They are contributing to cifs? That explains the push to jump from a default of SMB 1.0 (unsafe on external-exposed networks) to a SMB default that would exclude win7 by default. Sure users could reset the proto back to SMB2.1, for Win7, but MS-CIFS contributors were pushing for an SMB3.x default that would have excluded Win7. Linus asked why, but never got a solid answer. Supposedly a multi-proto version was to be the default in the next (4.14) release that should allow Win7 by default, but in 4.13, CIFS developers put in a default to exclude Win7.
I wondered why Linux devs would be so "hot" on the Win10 SMB3 when from a linux point of view, they shouldn't care. Now I know why...
The problems w/email are scripts and, potentially, links. Images? When was the last time you saw a bug in legacy image handling of GIF's, jpg's and png's? I've seen some new image formats that had bugs, but the old ones?
But even putting images aside -- I don't recall any bugs involving text formatting & markup. There's a big difference between full blown browser supported HTML, and basic text formatting used even on this site!
Are you reading this message? It's been formatted with HTML-markup. When's the last time slashdot has been a vector for a virus?
Seem like the researchers are just plain stupid if they can't differentiate between text markup commands and automation. Even slashdot allows links to articles -- are those suppose to be unsafe? What happens if I have the text "https://www.google.com/search?q=is+this+safe", in my text. Is that inherently unsafe?
Maybe its time for people to stop running around telling us the sky is falling?
They might not like him for creating a new currency -- If he's a US citizen, that is likely illegal. They can claim he is supporting terrorism by creating an untraceable currency. They can point to an increase in untraceable transactions -- money laundering -- supporting and an all crimes -- they can blame almost anything -- and then....
If they can't prove it, they can do to him what they did to Capone and hit this "millionaire" for tax evasion.
Or do you think he paid taxes on all his bitcoins?
If Everyone does 'X', it will be "horrible"... always dubious start to an argument. But first, about Japan...
One of the smaller, wealthier, but overcrowded nations in the world is having a problem replacing native Japanese with more natives? They can't afford it because prices are too high because there is too much overcrowding: Japan's population is still *increasing* at a rate greater than the replacement rate. The problem is not a lack of young replacing old, but a lack of native Japanese replacing older Japanese.
The US has the same "problem", but it isn't spun that way. Instead it's spun as being one of the largest melding pots and its been published as fact how already, and increasingly so, "Euro-descended" people are no longer a majority in most areas (though they are still a plurality in most). Within this century Euro-descended citizens will not even be a plurality in most areas.
In Japan, as in the US, the 'mix' of national-descents is changing. So little chance of _humans_ dying out in Japan or the US due to "natural causes". Statistically, its usually the smarter people who put off having children because they want to focus and ensure quality of life for their children.
You used a poor example for your "if everyone does 'X', some horrible thing will happen" line. On top of the poor example, the premise fails because no group of people ever act with the uniformity demanded by premise.
It's never the case, in the macrocosm, that "EVERYONE" agrees on something and ALL choose the same action, so using that as an argument supporting anything is meaningless. Just because it is true that almost all space is filled with 'nothing' (or almost all space is filled with vacuum), doesn't mean one has to be afraid of or worry about the concept being taken to the extreme.
Hearing damage in a particular sound range is consistently found to be from noise in that range. That they'd come up with the idea of "hearing" damage from an ultrasonic weapon is about as plausible as fetuses getting hearing damage from an ultrasound or humans suffering color blindness from being exposed to X-rays.
A more probable cause would be chemically induced hearing loss as some medications are known to cause hearing loss: aspirin and other NSAIDS (like ibuprofen), some antibiotics, some cancer drugs and some high-blood pressure meds -- especially in combination with other potentiators.
Since it is only diplomats being affected, I'd look at possibilities of prescribed drugs for state personnel visiting Cuba or Caribbean countries & interactions.
