I wonder how this mentality carried forward into modern asset forfeiture concepts (hey, we don't destroy those cars, we get to sell them and make cha-ching!)
I think the superstitions are still there, but hidden in a more "utilitarian" guise.
Ha, and of course wiki makes a brief note about this:
In the United States
That's funny because I find VCV much "easier" but perhaps it's because I'm not composing so much as noodling and texture-spelunking.
I do like bespoke and think its great, but it feels a bit janky to me (though it's been like a year since I tried).
It's fun to think about all the various ways people can implement such tools. I'd recommend bespoke for those who want a bit of a different modular system than just a skeuomorphic approach that copies Eurorack design.
I am sure this is referring to the userspace contribs, not the kernel itself, since the userspace stuff is really what makes the distro a distro (unless it's running custom kernels, which it would have to use a backport from pre-AI code, or something)...
That said if they extended to kernel-space, it seems like NetBSD would be the other *nix like alternative (Google's AI summary says they're the only BSD to take a strict no-ai stance).
I hate that it seems the only authors I can really dig into fiction-wise is PKD and Douglas Adams. Something about their fast paced style, loose/weird tech, psychedelic, not too serious (well PKD still has some definite seriousness; but not expressed in a serious way).
I think this might be an indicator of adhd-ness. That these things grab me instantly because either I know something (usually) interesting is coming. The only PKD I've read that I've actively disliked was Timothy Archer which is comparatively tame, and nothing really comes of it compared to VALIS or Three Stigmata or Divine Invasion for example.
I've had other authors recommended based on this, but none of them really grip me the way they do. :( Maybe I just need to stick with it, like the author says - it eventually gets good. It's really hard these days as my attention span is worse than I was when I was even in my 20s (all those years ago).
There should be a conflict resolution to gracefully degrade the third level to 2nd level when there is no competing name on the second level.
But I didn't think about the 1st level competitors. There'd still need a mechanism to resolve that...
1. First come first serve? (e.g. whoever registered a y.name first, whether x is bob or sue is determined by the earliest registrant on record)
2. Lottery/random selection?
3. Bidding war?
I think the problem is 2nd level domains who have the same name will be a problem when they find out all these other 3rd level are now expiring and can run a route to spoof? Likely wouldn't happen, but with the fuckery in the DNS that can happen... This is such a rash and weird decision to push through so quickly just because engineers find it "easier" while ignoring the implications of the move, seemingly when it comes to larger scale security.
I assume there would have to be some method to prevent routing of third level domains to subdomains of two-levels... (or is that just me being a fool yet again, assuming we have competent administration of our systems).
New Zealand did this when they introduced/allowed .nz registrations[1]. If you had a domain under .co.nz, .net.nz, etc, you were reserved the right to register the same name under the new TLD. If two different registrants shared the same name, a conflict resolution was put in place to adjudicate who would be allowed to register the .nz equivalent of their domain.
I had/have a .net.nz and someone else owned the .co.nz. I went through the conflict resolution process and ended up being able to register the .nz.
Not sure if or how other registrars manage this sort of thing, but I thought the way NZ's Domain Name Commission handled things was pretty fair and transparent.
Update report: they are still categorically refusing, even for third-level customer who are alone (and have always been for 20 years) on the second-level they use. It makes no sense.
fraser.name does not seem to be currently registered, so it seems they could automatically give him that name, and hence solve the problem entirely.
But I wonder if there might be some competing names on the third level? Like, he's neil.fraser.name, but what if there's also bob.fraser.name and they'd both very much like to keep their domains?
I think the point is that currently if anyone.fraser.name is registered, then fraser.name cannot be registered.
The change that Verisign is making is to deregister all the *.fraser.name domain registrations, which will then free up fraser.name for registration.
So it becomes a race to register fraser.name and the winner gets to recreate all the *.fraser.name subdomains they want, for whatever purpose they want.
I know, but what I mean is, if he's the only one that even owns anything at .fraser.name now, then it'd be easy to just automatically give him all of .fraser.name when that happens, and then he can recreate his subdomains without worrying about someone else snagging it first. But that doesn't work if someone else owns somethingelse.fraser.name, because you can't give it to both of them.
Probably not, but my closest bet would fall to Hanlon's razor:
I was curious if this was continued evidence of poor appropriations and upkeep or what... I do see "U.S. military commissary refrigeration maintenance, equipment replacement, and physical infrastructure are funded through the 5% commissary surcharge paid by customers at checkout rather than direct congressional appropriations."
So, perhaps the first place would be to follow the money - are these being repaired at the proper rate? Is this repair outsourced to third party vendors? (my guess). Is this gonna end up being the McDonald's Ice Cream machine all over again?
Really though, Hanlon's would be much easier to believe this is yet further ineptitude by those who run things (I am not going to claim malfeasance/malevolence, except a general sense of such across the board by this admin).
Since I'm not on the inside, anything I have to say would be speculative, just like the above, or the author themselves (I have no idea who it is, and perhaps they have a better beat on the ground with regards to this), but it just falls in line with "we're running out of missiles" and "sailors attempting to kill themselves".
We're so insistent on being #1, we can't admit we're in a society that is falling apart (and again, it may be the case that this IS a hack, but if I were to place my bets...)
Ineptitude, lowest cost players, etc "efficiency" indeed. You get what you pay for, and I guess 5% don't pay for a whole hell of a lot these days.
