Comments by "David Goodnow" (@davidgoodnow269) on "The Lunduke Journal"
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Yes. Quite emphatically, yes, that's the court interpretation of the existing laws, regulations, and Executive Orders. Of course, the U.S. government doesn't always obey its own laws and courts . . . example, LASER was created by an East German dentist for the purpose of performing surgery. The West used his patents to create the optical CD, and the U.S. government indemnified Sony Corporation of Japan creating the CD and manufacturing CD players, as well as the many military uses of lasers that the U.S. made.
After the reunification of the Germanies, that dentist sued and eventually won, but I don't think he was ever paid.
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@gizmo4816 Oh, there have been issues!
Remember when Linux was taking huge inroads into banking (because banks are where the money's at, and devs need a paycheck), and then the Snowden revelations had banks hiring triple teams of coders examine every line of code they were using, independently, cross-checking each other? And the N.S.A. got busted suborning hundreds of those coders the banks hired? None of the code the banks independently changed got pushed back out, not one line revealed, we just know that various coders were employed by various banks, around the world, for periods ranging from days or weeks (presumably busted as suborned, and fired) to more than a year.
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@carisi2k11 The solution is seldom hiding, the solution that usually works but takes effort and cooperation is proper security.
If he had a plainclothes cop as close escort and a halo of uniformed cops performing the security function they used to at SXSW, that is what is called "Risk Mitigation." If the threat is real, close, and unavoidable, the kind of armor clothing you see in John Wick has existed for decades now. It's made from artificial spider silk; pricy, but comfortable, stylish, and effective, it's been commercially available since 1992 for tailoring. I forget the name of the manufacturer, but I have known two people who had clothes made from it and have seen the effectiveness first-hand.
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Those other tariffs have been set for years, or else you just aren't noticing that they do change because it's things that don't directly affect you, both.
These are new tariffs, and many seem declared as a point of negotiation. Therefore, volatility is natural.
I expect that most won't exist in a year.
Remember that there is almost nothing manufactured in China that isn't manufactured in Japan or Taiwan or even in a closed plant (RAM, ICs, resistors and diodes and capacitors) in the U.S. of A.
Dell used to build laptops in the U.S. of A.
Apple used to build all of its computers in the U.S. of M. [Mexico -- the other United States].
Dell quit, because China offered to finance the construction of assembly plants at a guaranteed low wage and low interest and the government of China owns the land and the factories, so all Dell had to pay is wages and the interest, ever. China said it would recoup its costs in taxation of wages, and tariffs on equipment and ongoing imported components (made in Taiwan).
Apple quit because the housewives it contracted to do piecework at home were getting sick, just as its American employees had, before those jobs were moved to Mexico. Apple has been killing its employees for fourty years.
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Bingo.
The real questions, because this has come about quite widely and rapidly, is, "Who is behind this? What is the outcome they seek?" It appears that the answer to the latter is, widespread immobilizaton, degradation of product, and destruction of Open Source projects. Which leaves, what coordinating entity?
Does implementation of A.I. coding at Google, Apple, IBM, Cannonical, Red Hat, offer a hint?
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@RanCham727 But you specifically pointed to bread. My family were farmers. What he wrote about subsidies is true, but didn't used to be. Throughout the Cold War, governments bought excess crops -- contracting the plantings to insure there would be a surplus. The grain was stored in government granaries -- which is why so many grain silos are abandoned now -- for three years. Grain looses its nutritional value over time, even if well-stored, unless it's canned air-tight and preferably nitrogen-sealed, so that surplus left over from filling out demand in years of storm or draught, was shipped off as U.S. A.I.D.; and if they had to dig deeper than the rollover year's harvest, they could.
But since the end of the Cold War, farmers are paid to keep their lands unproductive. I have known farms that have sat barren for 7-10 years or more! (It's been a while since I passed that way.) Often, a family farm is bought by an agribusiness and, if possible, left fallow for years. Sometimes this is getting that government money that the deceased farmer was getting -- the government likes to keep all their paperwork unchanged -- and other times it's a tax write-off as "conservation."
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@belstar1128 It was made by Indians, but for the past several years a lot of the devs are in South America, and quite a few in Central America. I don't know how many are North American or European, but English, French, and Spanish are the languages of the full version. I think English is because it is a major unifying language, still, in India -- India has six major regional languages, hundreds of dialects, and requires every student to learn four of its six major languages -- and French seems to be because it is such a major trade language, while Spanish is both a major trade language and the language common in Central and South America, the Philippine Islands and Pacific; there are many languages that Endless OS comes in, but those three are the ones that have a "full version" available.
I'll warn you that Endless definitely fits the typical Linux distribution cycle: x.x.0 always have something significant broken, x.x.1 works admirablely, x.x.2 fix little glitches and add features, and x.x.3 breaks stuff, driving the creation of a new x.x.0!
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Oh, absolutely, this writing has been on the wall for years.
But something interesting: I was watching a video here about the Henkel aircraft during WW II; the owner didn't want to get with the government's way of doing things, so the government took his company away and gave it to "shopkeepers" to run—and the wording used was exactly, word-for-word, what the W.E.F. uses for "stakeholder capitalism"!
I am since suspecting that the pressures are to drive populations into a pendulum-swing reaction towards that strain of National Socialism, just as in the 1930s! Everyone forgets that Mustache Man said that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had captured the spirit and intention of his own party better in one of that President's writings, than he ever had, himself! It's very easy to go down a road, thinking it leads one way, and end up at a very different place.
Havier Millie (spelling) dropped some interesting docs the other day.
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This fits with the destruction of The Internet Archive being an inside job, across the board . . . no pun necessarily intended.
Copying books that are still in copyright and publishing the e-book versions was unwise.
But then lockdowns, and lots of stupid behaviors, with people jamming to, "Breaking the Law, breaking the law, duh dun nun nun na, na na na," and someone at TIA . . . decided to flagragntly violate the cause for winning the prior cases brought against The Internet Archive by publishers!
Now, with this mess, who is going to donate to The Internet Archive to bail them out of their troubles?
This is all about destruction of The Internet Archive because it was the Internet Archive! There is no replacement!
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Price is price. Retailers have price flexibility, but manufacturers don't. When inflation drives up retail prices, look at the producer price index for the items that go into each product.
Generally, people live at or just beyond their means. That means, if price of something goes up, they either buy it on credit expecting their situation to improve (or return the item, if they can't make payments), or, they buy what they can afford instead. In 2009, the ramen section of the aisle in Walmart was massively expanded, and was restocked two or three times a day. The steak section was barely stocked, and never sold anything until it was marked down for clearance.
Yet the slaughterhouses were working extra shifts putting steaks into commercial freezers. Two to three years of the U.S.'s total export volume sat in freezers, until it could be sold and at a MASSIVE profit!
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@cianmoriarty7345 Plus, strategic sources -- minimum five of those -- and those are reduplicated civilian + military, again, with slightly different components; usually, these don't feed separate internal and external agencies. Instead, these strategic sources feed separate internal and external agencies, on the civvie side -- and often, separate internal and external civilian agencies are reduplicated for the separate military and civilian strategic resource feeds!
Yes, even the smallest countries do this, even if the "agency" (defined as, "One who has agency to act.") is one-to-three people!
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