In case you forgot, google allows you to spend 20% of your time on your own projects. No one said you have to be an expert on something to present your own opinions. To the contrary -- it's the experts that demoted Pluto in closed session. More often than not, experts spout their field's latest dogma as fact which is later reversed due to more research. Being an expert doesn't mean you are right -- just well versed in your fields latest gospel.
Not just two wrongs, but a 1000's if not 10's of thousands.
Everyone one has their pet projects that they want to see supported by the government. Until we get the government out of the free market and cut defense spending to stop playing world policeman, it will feel free to spend the lion's share in things that aren't even examined.
I.e. compare Musk's benefits 5B, w/investment bank benefits (~2T), or tax benefits for state-sponsored religions ($$??), etc...I'd rather see something spent on tech than other things that cost much more, yet you don't see people wanting to know about government cuts in "sacred cows"... If the US won't fund NASA in space, maybe Musk getting tax-cuts to get us to Mars isn't so bad.
Sides -- it's not the small stuff that is the problem -- it's the system itself.
Separation of church and state is built into the constitution as well. Do you see the government getting out of taxbreaks for churches anytime soon?
Can people/businesses get by with out any government handouts in the form of tax breaks (incentives, rebates, credits, etc).
How about "non-profits", or government support of churches by not requiring religions to pay property tax on their holdings?
If I don't go to a mainstream church, and worship in my home, why should the mainstream churches get tax breaks and not me?
The government is always "meddling" by creating tax breaks for "behaviors" that it "desires". I.e. tax free donations, etc.
In 2007-2008, Bush gave a huge government bailout to the Investment Banks -- should we ask if they could have survived w/o the handout?
So Musk's companies are taking advantage of areas where the government offers tax benefits -- why is anyone asking about "Musk" (personally) or his company, when he's exercising the same tax benefits available to MANY other companies, organizations and people.
Why not go after ALL the tax breaks for "everything" and not just single out "Musk" for his businesses benefiting from government policy?
Many companies and businesses would FAIL bigtime without government financing. Think of the military industrial complex -- can they exist w/o government benefits?
Apparently having large amounts of cash on you can get it stolen by "police"/law enforcement[sic] in states like Texas & Florida with little or no chance of getting it back (thus the word stolen), as they "presume" that the money is "tainted" money that is involved in illegal activities. They don't have to prosecute the carrier under the forfeiture laws -- that way, they don't have to honor constitutional protections. While lawmakers in some states are talking about reforms, they are slow in coming. See "How Police Officers Seize Cash from innocent Americans (https://priceonomics.com/how-police-officers-seize-cash-from-innocent/), Forbes: Copys in Texas Seize Millions by "Policing for Profit" (https://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2014/06/05/cops-in-texas-seize-millions-by-policing-for-profit/) & Cops Use Traffic Stops To Seize Millions From Drivers Never Charged With A Crime (https://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2014/03/12/cops-use-traffic-stops-to-seize-millions-from-drivers-never-charged-with-a-crime/).
Basically, the police make big money stealing things and permanently impound money and property with the owner having to prove the money is "innocent" (not tainted or laundered).
I'd be more afraid of these thugs than most others, as the cops can do it in broad daylight with full support of the law.:-(
The scheduling algorithm in Linux is also configurable. Microsoft could make the choice to allow alternate schedulers without changing the default schedulers. They *could* be alot more creative and flexible in what they allow, but they have little to no incentive to do so.
They forced Win10 down people's throats complete with forced updates and advertising. They need only look at Adobe's huge rise in profitability as they moved to a subscription-only model that Adobe moved to because they couldn't be troubled to produce products anymore that would motivate people to upgrade and/or buy. Microsoft is in a similar position -- new development costs too much -- they desktop dreams of Bill Gates introducing use of 3D graphics and relational file system for information processing and presentation never materialized, with Win7 being MS's pinnacle of desktop systems as the masses are separated from their general purpose creativity stations (PC's), and are given consumer devices that need cloud (read "mainframe") support again that will be time shared just like computer systems in the 70's.
