I'm pretty sure this style is so popular is because everyone running these types of sites bought the same get-rich-quick e-book from a website that looks exactly like the one linked in this story.
Part of the package they bought was "proven website designs optimized for maximal conversion".
That's also why I *do* look down on people who claim they don't have time and/or desire to learn the details of their electronic devices yet deliberately spend above the range aimed at them for its 'coolness' factor.
Owing to the fact that I work all day, I tend to have more spare money than spare time. Thus it makes perfect economic sense for me to spend a little more money on something that I can start using right away without investing time in.
NoSQL doesn't mean unreliable, and SQL doesn't mean ACID-compliant.
CouchDB (one of the products mentioned in this article) goes to some lengths to preserve data integrity. It doesn't do delayed commits the way, say, MongoDB does, and it uses an append-only file format that means each document is written to disk in a completely ACID-compliant way.
MySQL didn't have any transactional capability in early versions, and even today is quite happy to corrupt tables beyond repair if the power goes out during a write operation.
A peer-based root system seems like a very good idea. I'd couple it with another idea that I read about years ago:
Allow anyone to register and create any TLD they like, but don't give them exclusive ownership.
This eliminates land grabs on new TLDs completely. You can't possibly register your desired name in every TLD because there are an unlimited number of them. For decent performance, spreading these unlimited TLDs over a network of root-level peers would be desirable.
This scheme is also not particularly prone to a TLD land grab because of the non-exclusivity. If, say, Microsoft set up.microsoft they would be unable to prevent registration of down.with.microsoft, and thus would never create that TLD because they would lose control of their trademark through voluntary dilution (the terms of the TLD registration would cede any rights to the trademark for TLD purposes to the registrar and their customers). However, if anyone but Microsoft tried to register.microsoft then they would be breaching trademark protections, so we would not have a root space cluttered with trademarked business names.
"The ubiquitous distribution of free adult videos through redtube.com has had a massive negative impact on the business model of adult website proprietors,. Now that consumers have the ability to watch high quality adult videos for free on redtube.com, fewer are making the choice to pay other adult website proprietors for the same content."
Was the plaintiff a stooge? The "complaint" sounds like a press release from redtube.
This is just too close to the TV advertising trope of "Mock news story on aggrieved producers of X suing/vandalizing/attacking producers of new, superior product Y".
...a wifi-only model that doesn't even have a GPS chip in it
This is a serious limitation of the non-3G iPad. The iPhone can do GPS navigation quite happily without a 3G signal if you have an offline mapping application installed. With the hotspot functionality added to the Verizon iPhone (or a MiFi or an Android phone), using a WiFi-only iPad as a truly mobile device, rather than a coffee-table computer, becomes a possibility, but lack of GPS really limits its utility.
It's a problem with bandwidth, not a problem with transfer. Don't ever believe the utter lie that these two concepts are inherently and directly correlated.
How can they possibly not be correlated?
Transfer = Bandwidth x Time
In the case of a monthly billing cycle, Time is a constant (~2.6 Ms), so Transfer is directly proportional to bandwidth.
Lastly, if you don't understand WHY what I say is true, think of it this way:
Take a look at the gigabit switch sitting on your desk (or pretend you have one). You've used it very lightly. You just browse the web through it. Maybe some games. No youtube, no torrents, no downloading. You've owned it for a while now, and you've transferred about 10 gigabytes of data through it in that whole time.
I own the exact same model, and I'm coming over your house later and swapping out switches with you, but the difference between your switch and mine is that I pushed 5 terabyes of data through mine every single day I've owned it.
Given that neither switch is defective, when I switch hardware with you, will you notice the difference?
This is a complete straw man. The reason why transfer caps are in place is not because the equipment is wearing out. My transfers this month don't affect anything next month. The analogy that you want is that you're coming over to my house and you're going to download your 5 TB through my switch. This is the reality of ISP networks -- shared infrastructure. Will that affect my experience? Quite possibly, because at times of heavy burst we'll be contending for the resources. If, on the other hand, I say "sure, come to my house but you can only have 500 GB" then you will, almost by definition, be contending for bandwidth less often than if I let you download 5 TB through my switch.
