How about this reasoning. With all the problems they've had getting people to upgrade so they can let the ancient XP and all it's vulnerabilities die, they've gone to an OS model where there will no longer be multiple versions of older iterations to support. You have a Windoz box you will have the current OS. No reason to keep having to maintain and patch old OS's and maintain often painful backwards compatibility if everyone is on the same OS. Sure IT depts. hate it. They want control. But for security and stability reasons it's to Microsoft's advantage to have a single version going forward to patch and maintain. iOS operates under this scheme, Android would as well if carriers and manufacturers would play along. People are pushing back because they are not used to this new concept, but for M$ it makes sense to be able to streamline their support systems by finally dumping the years and even decades of legacy OS version out there demanding at least minimal patching.
Amen. Not that I expect it to go anywhere, it may even already be dead, but Rep Mia Love of Utah has proposed H.R. 4335, or The One Subject at a Time Act that strives to do just that. Return some sense to the lawmaking process. and end these massive all inclusive bills with all their totally unrelated riders and amendments.
Except that/. didn't write the post. A user submitted the story based on an article. So either that user or the source of the article needs to eat crow. Not/. Don't shoot the messenger.
Why? Because despite the very poor case that SCO had, the case drug on for years, refusing to go away. Despite loss after loss after loss the battle drug on.
That and that alone is why copyright cases invariably raise the spectre of SCO. The case that just would not die. Rumor had it that a Blade IV movie would have had Blade going after the ultimate Undead Creature of all time: SCO.
It is in Texas but the courts in question are Federal Courts, not State courts. So Texas is not sponsoring any Scam. Why that circuit is so friendly to the trolls is a valid question. But it's not Texas that runs those courts.
I never said it was done as a policy, but the evidence is pretty strong that such gifts is how it was spread to the natives when Europeans first arrived in the Americas.
Very specific, as it's a rather different process than most vaccinations, it's not an injection. They scratch your skin deep enough to draw blood and apply the vaccine to the wound, this then gets to fester for about a week leaving a small scar. Every other one of the dozens of vaccinations I got over my career were injections.
Nothing crackpot. The reason the military resumed vaccinations was because of credible threat that the Russian stockpile was not secure and extremists might have obtained viable samples.
My comment does counter their position, the concern is not exposure of a lab worker at the CDC or USAMARIID, but in the weaponization of samples stolen from the Russian stock. And weaponizing is not hard. Blankets with pox scabs served to spread it quite effectively when Europeans arrived in the western hemisphere. We have a bit more natural resistance to it than they did, but as it's been globally eradicated for over 40 years so our resistance is dropping.
Just that the WHO declared Smallpox eradicated in the early 70's except for the two stocks maintained by the two superpowers.
As to my language, it just echoed that of the person I was replying to. Pointing out the fact that their response about it being "in the wild" is contrary to what the global medical community has stated for decades.
But that is contrary to the official view that small pox was eradicated in the wild in the early 70's. In other words it's supposedly not in the wild in other parts of the world. It was eradicated Globally, not just in the 1st world. The concern is that of the two known stockpiles the Russians are not known for maintaining strict security and it is feared that samples have been stolen and are in the hands of rogue nations or terror organizations.
IF the socket it's plugged into has a GFI, many homes still don't have those at all, or only have them in the bathrooms and kitchen. And then there are the capacitors in the TV itself.
The problem with this view is the assumption that the only sources are stockpiles held in 1st world labs. A few years ago the US Military decided, for reasons never publicized, to resume vaccinations of personnel deploying to certain regions of the world. If the only stores are in known 1st world labs under high level containment protocols why would they have started doing that?
To Clarify, the app has continued to evolve since being bought but along the same development lines as before purchase, and to this date does not have a Google feel to it's layout and design.
Don't know about YouTube, but Waze hasn't changed that much since being purchased and the team is still lead by the creator of the App. Thus it's still not really a Google app, Google owns them but they run mostly independently.
That 8th amendment argument has been attempted and failed. It's not popular but the firing squad is a method that has withstood constitutional challenge, thus Utah's choice to reinstate it as a method if injection components are not available. More states ought to look to it. It's quick and sure.
You grant a lot more power to the Millennials than they are due.
The decision was by the CEO and current board. All mostly Boomers with maybe a few Gen X'ers. You also assume a universal opinion within said generation. And imagine legal backlash that does not exist.
Simply put those at the top decided they don't like the death penalty (which is their choice). And acted in a way they can control to stop it. It won't stop it, other methods are available and will be used instead.
Sadly it is true. And the appeals are the reason. Both a life sentence and a death sentence cost roughly 30k a year to house them The expensive part is the multiple, expensive appeals over every little bit of minutia. The actual execution is not what adds to the cost, nor is being housed on the so-called Death Row. But the repeated trips all the way up to the Supreme Court, all on the tax payer's dime are the real expensive part of the process.
The only reason it costs more is because a death penalty sentence, which used to take between 10 and 15 years tops to carry out, is now averaging over 20 years of lengthy and expensive appeals, often over the most ridiculous of minutia. Yes a strong an robust appeal process needs to exist because tragically mistakes have been made. But the process is too drawn out, allowing repeated appeal climbs up the ladder to the Supreme Court. One or two complete appeal cycles then get it done.
There are many on Death Row who are likely to die of old age before they get to the actual execution.
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How about this reasoning. With all the problems they've had getting people to upgrade so they can let the ancient XP and all it's vulnerabilities die, they've gone to an OS model where there will no longer be multiple versions of older iterations to support. You have a Windoz box you will have the current OS. No reason to keep having to maintain and patch old OS's and maintain often painful backwards compatibility if everyone is on the same OS. Sure IT depts. hate it. They want control. But for security and stability reasons it's to Microsoft's advantage to have a single version going forward to patch and maintain. iOS operates under this scheme, Android would as well if carriers and manufacturers would play along. People are pushing back because they are not used to this new concept, but for M$ it makes sense to be able to streamline their support systems by finally dumping the years and even decades of legacy OS version out there demanding at least minimal patching.