Sorry, guess I veered off from MS's lack of incentive to improve technological innovation or attempt excellence into market directions. Remember the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley", where Gates claimed he had won? Did he?
Windows has many single-threaded allocators and still does polling for some desktop functions.
Compare this to linux where I can run a kernel build saturating 12 cores for a few minutes, that has no effect on linux UI performance. This is due to the scheduler that is able to separate out cpu-intensive loads from interactive loads allowing their scheduling to be optimized.
It's not true that cpus only execute single threads per "cycle". Today's cpus -- not running "hyper-threaded", still execute several threads in parallel due to speculative execution. On top of that, there are many HW processors in a modern computer other than the cpu -- audio, graphics, multiple-IO processors are just a few. It's evident that windows does polling when you suspend a background process and it causes long desktop lockups -- that just doesn't happen on linux.
Doi! Good point. My desktop (6 cores; 96GB; RAID0 of SSD's) becomes unresponsive every time I start Chrome, lasting about 5-7 seconds. It's annoying enough that I don't use Chrome. Never happens if I leave it up all the time, just on startup. I'm guessing maybe a graphics contention issue as each chrome window allocates its own graphics resources, but that's just a guess (have GTX1080 but it's limited by an older PCIe bus.
As for OP prob... haven't done enough builds on Win to notice any probs in that area.
I have noticed that Windows still seems to poll processes for various activities such that suspending a process in Windows can cause LONG delays in normal desktop functions.
Windows also has a fundamental block in that processes are started in 1 place, versus on *nix where processes spawn from any other process (i.e. distributed process spawning). It's likely there are several "choke points" that would become worse as more cores contend for single-threaded resource allocators.
So, if you have no plans because you haven't found a job... that didn't seem to be on their list. Or can you say your plan is to "take some time off to think about what you want to do"?
My bet is as 2020 approaches and they actually try to implement this -- they'll realize all the holes the new plan has.
For the person thinking this would increase poverty -- if this law went into effect, some court will order the school to give out a diploma equivalency document for someone who didn't want to disclose their future plans at graduation.
Similar to the pluses and minuses of Address Space Randomization. Right now, in the static part of the kernel, different subsystems are linked together into 1 binary that is loaded into memory at boot. Along with the assumption that the different subsystems could be linked together in many valid orders, that link could be done when the kernel boots so the different sections of the kernel would load in different places relative to each other. in memory.
The problem would be when 1 compilation or binary kernel becomes widely distributed such that malware could rely on the relative positions of different subsystems in memory. Using that knowledge might make it easier for malware to make use of different subsystems at run time -- on the premise if you know where 1 is, you know where all the rest are. If you can load subsystems, unpredictably at boot, it would be harder for today's malware to make use of. Instead, the malware would have to replicated the loading algorithm and try to reproduce the load order by calculation to make the same use of those subsystems -- another level of difficulty for malware wanting to use existing subsystems.
Static load order would be most problematic for embedded binaries that come off a ROM and less so for binaries distributed by a large distro. It's also more problematic if the subsystems are linked together in the same order at compile time (which, AFAIK, they are for the linux kernel).
That link order could potentially be randomized at link time which would have a large amount of the same benefit as the boot-time randomization for end-user-systems that are locally compiled (with some pluses & minuses).
I don't know that the benefit of this feature has been quantified or is easily quantifiable. The deficits of this feature I would think minimal in a production (non-development/non-debuggable) product.
It was mentioned because a large number of people in the country are Muslim. I.e. even though the country wasn't on the banned country list, this group of engineers was still denied entry -- evidence that the US is more interested in a Muslim ban than a 6-country ban.
It should be automatic (how long will humans pay attention?), and powered by the dam using lo-tech wheel & cogs that won't need maintenance for the life of the dam.
I have seen enough anime to know where this is going. Ban all sex with all things that does not have free will!
Combine that with the idea that all 'free will' is an illusion or like the lead character, Lightning, in FFXIII asking, How would she know if she had free will?...And all her actions weren't directed by someone else [in a video game]?