ISPs pay specifically for bandwidth usage based on a well accepted model commonly called 95th percentile billing because of how fairly and accurately it reflects a given link's impact on the network. Overall transfer over a given period, while it may be calculated, is irrelevant because the amount of data pushed through a link simply doesn't fucking matter.
How do you expect a consumer, who knows nothing about computer networks and just wants a fixed bill each month, to handle 95th percentile billing? It's completely unfeasible. It's very easy to say "Joe, you buy this plan and you can watch about 300 hrs of the youseTubes every month". Transfer is also very easy to track, and provides a nice "cut off" point, where the speed can be throttled by the ISP, or whatever they do to you over the cap.
I know some ISPs, who normally run with monthly transfer caps, that have plans based on a rolling usage vs priority system. As you transfer more they lower the QoS on your packets. This means that if the network isn't congested you can use as much as you like. This is a pretty fair system, but it's very difficult to explain and advertise to most end users.
If I literally possessed a LIMITLESS source of product (data transfer) and, irrespective of size, somehow managed to convince you that it was reasonable for me to charge you for a finite, expiring quantity of it, I'd laugh all the way to the fucking bank every time you came back for more.
Now it's your turn with the bull shit. The ISP in no way has a limitless amount if data transfer. Each month they have exactly their total bandwidth x (number of seconds in the month) to sell, use it or lose it. So, they portion it up sell it to you on the exact same basis -- some GB per month, use it or lose it. Now, they do oversell, and they do tend to sell you more than you'll use - relying on the light email user not to use the full 50 GB that he's paid for. However, they really have to
Three backlinks to your domain from a PR 8 site. Nice going.
That said, your site seems to work as promised. Getting any kind of decent product reviews out of Google is next to impossible these days, and sitetruth actually found some for me.
If you or your agent or exclusive licensee institute or order or agree to the institution of patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that this implementation of VP8 or any code incorporated within this implementation of VP8 constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, or inducement of patent infringement, then any patent rights granted to you under this License for this implementation of VP8 shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed. http://www.webmproject.org/license/additional/
So the day that somebody has a valid patent claim - which isn't that unlikely if you are honest - on any of the techniques used, you are in the possible same situation as with h.264 and VC-1
The way I read it this clause is, in effect, saying "If you accept this license, and then proceed to sue us for patent infringement, your rights to any of our patents are immediately void and thus we can counter-sue".
Note the use of "if you" and "rights granted to you". There is no indication here that any rights are revoked from other licensees if one licensee starts a patent infringement suit.
Well sapphire (corundum) is a form of alumina. Perhaps the GP was making a kind of pun on the Latin declensions -um and -a, representing the singular and the plural, playing on the American spelling "aluminum" (which sounds like the singular form of alumina) as opposed to the Commonwealth "aluminium".
Not that I disagree with your point (that they'd still be completely humans, with minor adaptations during growth comparable to i.e. Sherpas vs. the rest of us), but the atmosphere is no way going to be the same as Earth's; why in hell would you load up your dome (or other structure) with 2-3x the pressure stresses needed, and cost yourself more energy pumping airlocks, etc.?!
I recall reading of a study that indicates Sherpas are genetically different from the rest of us, and not simply adapted to high altitudes by virtue of having grown up there. I believe they found some grown-up, American-born children of Nepalese parents who had emigrated, and took them back to Nepal and none of them suffered from altitude sickness at all.
I think there would be a slight natural selection pressure - with those better able to tolerate martian conditions being healthier, and therefore more attractive to the opposite sex (supposing that the colonists were not sent as pre-selected breeding pairs). There's also a possibility that some women would have difficulty conceiving or carrying a child to term on Mars. Those genes would obviously be selected against.
I think a stronger selection pressure would be against some more "mundane" diseases that we can treat easily on Earth but would be a death sentence in a minimally-equipped space colony. Any kind of renal failure and you're probably done for. Diabetes and haemophilia (not that the latter is particularly common) would probably be very troublesome too.
No, Congress doesn't make engineering decisions. They make budget decisions, i.e., they ensure money get spent in their district by defining what to buy. If Congress made engineering decisions and something went wrong, they might get blamed and that would not be a good thing.
I think you're being facetious, but just in case you're not... Telling people what to buy is not a budget decision. A budget decision is telling people how much they can spend. That budget decision can come with some friendly suggestions like "We'd be fine with you re-using some of that inventory of Shuttle parts you have, if it would make things cheaper."
