services Study, which in only 62% of cases could with a batch of 742 guns of the same make and model (California's Highway Patrol's S&W 4006's), put the real match in the top 15 of probable, and in 38% of cases, couldn't actually preform a match to within the top 15 choices?
A second test by them using only 22 guns this time, but various different ammunition manufacturers through each gun, only 11% actually managed to get a match within the top 15 choices, now remember, this time we are talking about only 22 guns, so 89% of the time, it couldn't place the right bullet to the right gun within the larger majority of choices.
Now consider this, LEO forensic teams only search for the top 10 matches. So the failure rate would have been higher. Even the NIBIN which only catalogs guns used in crimes, has a success rate of 1.25%.
Microstamping wont fix anything, its own problems will crop up, the moment a criminal gets his hand on a gun with it, it will become worthless.
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A lot of the demographic problem those policies created still exist though.
Verses what our baby boom generation?
You do realize that our demographics are more screwed up then theirs already right? Under 9% of China's population is over 65, but in the US, the figure is already at 13%, and in Canada 16%. Or look at their close neighbour the Japanese, with a whopping 23% over the age of 65!
And even if the child restriction only really applies to the least-fortunate 1/2 or 1/4 of the population that's still an ongoing contributor to demographic imbalance.
It is not the "least fortunate" who are still blocked from having more then one child, seeing as China's least fortunate populations are rural and they have had easy exemptions and tiny fines for years. Its the upper-middle and upper class who face drastic fines that tend to be unable to have more then one child due to their unwillingness to spend the money. Which is why just about every news article talking about the One Chile Policy in China today always ends up referring to people with "successful businesses" as they take the blunt of the fines.
I'm very confused, a simple look up of population statistics would have shown your argument to be invalid, but it is like I said in my previous post, people have a strange fascination with old Cold War propaganda about China, and its hard for them to change their minds. While we in the west treat our actions as perfect and yet we face the larger demographic problems with out baby boom generation, and our inaction to protect and expand our own industries and resources so that we may continue the life we once had in the 1950's and 1960's.
BSD is software freedom, as in acknowledge your use of my code, and that I'm not liable for anything you do with it, and do what ever you want.
GPL is the polar opposite of copyright. It's "free software" in a money sense, but its not actually actually a copyright that allows the freedom of the software's use.
BSD license makes others admit that they used your work, be it for commercial or non-commercial purposes. But yes its basically public domain for anything you make immediately.
China has a one child policy? What are you stuck in the 1970s when it was implemented?
There are so many loop holes in that policy one can drive a truck through it.
There are exemptions if your first child was a girl, many regions of China now have locally implemented a two child policy across the board, Ethnic minorities (there are 55 in China) are allowed 2 Children in urban areas, or 4 in rural areas, with Tibet's Autonomous region declaring there is no limitations to the number of kids one has. These exceptions mean that as long as you follow a birth spacing of 3-4 years depending on the area, nearly 65% of all China are allowed more then one child.
Plus there are exemptions if you want to pay a fine (equal to the average disposable income in the area your living in the year the child was born, and doesn't need to be paid till the child is 5 years old and starts school, WITHOUT penalty/interest for being late), or if your a business owner the fine is larger and much stiffer, and you need to do math based on your income.
20,000×6+(INCOME-20,000)×2 = Fine in Chinese yuan.
I know we bai gui's in the west still act like China is still in the 1970's but Mao has been dead for 34 years, and most of his policies are either totally gone or have been swiss cheesed since then.
Problem is, GPL is "free" software, for the end user, and the source code sure, but its model is anything but "freedom" for the people using it. To get that you need to look at the BSD and other similar licenses.
1984 - mouse based OS (yes they copied it from Xerox, but they were first to put it in a home desktop)
While Apple copied it from Xerox first, many companies were working on mice as inputting methods for nearly 2 decades before Apple released it. And they were first by a hair, many companies that didn't take such a direct route at copying Xerox's product had a mouse to market within a year, including Microsoft, who's method of tracking movement of mice on a computer is the standard to which all, including modern Apple mice are made to today.