But then how would we know that the company hasn't perfected time travel and intends to implement a new policy going backwards?
Even worse, the summary is basically a copy and paste of the first couple paragraphs of the second link, yet the submitter manages to change 65 to 68.
Okay I'm done whining about this.
Editors please proofread. 68 million user affected yet 65 million unique emails and passwords, so where are the additional 3 million users affected?
Amen. Not that I expect it to go anywhere, it may even already be dead, but Rep Mia Love of Utah has proposed H.R. 4335, or The One Subject at a Time Act that strives to do just that. Return some sense to the lawmaking process. and end these massive all inclusive bills with all their totally unrelated riders and amendments.
Except that /. didn't write the post. A user submitted the story based on an article. So either that user or the source of the article needs to eat crow. Not /. Don't shoot the messenger.
Why? Because despite the very poor case that SCO had, the case drug on for years, refusing to go away. Despite loss after loss after loss the battle drug on.
That and that alone is why copyright cases invariably raise the spectre of SCO. The case that just would not die. Rumor had it that a Blade IV movie would have had Blade going after the ultimate Undead Creature of all time: SCO.
It is in Texas but the courts in question are Federal Courts, not State courts. So Texas is not sponsoring any Scam. Why that circuit is so friendly to the trolls is a valid question. But it's not Texas that runs those courts.
They will, with a free brain OS upgrade to Windows for Brains 10.
I never said it was done as a policy, but the evidence is pretty strong that such gifts is how it was spread to the natives when Europeans first arrived in the Americas.
One Case where it was specifically the mode used,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Pitt#Biological_warfare
And only one individual a Billionaire who runs around in tights fighting crime will use it.
"Trust us, we'll only use it for good(ish) purposes!"
Very specific, as it's a rather different process than most vaccinations, it's not an injection. They scratch your skin deep enough to draw blood and apply the vaccine to the wound, this then gets to fester for about a week leaving a small scar. Every other one of the dozens of vaccinations I got over my career were injections.
Nothing crackpot. The reason the military resumed vaccinations was because of credible threat that the Russian stockpile was not secure and extremists might have obtained viable samples.
My comment does counter their position, the concern is not exposure of a lab worker at the CDC or USAMARIID, but in the weaponization of samples stolen from the Russian stock. And weaponizing is not hard. Blankets with pox scabs served to spread it quite effectively when Europeans arrived in the western hemisphere. We have a bit more natural resistance to it than they did, but as it's been globally eradicated for over 40 years so our resistance is dropping.
Just that the WHO declared Smallpox eradicated in the early 70's except for the two stocks maintained by the two superpowers.
As to my language, it just echoed that of the person I was replying to. Pointing out the fact that their response about it being "in the wild" is contrary to what the global medical community has stated for decades.
I avoided it in 2008 only because I suffer Eczema, otherwise I'd have the scar too.
But that is contrary to the official view that small pox was eradicated in the wild in the early 70's. In other words it's supposedly not in the wild in other parts of the world. It was eradicated Globally, not just in the 1st world. The concern is that of the two known stockpiles the Russians are not known for maintaining strict security and it is feared that samples have been stolen and are in the hands of rogue nations or terror organizations.
IF the socket it's plugged into has a GFI, many homes still don't have those at all, or only have them in the bathrooms and kitchen. And then there are the capacitors in the TV itself.
PP is correct in calling that a Darwin candidate.
The problem with this view is the assumption that the only sources are stockpiles held in 1st world labs. A few years ago the US Military decided, for reasons never publicized, to resume vaccinations of personnel deploying to certain regions of the world. If the only stores are in known 1st world labs under high level containment protocols why would they have started doing that?
To Clarify, the app has continued to evolve since being bought but along the same development lines as before purchase, and to this date does not have a Google feel to it's layout and design.
Don't know about YouTube, but Waze hasn't changed that much since being purchased and the team is still lead by the creator of the App. Thus it's still not really a Google app, Google owns them but they run mostly independently.
That 8th amendment argument has been attempted and failed. It's not popular but the firing squad is a method that has withstood constitutional challenge, thus Utah's choice to reinstate it as a method if injection components are not available. More states ought to look to it. It's quick and sure.
You grant a lot more power to the Millennials than they are due.
The decision was by the CEO and current board. All mostly Boomers with maybe a few Gen X'ers. You also assume a universal opinion within said generation. And imagine legal backlash that does not exist.
Simply put those at the top decided they don't like the death penalty (which is their choice). And acted in a way they can control to stop it. It won't stop it, other methods are available and will be used instead.
Sadly it is true. And the appeals are the reason. Both a life sentence and a death sentence cost roughly 30k a year to house them The expensive part is the multiple, expensive appeals over every little bit of minutia. The actual execution is not what adds to the cost, nor is being housed on the so-called Death Row. But the repeated trips all the way up to the Supreme Court, all on the tax payer's dime are the real expensive part of the process.
The only reason it costs more is because a death penalty sentence, which used to take between 10 and 15 years tops to carry out, is now averaging over 20 years of lengthy and expensive appeals, often over the most ridiculous of minutia. Yes a strong an robust appeal process needs to exist because tragically mistakes have been made. But the process is too drawn out, allowing repeated appeal climbs up the ladder to the Supreme Court. One or two complete appeal cycles then get it done.
There are many on Death Row who are likely to die of old age before they get to the actual execution.