How the government handles things makes a big difference. When I was last in Manhattan, about 3 years ago, I noticed that it smelled different than it had for the preceding 50 years. I finally figured out that the smell of urine was gone. That was the result of government policy.
The new far left mayor of New York City has pushed through legislation to make it legal to defecate in public in NYC. Expect the old odors to return.
When Boeing tried to expand to "right to work" states, unions stuck and threatened to shut down Boeing permanently. Boeing caved. Without left-wing government support of union thuggery, this would not be possible.
The President is Constitutionally obligated to spend the money that Congress allocates
Please quote the exact clause(s) that create that obligation. My understanding is that the legislature and the Supreme Court have limited the president's discretion, not eliminated it - otherwise the wall along the Mexican border (already funded) would have been built.
The President takes an oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." That would include preventing the spending of money for unConstitutional purposes.
Written English sentence structure is a human invention, subject to improvement. The improvement of putting other punctuation inside or outside of quotes depending upon where it makes logical sense is a recent development, used mostly by technical people with a strong sense of hierarchy. It reduces ambiguity. It should be embraced.
The use of fossil fuel brings far more benefit to the life of the very poor than the very rich. For the poor, it's the difference between life and death.
Having fun calling people morons? You're promoting death.
Due to traction limitations of steel-on-steel, locomotives are heavy by design and the diesel-electric weight is not a disadvantage. The same does not apply to airplanes.
OK, what are the apps that "ordinary people" use? Internet browser, for facebook & news & research & shopping & email, done. Photo sorting and editing, done. Video playing and download, done. Office tools, done, and that's already edging out of the "ordinary people" category..
Next in widespread use is gaming, where Linux is weak but not absent.
What's missing is some organization to take the cost advantage of Linux and make it into a successful computer brand.
Some time well before 2000 the techniques of photo-realism and trompe l'oeil were perfected, so one of the primary ways to judge advances in paintings became obsolete. 20th-century artists with recognizable names - Andy Warhol, Frank Frazetta, Peter Max, M. C. Escher among many others - are known by distinctive styles and visions. Styles are not as widely accepted as "great" compared to technical excellence, so a smaller portion of experts will recognize a given modern artist as a genius.
That this episode of the FBI vs Apple has come to public attention proves that the FBI is grossly incompetent. When the public (and therefor terrorists) no longer believes that phone information is absolutely safe, other means of communication will be used: government loses a powerful tool against its enemies. This is a hideous strategic blunder.
If you have a steady supply of electricity, the refrigerator-sized machine needed to supply pills is called a "refrigerator". If you don't have a steady supply of electricity, a complex gadget like this will be worthless in a disaster.
Once a designer is given the requirement that his chip be resistant to cracking by decapping, there are a lot of tricks he can play to make the cracker's job very difficult. Things like replacing metal conductors with doped silicon to hide their existence, or adding intrusion-detection flash cells that disable memory reads when UV is used to erase memory-protection flash cells. Things like 2 layers of metal protecting flash areas (with plenty of overhang), and critical conductors breaking those layers in a few places so that if the metal protection is eroded away, the critical conductors are lost, also. Light-sensitive areas that trigger a flash erase routine if a decapped chip is exposed to light while running. Chemical fuses triggered by decapping chemicals.
I don't know for sure, but it's likely that many in the FBI take an oath to protect the Constitution.. That includes the Bill of Rights, which expresses a large part of our freedoms.
Did you hammer out danger?
Did you hammer out a warning?
Did you hammer out love between your brothers and your sisters all over this land?
(Apologies to Lee Hayes & Pete Seeger.)
But what if the thing we all voted for was for age limits on our senators, or reasonable term limits?
Term limits is a great idea. Corruption is a monotonic function of time in office.
There is already an age limit for U.S. Senators: the minimum age is 30, an attempt to get some maturity, wisdom, and stability of character.... Oh, you mean a maximum age? While it's a good idea to remove people who have lost their mental abilities, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? No offense, not you. Not anybody.
A "stubborn old coot" is a man sure in his principles, as opposed to an inexperienced young fool who'll fall victim to logical fallacies or a few dollars.
What if we decided that we need to put measures in place to cut the influence of corporations over our politicians.
I can't see any way of doing that short of keeping our presidents and governors and judges and legislators is prison, naked, and under audio-video surveillance every second of their term of office. Even at that, I'm sure anyone who tries can figure a way to get bribes through. The problem is not solvable, and the only dependable way to reduce the magnitude of corruption is to reduce the magnitude of government. Nobody is going to try to spend 100 million in bribes to swing a 50 billion dollar deal, when there aren't any deals bigger than 1 billion being made.
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How the government handles things makes a big difference. When I was last in Manhattan, about 3 years ago, I noticed that it smelled different than it had for the preceding 50 years. I finally figured out that the smell of urine was gone. That was the result of government policy.
The new far left mayor of New York City has pushed through legislation to make it legal to defecate in public in NYC. Expect the old odors to return.