1988(?) - FireWire. A damn fast serial bus. Was used in HD VCRs and camcorders in addition to Macs. Sadly Apple failed to let anyone else use it (so the PC world developed USB instead).
USB was designed in 1994, Firewire was not designed till the following year in 1995.
1991 - PowerPC... though I'm not really sure how much Apple really "contributed" to the design beyond the operating system. PPC is the heart of all modern settop game consoles (and also Amiga computers).
Linux and BSD have been on PPC for ages, and PPC is still being used for many other UNIX operating systems on IBM equipment.
What is next Fanboy going to claim Apple invented the Internet?
And Greece still exiled the King multiple times, because most of the population was not stupid enough to believe in that.
We even had a little Civil War to keep the King out that the British were so very desperate to put back into power.
Monthly minimum wages in the two provinces where Lenovo has factories are $127.11 USD and $135.05 for factory workers living in one of the provinces cities (where the factories are located).
Also note, the minimum amount the Chinese Central government is allowing all regions to increase their minimum wage is 13% per year, up to 2015. However the average minimum wage increases the last few years between the provinces is about 20%.
When was the last time Western Minimum wages went up by that amount for one year, let alone repeating it each and every year?
But you are taking about workstation class machines, back when they were a few times the price of a regular desktop PC. Consumer desktop PC's as late as 1995 were still being sold with 4MB as standard.
Even today, a workstation class machine, such as my desktop costs quite a bit more then even your normal gaming desktop.
Are you sure you belong on
There are floppy disk Linux distributions. There has been for quite some time. Last I checked a floppy disk is only 1.44MB.
Let alone in 1992, a 8MB RAM system was on the higher end of a typical desktop.
Maybe not having WYSIWYG isn't such a bad thing. Limits the number of people who do not wish to put in any effort from actually doing editing. Allowing people who are actually interested in adding and sharing information to get the job done, while limiting the number of people who'd end up just wanting to use Wikipedia as another web forum.
Which is a drop in the bucket compared to the $248 Billion in sales last year. A mere 3% of their revenue.
Normally OEM's use LIN Bus for stuff connected to your doors. Much cheaper then CAN, and CAN in cars is typically drive train and safety related only, as its a relatively slow communication method that is designed to make sure critical messages go out, and that means dropping non-critical ones (as a inherent design that is actually wanted and needed).
None, because Geek Squad has nobody worth calling a technician.
I am aware of that history, and I understand why they did what they did. The thing is codified law overrides precedent and common law.
I think you have it backwards, Common Law IS the law of the land, based on "practical" applications of what was written into law both past and present, aka the application of "codified law" which includes all laws passed by a government with respect to the needs and requirements of the people in the society.
This is why the Supreme Court in Common law countries can strike down, parts or all of a "codified law" that was passed by the government which does not pass their approval with regards to how society and how law has been applied previously. Supreme Courts in Common Law countries act both as a means of appeal of convictions, and as a means of testing law, and whether or not previous legal history, and previous codified laws conflict with the new law, and therefore allowing the Court to strike down the portions (or the entire law) and demand the government change it to better reflect the nature of Common Law.
A Civil Law system, however, uses codified law as the law of the land, and unless the codified law is changed by government, then its not up for interpretation by the courts. In these governmental legal systems, the Supreme Court effectively only functions as a means of a appeals process, but does not have the same rights that the Supreme Court in the US, or Canada, or England has to strike down codified laws.
While in today's world, there is a lot of intermixing between both legal systems today, generally countries tend to favour one or the other, or sometimes have two separate Supreme Courts to appeal too, depending on whether or not you want to be found innocent, or want to prove that the law is unjust.
Either way, Common Law systems, such as the US, mean that previous laws of the land, even if they were not part of the current government (such as Laws the British had before the American Revolution) still take precedence and can be used as a means to invalidate the new government's laws. Keeping the Common law system in the US, and allowing this to happen, was done for many reasons, least of which is future governments attempting to take control through the use of unjust laws. As a safe guard of American democracy.