If you tell someone what parts to use, that is most definitely and engineering decision.
The "right" regulation is to have the underlying infrastructure, most importantly the "last mile" distribution network, owned and maintained by the government -- just like the roads. Local, state, or federal government it really doesn't matter. I believe in the USA the regional governments are probably the more appropriate, although here in Australia we're planning on having the federal government* do it.
By selling access to the consumers on an equal basis to any ISP, the threat of monopoly is removed. This could open up real choice in the market. Only use the Internet for email? Buy a cheaper service that throttles video and bittorrent to a trickle, or has a monthly data cap. Want the lowest game ping? Choose the ISP with the best game servers, optimised routing to battle.net and Xbox Live, and QoS that pushes your game packets ahead of your torrents.
* This is actually a bit of a worry, because there's every possibility that they'll screw it up, and leave everyone with bad or expensive connections. With local governments in charge, you've always got the option of moving, or voting in some new administration. Internet access is rarely a nationally influential issue (as it was at the last federal election here). Unfortunately, Australia has too small of a population to support local government infrastructure like this, and we have the added issue of a lack of over-arching government for our major cities.
Sorry, the mnemonic works as you have it written. I had it the wrong way around.
At the cathode of a discharging battery cell, the chemical in the cell is being reduced and is thus gaining electrons. These electrons are, in a sense, taken from the electrode leaving it with a positive potential.
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Could not a packing scheme be devised where the more commonly pressed keys use less bits, and the less commonly pressed use more? Some kind of Huffman coding, or a scheme like UTF-8 where a high-order bit set means a double-length code.
The anode is where oxidation happens, the cathode where reduction happens.
Then recall the OILRIG. Reduction is loss (of electrons), oxidation is gain (of electrons).
In the normal operation (discharge) of a cell, reduction is going on at the cathode, "sucking out" electrons, if you will, leaving a positive electrical potential. Thus, in normal operation the cathode is the cell/battery terminal marked +. The reverse is happening at the anode, which thus is the terminal marked -.
During charging, you're pumping electrons back into the negative terminal "forcing" reduction to happen there, and thus the negative terminal becomes a cathode.
Confusion can easily arrise because the relationship of cathode and anode to + and - markings is reversed for power sources and power sinks. Say you want to connect and LED to a battery. You connect the "negative", cathode lead to the negative battery terminal, and the anode lead to the positive terminal, but you're not connecting anode to anode. Think about a chained circuit of several devices -- it goes anode-cathode-anode-cathode all the way around. The battery (or other power source) is no different. The anode of the battery connects to the cathode of the LED.
Regular non-alcholic beer is for humans with a mental disorder.
If you think that to be true a priori, then I suspect you are just somebody who doesn't like beer. It's actually the test I use. If someone made a non-alcoholic beer that tasted exactly the same as an alcoholic beer, would you drink it? If you say "no", then you don't like beer, you just like alcohol.
Personally, I'd drink non-alcoholic beer (and whiskey and gin) if it met this criteria. Sadly, most commercially-available non- and low-alcohol beers are less tasty than their full-strength counterparts. This is because they have been made with less malt and/or subjected to processes like heating which drive off flavour compounds with the alcohol. We lack the technology to make good non-alcoholic beer.
If our processes have become more efficient, the solution is that we should all work less. In the early days of the industrial revolution, people worked from dawn until dusk, or in shifts around the clock, and only got Sundays off to go to church if they were lucky. Children worked too, so the amount of available labour in the market was much larger, in real terms, than it is today.
Labour laws aren't just there to give socialists a warm fuzzy feeling. They also keep unemployment rates down.
If unemployment gets to a steady 30%, we can all start taking 3-day weekends and have that 30% pick up the slack. Fantastic! Technology has improved our standard of living and everyone is happier.
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Lame, not even a standard 16:9 aspect ratio.
Wide-screen computer displays are almost always 16:10, not 16:9.
I'm pretty sure this style is so popular is because everyone running these types of sites bought the same get-rich-quick e-book from a website that looks exactly like the one linked in this story.
Part of the package they bought was "proven website designs optimized for maximal conversion".
Owing to the fact that I work all day, I tend to have more spare money than spare time. Thus it makes perfect economic sense for me to spend a little more money on something that I can start using right away without investing time in.