"'The deal was that we give them a temporary monopoly and in return they add to the public domain. Sonny Bono & Mickey Mouse suspended public domain indefinitely, and thus have reneged on their side of the social contract. Why should we continue to uphold our end of the bargain?'
This is a common argument, but a lame one. The vast majority of content that is illegally shared online is very recent, often less than a year or two old. It would have been covered by copyright even in the original form with just a few years of protection for the rightsholder."
The argument is very appropriate. If the government levies a fine against someone for having embezzled money that was used to buy expensive clothing and electronics, the government doesn't limit it's fine collection to proceeds from selling the person's tech-toys and clothing -- they go after their bank account(s), retirement funds, their home and levy their paycheck -- none of which, one might argue, is associated with the embezzled funds.
Same for balancing social contracts -- you don't go after the 30-year old movies, where you only will get payback over a long time and if you have a large library, you go after the properties that will provide more immediate payback.
The large corps aren't going to "play fair", since they have millions of times the money to fight you, buy their congress critters, justices and laws. Who wrote the laws to break up net neutrality and allow providers to charge as they wish? Comcast(NBC Universal). How many citizens can write laws to give to their owned-congress critters and have them signed?
The whole legal system is constantly being recreated to create new types of ownership for corporations with new laws to backup the newly created properties. Think of the whole "Intellectual Property" w/respect to songs and other performances. Recording technology enabled creation of a whole new genre of "Property" -- but are the benefits spread throughout society, or are they concentrated in a small fraction of society at the expense of the rest?
You can't begin to even out the inequalities by thinking you must adhere to fairness. Fairness (along w/religion and morals) is what they teach the masses to make them easier to manipulate.
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Are these the same guys who announce the end-of-email every few years?
They are contributing to cifs? That explains the push to jump from a default of SMB 1.0 (unsafe on external-exposed networks) to a SMB default that would exclude win7 by default. Sure users could reset the proto back to SMB2.1, for Win7, but MS-CIFS contributors were pushing for an SMB3.x default that would have excluded Win7. Linus asked why, but never got a solid answer. Supposedly a multi-proto version was to be the default in the next (4.14) release that should allow Win7 by default, but in 4.13, CIFS developers put in a default to exclude Win7.
I wondered why Linux devs would be so "hot" on the Win10 SMB3 when from a linux point of view, they shouldn't care. Now I know why...
The problems w/email are scripts and, potentially, links. Images? When was the last time you saw a bug in legacy image handling of GIF's, jpg's and png's? I've seen some new image formats that had bugs, but the old ones?
But even putting images aside -- I don't recall any bugs involving text formatting & markup. There's a big difference between full blown browser supported HTML, and basic text formatting used even on this site!
Are you reading this message? It's been formatted with HTML-markup. When's the last time slashdot has been a vector for a virus?
Seem like the researchers are just plain stupid if they can't differentiate between text markup commands and automation. Even slashdot allows links to articles -- are those suppose to be unsafe? What happens if I have the text "https://www.google.com/search?q=is+this+safe", in my text. Is that inherently unsafe?
Maybe its time for people to stop running around telling us the sky is falling?
They might not like him for creating a new currency -- If he's a US citizen, that is likely illegal. They can claim he is supporting terrorism by creating an untraceable currency. They can point to an increase in untraceable transactions -- money laundering -- supporting and an all crimes -- they can blame almost anything -- and then ....
If they can't prove it, they can do to him what they did to Capone and hit this "millionaire" for tax evasion.
Or do you think he paid taxes on all his bitcoins?
If Everyone does 'X', it will be "horrible"... always dubious start to an argument. But first, about Japan...
One of the smaller, wealthier, but overcrowded nations in the world is having a problem replacing native Japanese with more natives? They can't afford it because prices are too high because there is too much overcrowding: Japan's population is still *increasing* at a rate greater than the replacement rate. The problem is not a lack of young replacing old, but a lack of native Japanese replacing older Japanese.
