MystikIncarnate

Is it his birthday?

I would put money on this.

Business owners and business leaders are all about efficiency, unless it inhibits their ability to keep you under their boot.

The speaker owns a company.

IMO, that's easily one of the best ways to determine if someone is controlling.

Accurate.

Fact is, they'll basically steal the reels back, which they forfeited ownership of when they threw them in the trash, throw the perpetrators in jail, remaster the episodes, and then push those episodes out in a box set so they can make a few dollars, while the people who preserved it, get nothing.

IMO, they should find a way to digitize and distribute them online to everyone. Fuck the BBC if this is how they treat people.

I just want to say that my home network is entirely ethernet, and I have a few fiber connections in there that are also ethernet.

The vast majority of the ethernet connections out there are done over category (5/5e/6/6a) cable, at least when it comes to end users, but that's not the only thing that can transmit ethernet.

802.11 is extremely similar to ethernet, though, very notably, it is not ethernet. It is ethernet compatible, and mostly just adds things like encryption and source and endpoint radio identifiers... It more adds to ethernet than it changes anything. Bring so similar, the end to end ethernet connection is almost entirely unchanged when there is a wireless link in the chain...

It is, of course, different, as it has some different methods for handling issues, and other things, but ethernet is in there.

Fact is, ethernet is not your category cable, nor your 8p8c "rj45" cable connectors.

There are so many protocols and standards that work together to make networks function that many have not observed outside of the practical application of LAN networks. Thus all the terms get conflated together because the vast majority have not observed these things used in any other context.

Category cable is just a standard for twisted pair wiring. "Rj45" is actually a very specific connector and signaling that has nothing to do with LAN networks. Most of the wiring standards used are born from other purposes, and few know the history behind it.

Oh well. It's not worth getting upset about it.

Long ping times but really decent throughput with running your data over avian carrier.

Eh, it's both. Ethernet is layer 2. It is your MAC address, more or less. There's some functionality to it beyond simple hardware addressing, but it provides a scaffold for other, higher layer protocols to operate on top of.

So ethernet, in and of itself is a protocol, and it also provides a framework for other protocols like IP.

That might be difficult.

Linux was made to run GNU software, and is borderline part of GNU. GNU, likewise, is made open, much like the Linux kernel, so it can run on anything.

I don't know of any software designed for the Linux kernel that doesn't also expect GNU.

Look, all I'm saying is that the two are very strongly bonded, like hydrogen and oxygen in a molecule of water. It would take a lot of energy to separate them. Adding to them is pretty trivial, there's a lot of things that are water soluble by default, but without specific conditions and a lot of energy, they won't seperate easily.

Honestly, I think the only OS I know of that's the closest to being Linux but not GNU, is Android.

I live in a country with Universal healthcare coverage (Canada) and we pay for our healthcare with income taxes and goods and services tax; so I fail to see why this should matter.

The key difference is a single payer system. We the people (represented by the government) can basically set the prices of our own healthcare procedures to a figure that is appropriate for how much each person helping to perform the procedure costs for their time and effort in the process, the costs of running the equipment, and some for the wear/tear/maintenance on that equipment. Whatever is left over goes towards replacing the machine at its end of life.

In the USA, hospitals are run as for-profit businesses, so the extra cost (usually 100% or more profit per procedure, or whatever they can get away with charging) is added on for the profit margin of the hospital, and the insurance companies and whatnot is also run as for-profit, jacking up prices even more.

It's not that citizens of the US are paying for these procedures themselves that makes it expensive; Everyone pays for medical in some way, shape or form, just the USA seems to be okay with extorting its own citizens for profit in the process of helping them. It's a toxic system that causes people to be forced into extreme poverty when they're too poor to pay for insurance; which is insane to me, since you're effectively beating the poors until they're homeless and destitute then blaming them for their own homelessness and shunning them for being homeless when all they wanted to do was not be sick/injured.

The measure of a society is how it treats its weakest members.

I don't know why developers are making more than the president of the company here, but that's nice to see.

Usually the person setting the wages is setting their own wage higher than the rest.

It's also wild to me that some developers are making nearly half a million a year. I can't even crack 100k in my local currency (about $75k/yr USD) and my job is to run the infrastructure. If I don't do my job, the company goes offline and all that fancy programming amounts for nothing.

The RIAA drove me to piracy in the early days.

Then stuff like Google Play music came along and I stopped because I can actually pay for basically any song I want to listen to, all at my fingertips and that is still true. It makes me happy to support the artists and their music though I know they don't get very much of the cut.

The MPAA was much of the same story.

Then Netflix happened and I was all set for the same thing to happen, but it didn't. Now streaming is almost as fractured as cable TV packages, and I went right back to piracy.

Screw it. I don't feel bad about it because they haven't shown any regard for the people they continually exploit, namely their customers. They don't give any shits if I financially sink while trying to afford to enjoy the things that they make, so I won't give any shits about their financial situation while I enjoy it anyways. Fuck them.

Just commenting on checks and balances, there generally aren't any. It's a constitutional right to have guns in the USA, so most laws that would enforce any kind of restrictions on ownership or access to firearms, are usually deemed unconstitutional and thrown out.

There are entire groups actively working to ensure everyone has fair and unrestricted access to guns, most notably the NRA. Those groups are unapologetic about what they do and they've been very successful in maintaining the status quo for gun access.

IMO as long as the right to bear arms stays enshrined in the US Constitution, this will not change.

I'm not an American and I'm very thankful for that because of things like this, however, my life is very affected by what happens there. As a result, I'm pretty well versed on their country. At times, I know the US laws better than my own countries laws.