What are the odds that lack of maintenance would cause 6% of bases to fail and all units at each base to fail in the same way - by switching to defrost at 2am?
I don't know how much I can trust you on Zuse if you can't get basic facts about de Beauvoir right:
Simone de Beauvoir did not have a "future is female" plan, as the modern slogan "The Future is Female" originated decades after her major works and stems from lesbian-separatist contexts in the 1970s.
"She is globally famous for writing in The Second Sex (1949) that "[o]ne is not born, but rather becomes, a woman," which established that gender is a social construct rather than a fixed biological destiny." (I hazard this is really what you're butthurt about).
"Rather than advocating for female supremacy or a matriarchal "female future," Beauvoir's existentialist framework sought human liberation and radical reciprocity between sexes, arguing that both men and women need to transcend oppressive societal myths of the "Other".
The phrase "The Future is Female" was coined by Liza Cowan in 1975 at a feminist bookstore (A Woman's Place) in Washington, D.C., and later popularized as a modern pop-culture T-shirt slogan in the 2010s, completely separate from Beauvoir's 20th-century existentialism."
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Trying to find info on a "90% male reduction plan" it looks like what you are referring to is:
The idea of reducing the male population by 90% (leaving a ratio of 10% men to 90% women) comes from the radical American feminist author and activist Sally Miller Gearhart. In her 1982 essay titled "The Future – If There Is One – Is Female,"
Gearhart argued that to achieve global peace and end patriarchal violence, the human sex ratio should be shifted over time. She explicitly clarified that this should not be achieved via violence or culling, but rather through future reproductive technologies and selective breeding
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Please don't conflate Simone's pluralistic, humanistic, liberating form of feminism with 1970s style "Lesgbian" RadFem ideology.
Please at least get your actors straight when you make claims like this, it almost sounds like I'd be making claims like: (bot) throw234259 wants to genocide every human and especially men.
It's not even remotely true. And it stains your name, because it's easier to just take what you heard without reflecting or retaining (even if google is a search away).
Eugenics is alive in the US Government right now. "Don't get injections, only the strong survive! Drink raw milk, don't you dare have government test it... Swim in Sludge (literal things RFK Jr advises/does)" The Kennedy's were literally eugenicist and threw his aunt in an institution and lobotomized/sterilized her.
If you want a "widely supported today" why didn't you take one of the chief proponents of such ideology as your example? One who hasn't been dead in ages? One who holds power, and is joined in a union with SecDef Pete Hegseth who pushes some "ubermensch" (I'm stwong!) Might-Makes-Right/Fittest-Survives ideology that closely ties in with this ideology.
I've just started getting into emacs and am almost done with what I think is my final config (just adding vertico, consult and marginalia, haven't added them all, but got vertico and consult working in a mostly default state, still need to tweak a bit).
Then I am going to try to learn more of the navigation keys (I got some of the basics (mostly)) but still need more experience beyond the basics. I am able to get my odin/raylib code to compile with C-c C-c. I even hand compiled 30.1 from github to update from Debians older defaults. The only problem I ran into was forgetting how I got it so when I launched the client it didn't duplicate the icon on my kde taskbar/panel. Uninstalling the old setup must have removed my copy of the start up rules/desktop window name. But got that settled after a bit of searching.
I am trying my hardest not to use EVIL, but it's so tempting, because I've gotten used to modal. But I want to use the full power as mostly established with the key combos.
I'm not sure how much of these features will matter to me as I'm not sure I've used much of the full system. Anything that makes it faster is nice. So far it's been smooth, but I do wonder if running the server (via sysvinit in mx) does cause some lag, as I've felt the system have little hiccups (not when using emacs actively, the client not even open. I did try to adjust the GC settings I found as a tip to reduce lag and do more GC when not heavily used).
Finally does anyone know where to get a 'Meta' 1.25u mechanical keycap???
Even "spacecadet" themed caps I've seen still use "Alt" as the title. Anybody have thoughts on like colemak-dh vs qwerty or other layouts. I think it was protesilaus saying he liked chocofi with colemak-dh (and very insistent that it was "THE" way) so I'm curious if anyone had experience with that (or maybe it was another emacs user).
I can't say it has any particular bearing on the usage of emacs, but within the last year or so I started using a "ortholinear" keyboard (an ergodox-ez) and found that qwerty was uncomfortable on that with how lousy my typing form is. I tried a couple different layouts and landed on something called "middlemak"[1]. Of all the ones I tried, it really felt like the one with the least overall finger travel and awkward things to type in my day to day software development work (though there are still some odd letter combinations courtesy of english borrowing from everyone), and it's not a massive change from qwerty so a lot of muscle memory actually could carry over. Workman and Colemak both had some awkward motions or finger strains that just didn't work for me.
That's been both a good and a bad in that on the one hand, I didn't have to relearn every key, but on the other, especially because I swap between middlemak on the external keyboard and qwerty on the built-ins I'm sometimes mistyping because the qwerty key is one key over from where the middlemak version is. But at least for how my brain works, having that familiarity made sticking with the learning curve a lot easier.
I also can't speak for how it feels on a "normal" staggered keyboard since I only use it on the ergodox but I don't have a reason to think it would feel worse. If it helps, this is the keymap I use on the ergodox[2].
I think the superstitions are still there, but hidden in a more "utilitarian" guise.
Ha, and of course wiki makes a brief note about this: In the United States
"In American law, the deodand has been cited as a source for the modern civil forfeiture doctrine.[6][9]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deodand#In_the_United_States
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