The US has the same "problem", but it isn't spun that way. Instead it's spun as being one of the largest melding pots and its been published as fact how already, and increasingly so, "Euro-descended" people are no longer a majority in most areas (though they are still a plurality in most). Within this century Euro-descended citizens will not even be a plurality in most areas.
In Japan, as in the US, the 'mix' of national-descents is changing. So little chance of _humans_ dying out in Japan or the US due to "natural causes". Statistically, its usually the smarter people who put off having children because they want to focus and ensure quality of life for their children.
You used a poor example for your "if everyone does 'X', some horrible thing will happen" line. On top of the poor example, the premise fails because no group of people ever act with the uniformity demanded by premise.
It's never the case, in the macrocosm, that "EVERYONE" agrees on something and ALL choose the same action, so using that as an argument supporting anything is meaningless. Just because it is true that almost all space is filled with 'nothing' (or almost all space is filled with vacuum), doesn't mean one has to be afraid of or worry about the concept being taken to the extreme.
Hearing damage in a particular sound range is consistently found to be from noise in that range. That they'd come up with the idea of "hearing" damage from an ultrasonic weapon is about as plausible as fetuses getting hearing damage from an ultrasound or humans suffering color blindness from being exposed to X-rays.
A more probable cause would be chemically induced hearing loss as some medications are known to cause hearing loss: aspirin and other NSAIDS (like ibuprofen), some antibiotics, some cancer drugs and some high-blood pressure meds -- especially in combination with other potentiators.
Since it is only diplomats being affected, I'd look at possibilities of prescribed drugs for state personnel visiting Cuba or Caribbean countries & interactions.
In case you forgot, google allows you to spend 20% of your time on your own projects. No one said you have to be an expert on something to present your own opinions. To the contrary -- it's the experts that demoted Pluto in closed session. More often than not, experts spout their field's latest dogma as fact which is later reversed due to more research. Being an expert doesn't mean you are right -- just well versed in your fields latest gospel.
Not just two wrongs, but a 1000's if not 10's of thousands.
Everyone one has their pet projects that they want to see supported by the government. Until we get the government out of the free market and cut defense spending to stop playing world policeman, it will feel free to spend the lion's share in things that aren't even examined.
I.e. compare Musk's benefits 5B, w/investment bank benefits (~2T), or tax benefits for state-sponsored religions ($$??), etc...I'd rather see something spent on tech than other things that cost much more, yet you don't see people wanting to know about government cuts in "sacred cows"... If the US won't fund NASA in space, maybe Musk getting tax-cuts to get us to Mars isn't so bad.
Sides -- it's not the small stuff that is the problem -- it's the system itself.
Separation of church and state is built into the constitution as well. Do you see the government getting out of taxbreaks for churches anytime soon?
Can people/businesses get by with out any government handouts in the form of tax breaks (incentives, rebates, credits, etc).
How about "non-profits", or government support of churches by not requiring religions to pay property tax on their holdings?
If I don't go to a mainstream church, and worship in my home, why should the mainstream churches get tax breaks and not me?
The government is always "meddling" by creating tax breaks for "behaviors" that it "desires". I.e. tax free donations, etc.
In 2007-2008, Bush gave a huge government bailout to the Investment Banks -- should we ask if they could have survived w/o the handout?
So Musk's companies are taking advantage of areas where the government offers tax benefits -- why is anyone asking about "Musk" (personally) or his company, when he's exercising the same tax benefits available to MANY other companies, organizations and people.
Why not go after ALL the tax breaks for "everything" and not just single out "Musk" for his businesses benefiting from government policy?
Many companies and businesses would FAIL bigtime without government financing. Think of the military industrial complex -- can they exist w/o government benefits?
