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A not bad alternative view on the subject.
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
Catherine Nixey
I always think of the example of supermarket cashiers. Formerly a fairly skilled job but now merely providing cheap meat-robot manipulators for a scanner. The person is still there but has a job concentrated down to the few things a person does better, and those things aren't always the fun things.
You know, that's a good question given the threat exposure in a browser.
Maybe the right answer is a mixture. Use a dedicated Chromebook in guest mode for financial transactions/bill paying/banking (high security, low privacy from Google) and something akin to a text-based browser on an open source OS for everything else.
Is there something like Lynx but with a bit of formatting + still images? I can see going that route simply because the sheer size (in LOC) of a modern browser is so great that I question it's trustability.
Probably not at all, although it's hard to think/talk in a general fashion about such large systems.
The Axis Powers strike me as fighting a more reasonable war than (for instance) their WWI aggressor predecessors if you view it as simply a grab for land and resources. It's a thing that a Khanate or a Roman governor would understand and appreciate. I'd say that the actions of the Germans and Japanese would make perfect sense to the ruling class of most pre-modern states.
It's hard work to avoid Historian's Fallacy.
. Underestimation of the cost of an early 20th C. war. Some glorious charges, you win, get home in time for dinner.
. A game theory problem in that once you start mobilizing you can't stop. Not starting the war is more dangerous than simply drawing down.
. The simple fun (for leadership) and profits in a war. Pushing pieces around a map is an enjoyable endeavor.
. Interlocking treaties with single points of failure.
etc.
The iHeinz can then send a notification to the manufacturer who then passes it to the Ketchup Police.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYONGDA188S
WWII being an outlier of course. I'd like to have the numbers for the 19th C.
There was a time when a state/county/municipality could largely ignore central government diktat. With centralization there'll be a tendency for a single dominant group to get into everyone's business more and more. This can happen via statute, spending, or even lack of law enforcement in desired behaviors.
..and of course it tends to split urban vs. rural, Anglosphere vs. everyone else. The wish or need for central control varies quite a lot between the groups.
I'd say that the Left is the status quo in the West at this point.
We probably need new terms for everybody.
It's probably better to view the 'government' as a coalition of self-interested groups. It's never really monolithic.
In a sense I'd say that they are now a branch of government.
I can't remember people being denied service for their political views until just recently.
Another odd thing is that a company would give a rip about their employees political views.
These are strange times.
I suppose that a problem with C++ (and the more feature-filled source control systems) is that it's dangerous to mix different levels of programmer sophistication in a team. The people are reflected in the code particularly as the obfuscation increases.
When I was a kid the only businesses I can remember being non-locally owned were a Safeway and branches of two state-wide banks. This is in a town of 20k or so (at the time). There were small local manufacturing firms, 100% of restaurants were local (no chains), nearly all grocery stores were family owned, you could still make a living as a rancher.
Obviously there were franchises (gas stations, a small Sears store mostly for catalog ordering) but not very many.
The difference from modern times is remarkable.
Like the 80386SX? 80376?
You're making me feel old. I used to sort bottles as a kid.
Soft drinks are just another example of gigantism in corporate life, economy of scale uber alles. There was a time when practically every small town had one or more bottling plants, the owners were pillars of the community sponsoring softball teams and the like. Delivery trucks typically had shelving rather than bays.
Following that there was a huge spate of consolidation. Small distributors/bottlers had their franchises taken away, canning became owned by the mothership and absolutely huge. The more centralized the more of a pain it becomes to sort/return/clean bottles.
I suppose it's like the history of car dealerships as they become fewer and larger. For that matter, a significant (most?) percentage of the US used to be self-employed instead of wage slaves.
I do remember seeing a website that attempted to connect SW engineers willing to volunteer with scientists but I think that effort died out. Not a bad idea.
Also consider that now the system has perfect memory. Moving to another county or state, waiting a few years, it doesn't matter.
I agree, but also they are pretty well trained in scripts for extracting confessions/assent for searches/etc. People simply don't know the law and there's always the hope you'll catch a break.
If Live PD were still on, you'd notice how often the same phrases are used throughout the US. It all sounds like a lawyer wrote scripts for traffic stops and that those training materials were used nationwide. 'honesty goes with me a long way' 'you are being detained you are not under arrest' or whatever.
With all the talk about 'controlling our bodies' in terms of abortion, and I can see both sides of that one, your own life is the one thing you really own. To have that control taken away is the worst kind of insult by the state.
A not unreasonable statement. Companies tend to be too lazy to bring in bright high school students and run a proper training systems, but you can certainly push for certification programs without degrees like the California Bar Exam.
Given the amount of OJT (self-taught) I did at first plus the real lack of value of college, I'd have to say that in my case the degrees and time spent were of no value.
In spite of the tendency for part of the US electorate to wish to federalize all government functions, there's still a lot of difference between US states.
That seems to work out pretty well. It isn't like California is identical to Arizona, at least currently.