11. In general, everyone felt a bit safer in every day life. Killings, roberies, etc...not nearly as prevalent.
I'm not sure exactly when or where you're referring to, but the rate of violent crime in the USA has not been lower since the early 70s.
Reminds me of an "educational" song I was exposed to when I was five or six:
The Sun is a mass,
of incandescent gas,
a gigantic nuclear furnace.
They Might Be Giants, ftw!
They Might Be Giants, for the cover-version of a track from the 1959 album Space Songs.
NoSQL doesn't mean unreliable, and SQL doesn't mean ACID-compliant.
CouchDB (one of the products mentioned in this article) goes to some lengths to preserve data integrity. It doesn't do delayed commits the way, say, MongoDB does, and it uses an append-only file format that means each document is written to disk in a completely ACID-compliant way.
MySQL didn't have any transactional capability in early versions, and even today is quite happy to corrupt tables beyond repair if the power goes out during a write operation.
A peer-based root system seems like a very good idea. I'd couple it with another idea that I read about years ago:
Allow anyone to register and create any TLD they like, but don't give them exclusive ownership.
This eliminates land grabs on new TLDs completely. You can't possibly register your desired name in every TLD because there are an unlimited number of them. For decent performance, spreading these unlimited TLDs over a network of root-level peers would be desirable.
This scheme is also not particularly prone to a TLD land grab because of the non-exclusivity. If, say, Microsoft set up .microsoft they would be unable to prevent registration of down.with.microsoft, and thus would never create that TLD because they would lose control of their trademark through voluntary dilution (the terms of the TLD registration would cede any rights to the trademark for TLD purposes to the registrar and their customers). However, if anyone but Microsoft tried to register .microsoft then they would be breaching trademark protections, so we would not have a root space cluttered with trademarked business names.
From the complaint:
"The ubiquitous distribution of free adult videos through redtube.com has had a massive negative impact on the business model of adult website proprietors,. Now that consumers have the ability to watch high quality adult videos for free on redtube.com, fewer are making the choice to pay other adult website proprietors for the same content."
Was the plaintiff a stooge? The "complaint" sounds like a press release from redtube.
This is just too close to the TV advertising trope of "Mock news story on aggrieved producers of X suing/vandalizing/attacking producers of new, superior product Y".
...a wifi-only model that doesn't even have a GPS chip in it
This is a serious limitation of the non-3G iPad. The iPhone can do GPS navigation quite happily without a 3G signal if you have an offline mapping application installed. With the hotspot functionality added to the Verizon iPhone (or a MiFi or an Android phone), using a WiFi-only iPad as a truly mobile device, rather than a coffee-table computer, becomes a possibility, but lack of GPS really limits its utility.
What do you mean "the most zeros"? Whatever mass they pick, it will be exactly 1 kg. What could be easier to work with than that?
It's a problem with bandwidth, not a problem with transfer. Don't ever believe the utter lie that these two concepts are inherently and directly correlated.
How can they possibly not be correlated?
Transfer = Bandwidth x Time
In the case of a monthly billing cycle, Time is a constant (~2.6 Ms), so Transfer is directly proportional to bandwidth.
Lastly, if you don't understand WHY what I say is true, think of it this way:
Take a look at the gigabit switch sitting on your desk (or pretend you have one). You've used it very lightly. You just browse the web through it. Maybe some games. No youtube, no torrents, no downloading. You've owned it for a while now, and you've transferred about 10 gigabytes of data through it in that whole time.
I own the exact same model, and I'm coming over your house later and swapping out switches with you, but the difference between your switch and mine is that I pushed 5 terabyes of data through mine every single day I've owned it.
Given that neither switch is defective, when I switch hardware with you, will you notice the difference?
This is a complete straw man. The reason why transfer caps are in place is not because the equipment is wearing out. My transfers this month don't affect anything next month. The analogy that you want is that you're coming over to my house and you're going to download your 5 TB through my switch. This is the reality of ISP networks -- shared infrastructure. Will that affect my experience? Quite possibly, because at times of heavy burst we'll be contending for the resources. If, on the other hand, I say "sure, come to my house but you can only have 500 GB" then you will, almost by definition, be contending for bandwidth less often than if I let you download 5 TB through my switch.