Apparently having large amounts of cash on you can get it stolen by "police"/law enforcement[sic] in states like Texas & Florida with little or no chance of getting it back (thus the word stolen), as they "presume" that the money is "tainted" money that is involved in illegal activities. They don't have to prosecute the carrier under the forfeiture laws -- that way, they don't have to honor constitutional protections. While lawmakers in some states are talking about reforms, they are slow in coming. See "How Police Officers Seize Cash from innocent Americans (https://priceonomics.com/how-police-officers-seize-cash-from-innocent/), Forbes: Copys in Texas Seize Millions by "Policing for Profit" (https://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2014/06/05/cops-in-texas-seize-millions-by-policing-for-profit/) & Cops Use Traffic Stops To Seize Millions From Drivers Never Charged With A Crime (https://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2014/03/12/cops-use-traffic-stops-to-seize-millions-from-drivers-never-charged-with-a-crime/).
Basically, the police make big money stealing things and permanently impound money and property with the owner having to prove the money is "innocent" (not tainted or laundered).
I'd be more afraid of these thugs than most others, as the cops can do it in broad daylight with full support of the law. :-(
The scheduling algorithm in Linux is also configurable. Microsoft could make the choice to allow alternate schedulers without changing the default schedulers. They *could* be alot more creative and flexible in what they allow, but they have little to no incentive to do so.
They forced Win10 down people's throats complete with forced updates and advertising. They need only look at Adobe's huge rise in profitability as they moved to a subscription-only model that Adobe moved to because they couldn't be troubled to produce products anymore that would motivate people to upgrade and/or buy. Microsoft is in a similar position -- new development costs too much -- they desktop dreams of Bill Gates introducing use of 3D graphics and relational file system for information processing and presentation never materialized, with Win7 being MS's pinnacle of desktop systems as the masses are separated from their general purpose creativity stations (PC's), and are given consumer devices that need cloud (read "mainframe") support again that will be time shared just like computer systems in the 70's.
Sorry, guess I veered off from MS's lack of incentive to improve technological innovation or attempt excellence into market directions. Remember the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley", where Gates claimed he had won? Did he?
Windows has many single-threaded allocators and still does polling for some desktop functions.
Compare this to linux where I can run a kernel build saturating 12 cores for a few minutes, that has no effect on linux UI performance. This is due to the scheduler that is able to separate out cpu-intensive loads from interactive loads allowing their scheduling to be optimized.
It's not true that cpus only execute single threads per "cycle". Today's cpus -- not running "hyper-threaded", still execute several threads in parallel due to speculative execution. On top of that, there are many HW processors in a modern computer other than the cpu -- audio, graphics, multiple-IO processors are just a few. It's evident that windows does polling when you suspend a background process and it causes long desktop lockups -- that just doesn't happen on linux.
Doi! Good point. My desktop (6 cores; 96GB; RAID0 of SSD's) becomes unresponsive every time I start Chrome, lasting about 5-7 seconds. It's annoying enough that I don't use Chrome. Never happens if I leave it up all the time, just on startup. I'm guessing maybe a graphics contention issue as each chrome window allocates its own graphics resources, but that's just a guess (have GTX1080 but it's limited by an older PCIe bus.
As for OP prob... haven't done enough builds on Win to notice any probs in that area.
I have noticed that Windows still seems to poll processes for various activities such that suspending a process in Windows can cause LONG delays in normal desktop functions.
Windows also has a fundamental block in that processes are started in 1 place, versus on *nix where processes spawn from any other process (i.e. distributed process spawning). It's likely there are several "choke points" that would become worse as more cores contend for single-threaded resource allocators.
Thanks for the clue-stick! ;-)
This has happened when starting Chrome since first trying Chrome.
Tried limiting Chrome to 3/6 cores and even then mouse goes jerky.
It may not be the exact same cause, but it is the exact same symptom.
I replied to someone asking why their country -- Afghanistan was mentioned as not part of the 6 country ban...
Is saying someone is from Afghanistan infering something about their intellect or reasoning abilities?
Perhaps your reasoning abilities need to be examined?