You shouldn't jail us for killing our parents! We're orphans!"
Does the word "oxymoron" mean anything to you?
When Boeing tried to expand to "right to work" states, unions stuck and threatened to shut down Boeing permanently. Boeing caved. Without left-wing government support of union thuggery, this would not be possible.
Please quote the exact clause(s) that create that obligation. My understanding is that the legislature and the Supreme Court have limited the president's discretion, not eliminated it - otherwise the wall along the Mexican border (already funded) would have been built.
The President takes an oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." That would include preventing the spending of money for unConstitutional purposes.
Written English sentence structure is a human invention, subject to improvement. The improvement of putting other punctuation inside or outside of quotes depending upon where it makes logical sense is a recent development, used mostly by technical people with a strong sense of hierarchy. It reduces ambiguity. It should be embraced.
And you believe him.
The use of fossil fuel brings far more benefit to the life of the very poor than the very rich. For the poor, it's the difference between life and death.
Having fun calling people morons? You're promoting death.
Due to traction limitations of steel-on-steel, locomotives are heavy by design and the diesel-electric weight is not a disadvantage. The same does not apply to airplanes.
Use hydrocarbons for takeoff and landing, and battery power when cruising. This will provide many jobs - for morticians.
OK, what are the apps that "ordinary people" use? Internet browser, for facebook & news & research & shopping & email, done. Photo sorting and editing, done. Video playing and download, done. Office tools, done, and that's already edging out of the "ordinary people" category..
Next in widespread use is gaming, where Linux is weak but not absent.
What's missing is some organization to take the cost advantage of Linux and make it into a successful computer brand.
"Apple-like simple" is the job of a hardware manufacturer that tweaks a good Linux distribution to make it shiny and idiot-resistant.
Some time well before 2000 the techniques of photo-realism and trompe l'oeil were perfected, so one of the primary ways to judge advances in paintings became obsolete. 20th-century artists with recognizable names - Andy Warhol, Frank Frazetta, Peter Max, M. C. Escher among many others - are known by distinctive styles and visions. Styles are not as widely accepted as "great" compared to technical excellence, so a smaller portion of experts will recognize a given modern artist as a genius.
That this episode of the FBI vs Apple has come to public attention proves that the FBI is grossly incompetent. When the public (and therefor terrorists) no longer believes that phone information is absolutely safe, other means of communication will be used: government loses a powerful tool against its enemies. This is a hideous strategic blunder.
Is there really any advantage over 16 bit integer, which would be faster and less complex?
If you have a steady supply of electricity, the refrigerator-sized machine needed to supply pills is called a "refrigerator". If you don't have a steady supply of electricity, a complex gadget like this will be worthless in a disaster.
And nobody's called him Master Bates yet.
Leftists have not been a minority of professors for at least 45 years.
When you maliciously poke someone in the eye with a sharp stick, you have no valid complaint if he pulls out a .44 magnum and blows your arm off.
Does it run Linux?
Nice citation, thanks.
Once a designer is given the requirement that his chip be resistant to cracking by decapping, there are a lot of tricks he can play to make the cracker's job very difficult. Things like replacing metal conductors with doped silicon to hide their existence, or adding intrusion-detection flash cells that disable memory reads when UV is used to erase memory-protection flash cells. Things like 2 layers of metal protecting flash areas (with plenty of overhang), and critical conductors breaking those layers in a few places so that if the metal protection is eroded away, the critical conductors are lost, also. Light-sensitive areas that trigger a flash erase routine if a decapped chip is exposed to light while running. Chemical fuses triggered by decapping chemicals.
I don't know for sure, but it's likely that many in the FBI take an oath to protect the Constitution.. That includes the Bill of Rights, which expresses a large part of our freedoms.
Did you hammer out danger?
Did you hammer out a warning?
Did you hammer out love between your brothers and your sisters all over this land?
(Apologies to Lee Hayes & Pete Seeger.)
Not a chance.
Term limits is a great idea. Corruption is a monotonic function of time in office. ... Oh, you mean a maximum age? While it's a good idea to remove people who have lost their mental abilities, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? No offense, not you. Not anybody.
There is already an age limit for U.S. Senators: the minimum age is 30, an attempt to get some maturity, wisdom, and stability of character.
A "stubborn old coot" is a man sure in his principles, as opposed to an inexperienced young fool who'll fall victim to logical fallacies or a few dollars.
I can't see any way of doing that short of keeping our presidents and governors and judges and legislators is prison, naked, and under audio-video surveillance every second of their term of office. Even at that, I'm sure anyone who tries can figure a way to get bribes through. The problem is not solvable, and the only dependable way to reduce the magnitude of corruption is to reduce the magnitude of government. Nobody is going to try to spend 100 million in bribes to swing a 50 billion dollar deal, when there aren't any deals bigger than 1 billion being made.
"Foxfire", like the Angelina Jolie movie.