ISPs pay specifically for bandwidth usage based on a well accepted model commonly called 95th percentile billing because of how fairly and accurately it reflects a given link's impact on the network. Overall transfer over a given period, while it may be calculated, is irrelevant because the amount of data pushed through a link simply doesn't fucking matter.
How do you expect a consumer, who knows nothing about computer networks and just wants a fixed bill each month, to handle 95th percentile billing? It's completely unfeasible. It's very easy to say "Joe, you buy this plan and you can watch about 300 hrs of the youseTubes every month". Transfer is also very easy to track, and provides a nice "cut off" point, where the speed can be throttled by the ISP, or whatever they do to you over the cap.
I know some ISPs, who normally run with monthly transfer caps, that have plans based on a rolling usage vs priority system. As you transfer more they lower the QoS on your packets. This means that if the network isn't congested you can use as much as you like. This is a pretty fair system, but it's very difficult to explain and advertise to most end users.
If I literally possessed a LIMITLESS source of product (data transfer) and, irrespective of size, somehow managed to convince you that it was reasonable for me to charge you for a finite, expiring quantity of it, I'd laugh all the way to the fucking bank every time you came back for more.
Now it's your turn with the bull shit. The ISP in no way has a limitless amount if data transfer. Each month they have exactly their total bandwidth x (number of seconds in the month) to sell, use it or lose it. So, they portion it up sell it to you on the exact same basis -- some GB per month, use it or lose it. Now, they do oversell, and they do tend to sell you more than you'll use - relying on the light email user not to use the full 50 GB that he's paid for. However, they really have to
Three backlinks to your domain from a PR 8 site. Nice going.
That said, your site seems to work as promised. Getting any kind of decent product reviews out of Google is next to impossible these days, and sitetruth actually found some for me.
If you or your agent or exclusive licensee institute or order or agree to the institution of patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that this implementation of VP8 or any code incorporated within this implementation of VP8 constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, or inducement of patent infringement, then any patent rights granted to you under this License for this implementation of VP8 shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.
http://www.webmproject.org/license/additional/
So the day that somebody has a valid patent claim - which isn't that unlikely if you are honest - on any of the techniques used, you are in the possible same situation as with h.264 and VC-1
The way I read it this clause is, in effect, saying "If you accept this license, and then proceed to sue us for patent infringement, your rights to any of our patents are immediately void and thus we can counter-sue".
Note the use of "if you" and "rights granted to you". There is no indication here that any rights are revoked from other licensees if one licensee starts a patent infringement suit.
Well sapphire (corundum) is a form of alumina. Perhaps the GP was making a kind of pun on the Latin declensions -um and -a, representing the singular and the plural, playing on the American spelling "aluminum" (which sounds like the singular form of alumina) as opposed to the Commonwealth "aluminium".
Not that I disagree with your point (that they'd still be completely humans, with minor adaptations during growth comparable to i.e. Sherpas vs. the rest of us), but the atmosphere is no way going to be the same as Earth's; why in hell would you load up your dome (or other structure) with 2-3x the pressure stresses needed, and cost yourself more energy pumping airlocks, etc.?!
I recall reading of a study that indicates Sherpas are genetically different from the rest of us, and not simply adapted to high altitudes by virtue of having grown up there. I believe they found some grown-up, American-born children of Nepalese parents who had emigrated, and took them back to Nepal and none of them suffered from altitude sickness at all.
I think there would be a slight natural selection pressure - with those better able to tolerate martian conditions being healthier, and therefore more attractive to the opposite sex (supposing that the colonists were not sent as pre-selected breeding pairs). There's also a possibility that some women would have difficulty conceiving or carrying a child to term on Mars. Those genes would obviously be selected against.
I think a stronger selection pressure would be against some more "mundane" diseases that we can treat easily on Earth but would be a death sentence in a minimally-equipped space colony. Any kind of renal failure and you're probably done for. Diabetes and haemophilia (not that the latter is particularly common) would probably be very troublesome too.
No, Congress doesn't make engineering decisions. They make budget decisions, i.e., they ensure money get spent in their district by defining what to buy. If Congress made engineering decisions and something went wrong, they might get blamed and that would not be a good thing.
I think you're being facetious, but just in case you're not... Telling people what to buy is not a budget decision. A budget decision is telling people how much they can spend. That budget decision can come with some friendly suggestions like "We'd be fine with you re-using some of that inventory of Shuttle parts you have, if it would make things cheaper."
