syshum

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by syshum 4y ago
Well 2 things. First I stated smallest practical, and with that it would depend on the power we are talking about, so the smallest practical for national defense would be the federal government, the smallest practical for professional lice
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by syshum 4y ago
I am the person that made the claim, I am pretty sure I understand what I am trying to talk about. This seems to a terminology / definitional problem we have, something I am trying to get beyond because like I said from the beginning
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by syshum 4y ago
>> Disgusting. Wow, opposing mob rule is "Disgusting." now >real democracy That is why I oppose "real democracy", I prefer a Constitutional Republic with powers widely distributed in a federalist model. >if
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by syshum 4y ago
Doesnt the EU pass unfunded liabilities back onto the member states? Meaning the EU will pass a law or regulation or program that the member states then have to fund with domestic taxes? Generally speaking for the federal government, if the
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by syshum 4y ago
>>US states cannot just ignore federal law They absolutely can and do. State government are under no compulsion to enforce federal law, nor do they have aid federal law enforcement. Sure the FBI can still arrest you but as a practica
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by syshum 4y ago
In mixed enviroments being able to use Powershell on both Linux and Windows allows for people to only have to learn one scripting environment, and allow you to share functions, modules, and tooling between the systems. that alone is a big W
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by syshum 4y ago
That depends on the context, I have a feeling we differ widely on what we view as the "crazy people" that are taking over given the natural demographics of HN and that fact that I am generally politically unaligned with most peop
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by syshum 4y ago
I have never had one actually require it, often the installers will claim that but back in the day I would just say "sure here is my linux machine have fun installing your windows software on it" and magically they did not need t
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by syshum 4y ago
Bitwarden Family / Pro / Enterprise also has the ability to Setup TOTP based MFA which is then synced to other devices I use both Authy and Bitwarden
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by syshum 4y ago
>Is there anything else I need to do? Buy a custom domain, and use that for your important email this way you can never be locked out of your email....
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by syshum 4y ago
I want politics and taxation to be more local in the smallest division practical, with extreme limits being placed on the power and scope of larger political organizations. In short I fully support US Style Federalism and oppose the move t
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by syshum 4y ago
>>We have unions for a particular company for example, here is the Wikipedia link for the Nationwide Union The question I would then have is do the employee of Nationwide have to join the Nationwide Union or could they if they wanted
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by syshum 4y ago
That is a misinterpretation of that ruling, which applies to non-union members being forced to pay dues Union Shops, where by in Non-Right to work States the union negotiates with the Employer (private not public) that all employees of the
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by syshum 4y ago
That is a technically in terms only. So apologies for using "closed" [1] instead of "union"[1] shop which are functionally the same thing, and Union Shops still very much exist which is clear from my description of what
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by syshum 4y ago
The big difference (and please correct me if I get UK info wrong, I am not an expert in UK Labor, I am versed in US Labor) that in the UK you have sector unions, not enterprise unions. A company may have employee's working under sever
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by syshum 4y ago
My feelings are bit of a mix bag, some of the complaints I would agree, but some of them seem to be either employee or more likely media exaggeration. I have no respect or trust of "main stream" media so the reporting on the issu
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by syshum 4y ago
"letting it happen" could be many contexts as well, letting is happen could mean that the managers were soo terrible at their jobs that they allowed issues to fester to the point where the employees were disgruntles enough to vot
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by syshum 4y ago
Elon should buy it and take it Private ;)
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by syshum 4y ago
This is one of the ongoing problems with discussion about "unions" "Unions" in the US are very very very very very different legally than "unions" in EU and other nations, personally i think they are so differe
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by syshum 4y ago
ATT, the company with the Death Star as their logo, is hostile to their customer base? Say it is not so... ATT is the worst company, even worse than comcast. Doing something to just be hostile to their customer base is in their DNA, th
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by syshum 4y ago
Both of these links are the same source... May want to try diversification in you sourcing but I suspect you are in an ideological echo chamber so... They fail because they treat military spending incorrectly. Military is deploy based on t
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by syshum 4y ago
The single years old partsian study that is the basis for the "takes in more takes than they pay out" is intellectually defieciant on many levels and ignores all kinds of inconvenient truths Anyone uses that as a justification for
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by syshum 4y ago
See may other comments as I have already addressed this, but it does not follow that "running it like a business" precludes serving rural America. it is moronic to claim other wise. People that continue to make this claim clearly
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by syshum 4y ago
Believing that the Republicans are anarchists is just laughable. I would like it if they were, I prefer a much smaller government than what the Republicans desire.
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by syshum 4y ago
It does not. the ACLU policy shift can be best described as a shift from the defense of individual rights to defense of group or collective rights. I am ardent supporter of individual rights. This is largely also the difference between the
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by syshum 4y ago
The ACLU is the AMERICAN civil liberties union. So talking about them in an US context is the proper context
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by syshum 4y ago
That is a stretch. You comment has nothing to do with copyright. If you want to talk net neutrality summit something to discuss that. This thread should be about the harms of copyright
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by syshum 4y ago
>>are subsidized by the government (very few toll roads exist in the US, it's mostly combination State and Federal funding which builds highways.) Toll Roads is not the only User Fees applied to fund roads. Other Fees include bu
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by syshum 4y ago
running it has a business does not preclude requirements placed upon it by government. All businesses have to comply with government regulations, and a regulation that requires USPS to service rural routes would not preclude running the or
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by syshum 4y ago
I am normally not a big fan of government as a private business.. However USPS and Amtrek NEED to be run more like a business. The fact they have not been for decades is part of the problem with the services. If we are talking something li

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