So, if you have no plans because you haven't found a job ... that didn't seem to be on their list. Or can you say your plan is to "take some time off to think about what you want to do"?
My bet is as 2020 approaches and they actually try to implement this -- they'll realize all the holes the new plan has.
For the person thinking this would increase poverty -- if this law went into effect, some court will order the school to give out a diploma equivalency document for someone who didn't want to disclose their future plans at graduation.
Similar to the pluses and minuses of Address Space Randomization. Right now, in the static part of the kernel, different subsystems are linked together into 1 binary that is loaded into memory at boot. Along with the assumption that the different subsystems could be linked together in many valid orders, that link could be done when the kernel boots so the different sections of the kernel would load in different places relative to each other. in memory.
The problem would be when 1 compilation or binary kernel becomes widely distributed such that malware could rely on the relative positions of different subsystems in memory. Using that knowledge might make it easier for malware to make use of different subsystems at run time -- on the premise if you know where 1 is, you know where all the rest are. If you can load subsystems, unpredictably at boot, it would be harder for today's malware to make use of. Instead, the malware would have to replicated the loading algorithm and try to reproduce the load order by calculation to make the same use of those subsystems -- another level of difficulty for malware wanting to use existing subsystems.
Static load order would be most problematic for embedded binaries that come off a ROM and less so for binaries distributed by a large distro. It's also more problematic if the subsystems are linked together in the same order at compile time (which, AFAIK, they are for the linux kernel).
That link order could potentially be randomized at link time which would have a large amount of the same benefit as the boot-time randomization for end-user-systems that are locally compiled (with some pluses & minuses).
I don't know that the benefit of this feature has been quantified or is easily quantifiable. The deficits of this feature I would think minimal in a production (non-development/non-debuggable) product.
Are you stupid or just ignorant?
It was mentioned because a large number of people in the country are Muslim. I.e. even though the country wasn't on the banned country list, this group of engineers was still denied entry -- evidence that the US is more interested in a Muslim ban than a 6-country ban.
It should be automatic (how long will humans pay attention?), and powered by the dam using lo-tech wheel & cogs that won't need maintenance for the life of the dam.
Isn't that sorta how zombies walk?
Combine that with the idea that all 'free will' is an illusion or like the lead character, Lightning, in FFXIII asking, How would she know if she had free will? ...And all her actions weren't directed by someone else [in a video game]?
Given the high price of good yoga classes, can we get insurance to pay for it. How about time-off 3x/week to goto yoga class?
Versus... getting higher monetary payments for "physical therapy" &
time-off to go to doctors' visits and therapy?
Which is easier for the employee?
Yeah -- they ask on stackoverflow.com... ;^/
Which always seems to be set before you got there.
The argument is very appropriate. If the government levies a fine against someone for having embezzled money that was used to buy expensive clothing and electronics, the government doesn't limit it's fine collection to proceeds from selling the person's tech-toys and clothing -- they go after their bank account(s), retirement funds, their home and levy their paycheck -- none of which, one might argue, is associated with the embezzled funds.
Same for balancing social contracts -- you don't go after the 30-year old movies, where you only will get payback over a long time and if you have a large library, you go after the properties that will provide more immediate payback.
The large corps aren't going to "play fair", since they have millions of times the money to fight you, buy their congress critters, justices and laws. Who wrote the laws to break up net neutrality and allow providers to charge as they wish? Comcast(NBC Universal). How many citizens can write laws to give to their owned-congress critters and have them signed?
The whole legal system is constantly being recreated to create new types of ownership for corporations with new laws to backup the newly created properties. Think of the whole "Intellectual Property" w/respect to songs and other performances. Recording technology enabled creation of a whole new genre of "Property" -- but are the benefits spread throughout society, or are they concentrated in a small fraction of society at the expense of the rest?
You can't begin to even out the inequalities by thinking you must adhere to fairness. Fairness (along w/religion and morals) is what they teach the masses to make them easier to manipulate.