The First Amendment does not say anything about disorderly conduct. The whole "fire in a crowded theater" argument is entirely the invention of the Supreme Court, as its its own power to decide Constitutional questions at all for that matter.
And this is the problem the Freedom of Speech is not about you being able to say anything you want, its about you being able to voice your opinions and beliefs freely without government interference.
In addition to this, such things as incitement of illegal actions, libel, slander and obscenity has never been protected by the right of freedom of speech in any country. Long before the first amendment was written, in English Common law, there were limitations, and these limitations were kept in the American legal system after the Revolution. Hence why the Supreme Court has upheld these views.
What you advocate here is free speech Soviet Russia style! The speech is free, but then you get sent to Siberia labor camp or executed by a firing squad. No, I am not exaggerating, this is how it actually worked during Stalin times, and is happening in Russia today, in a different form. Today Russian journalists are being assassinated for free speech, because the government does not want to be involved directly.
And yet the people in Russia, both past and present are willing to take that risk to spread their words and their beliefs, knowing full well they face consequences, because they know their beliefs are important to them.
Verses the Occupy movement, and their supporters who use anonymity over the internet to open their yap without thought, without consequences, because they are spoiled kids who grew up and realized the world won't hand them honey and nuts every time they stub their toe on something.
Why not? So if I want to speak out against a government policy, and the outcome of that speech is being put on a watch list, having my house searched and my taxes audited, I should just shut up?
No one said you had to shut up, but you have to accept the consequences. If your words mean that you must use the anonymity that the internet provides, then perhaps your words mean nothing to you and they are best not said.
You'd have a argument, except the fact that ABS systems were installed onto planes since the 1930's, motorcycles and cars since the 1960's. They became commercial products under various names (Sure Brake, Sure Track, Trackmaster, EAL etc), in the early 1970s.
Porsche was not the inventor of the ABS, nor was it the first to adopt it. So its unlikely they'd be able to sue anyone for it.
Freedom of speech is not Freedom to be a idiot. When you make your bed, you must lie in it. If you cannot handle the outcome of your own words perhaps it would be best to shut your mouth and forget about saying it (or in this case typing it).
It falls under the whole idea of personal responsibility, which I know is hard for people to accept today, its all about "me, me, me" and no thought process involved when it comes to thinking ahead of what your getting yourself into.
[P]rostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia ... should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness.
And
I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children.
Right off his own Archives
He also supports paedophilia. So it explains much with him liking a anonymous payment method, perhaps for under-age prostitution?
Individual interests *must* take a back seat to the good of society. Period.
God damn communist.
Actually, instead, especially in the tablet and netbook market, really not much changes, to be granted the OEM licenses for Windows 7 Starter you already have to build your products within a specific specification range allowed by MS. Giving MS control of both the hardware and software, more or less.
This just sounds to me that its more of the same, with possibly Microsoft branded tablets floating about as well as the rest of the OEM makers.
Not sure that I agree.
How about this then?
For example, in 1997 the family of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. filed a lawsuit over what it believed to be a cover-up of the circumstances of the 1968 assassination. At the direction of a court, a select group of forensics experts fired 18 rounds through the almost-unused Remington rifle the FBI said was the murder weapon. Not only did none of the 18 bullets from the rifle match the bullet that killed Dr. King, none of the bullets matched each other.
Or the The California Department of Forensic Services Study, which in only 62% of cases could with a batch of 742 guns of the same make and model (California's Highway Patrol's S&W 4006's), put the real match in the top 15 of probable, and in 38% of cases, couldn't actually preform a match to within the top 15 choices?
A second test by them using only 22 guns this time, but various different ammunition manufacturers through each gun, only 11% actually managed to get a match within the top 15 choices, now remember, this time we are talking about only 22 guns, so 89% of the time, it couldn't place the right bullet to the right gun within the larger majority of choices.
Now consider this, LEO forensic teams only search for the top 10 matches. So the failure rate would have been higher. Even the NIBIN which only catalogs guns used in crimes, has a success rate of 1.25%.
Microstamping wont fix anything, its own problems will crop up, the moment a criminal gets his hand on a gun with it, it will become worthless.