If you tell someone what parts to use, that is most definitely and engineering decision.
You don't know the source of that quote? Inconceivable!
http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0003786/quotes
Doesn't anyone else remember when a boot floppy with Norton Utilities and XTreeGold was the ultimate PC repair tool?
It's sad to see the name associated with a set of snake-oil "optimizers".
This is the norm in Britain. And it works. But trying to get people to do this in the States is like pulling teeth.
Yes, well, given that queuing is the national pastime of Britain, you would expect them to get it right.
The "right" regulation is to have the underlying infrastructure, most importantly the "last mile" distribution network, owned and maintained by the government -- just like the roads. Local, state, or federal government it really doesn't matter. I believe in the USA the regional governments are probably the more appropriate, although here in Australia we're planning on having the federal government* do it.
By selling access to the consumers on an equal basis to any ISP, the threat of monopoly is removed. This could open up real choice in the market. Only use the Internet for email? Buy a cheaper service that throttles video and bittorrent to a trickle, or has a monthly data cap. Want the lowest game ping? Choose the ISP with the best game servers, optimised routing to battle.net and Xbox Live, and QoS that pushes your game packets ahead of your torrents.
* This is actually a bit of a worry, because there's every possibility that they'll screw it up, and leave everyone with bad or expensive connections. With local governments in charge, you've always got the option of moving, or voting in some new administration. Internet access is rarely a nationally influential issue (as it was at the last federal election here). Unfortunately, Australia has too small of a population to support local government infrastructure like this, and we have the added issue of a lack of over-arching government for our major cities.
Sorry, the mnemonic works as you have it written. I had it the wrong way around.
At the cathode of a discharging battery cell, the chemical in the cell is being reduced and is thus gaining electrons. These electrons are, in a sense, taken from the electrode leaving it with a positive potential.
Could not a packing scheme be devised where the more commonly pressed keys use less bits, and the less commonly pressed use more? Some kind of Huffman coding, or a scheme like UTF-8 where a high-order bit set means a double-length code.
The anode is where oxidation happens, the cathode where reduction happens.
Then recall the OILRIG. Reduction is loss (of electrons), oxidation is gain (of electrons).
In the normal operation (discharge) of a cell, reduction is going on at the cathode, "sucking out" electrons, if you will, leaving a positive electrical potential. Thus, in normal operation the cathode is the cell/battery terminal marked +. The reverse is happening at the anode, which thus is the terminal marked -.
During charging, you're pumping electrons back into the negative terminal "forcing" reduction to happen there, and thus the negative terminal becomes a cathode.
Confusion can easily arrise because the relationship of cathode and anode to + and - markings is reversed for power sources and power sinks. Say you want to connect and LED to a battery. You connect the "negative", cathode lead to the negative battery terminal, and the anode lead to the positive terminal, but you're not connecting anode to anode. Think about a chained circuit of several devices -- it goes anode-cathode-anode-cathode all the way around. The battery (or other power source) is no different. The anode of the battery connects to the cathode of the LED.
Regular non-alcholic beer is for humans with a mental disorder.
If you think that to be true a priori, then I suspect you are just somebody who doesn't like beer. It's actually the test I use. If someone made a non-alcoholic beer that tasted exactly the same as an alcoholic beer, would you drink it? If you say "no", then you don't like beer, you just like alcohol.
Personally, I'd drink non-alcoholic beer (and whiskey and gin) if it met this criteria. Sadly, most commercially-available non- and low-alcohol beers are less tasty than their full-strength counterparts. This is because they have been made with less malt and/or subjected to processes like heating which drive off flavour compounds with the alcohol. We lack the technology to make good non-alcoholic beer.
If our processes have become more efficient, the solution is that we should all work less. In the early days of the industrial revolution, people worked from dawn until dusk, or in shifts around the clock, and only got Sundays off to go to church if they were lucky. Children worked too, so the amount of available labour in the market was much larger, in real terms, than it is today.
Labour laws aren't just there to give socialists a warm fuzzy feeling. They also keep unemployment rates down.
If unemployment gets to a steady 30%, we can all start taking 3-day weekends and have that 30% pick up the slack. Fantastic! Technology has improved our standard of living and everyone is happier.