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This is a bummer. Did you order the USA model or the Chinese model?
I see much of this on the subreddit as well. Though maybe I can be a point of anecdata to the opposite side. I ordered(Librem 5 USA) in December 21, got my phone in July 22. Had some small issues, emailed customer support, got helpful responses. The phone calls and texts fine. There are good apps, a good community, etc. I think there is a loud minority of people that didn't quite understand what they were buying into. A small company and a first product.. you're really speculating by being early. This is not going to be remotely close to the same experience as buying a device with +20y of development from a top 5 most traded public companies in the U.S.. I bought the phone with the understanding, maybe I get the phone in 2022, maybe I don't. Maybe I get the phone and it can't make calls/texts because of a software issue and I'll have to wait for a fix or aid in development.. I would recommend the phone to others who share similar expectations. Though I would recommend the USA version as they seem to be available. It seems those still waiting for phones might be stuck waiting for the chinese model.(chip shortage related? Idk)
Thank you for clarifying. I'll have to check out petalisp, I love discovreing new(to me) cl projects.
In defense of common lisp: The language is ansi standard and hasn't seen core changes in decades. This means cl pagckages can be "done". It is very common in cl to have projects that haven't been touched in years, because it is highly unlikely to break, hence, "it just works". As for this specific ML conversation, I am not in this field and have nothing valuble to say about who uses what and how viable/appropriate any of the approaches(languages) are for ML.
This is really cool! I've been thinking how cool it would be to turn MezzanoOS into a running mobileOS and then flash it onto my Librem 5. This is seems like a (working) version of what I want with image-based programing, but inside the smalltalk universe. Will keep a close eye on this one.
Its is so far past midnight where I am, Ill come back tomorrow to find sources better than a quick google search can provide. You are right, I jumped the gun on its occupation, thank you for calling me out on that. I think it was the lack of casualties and the fact I have read sources speaking to the intent of SC on damaging the fort and causing a fire storm was its strategy rather than the desire to cause casualties. Perhaps tomorrows search will prove my memory incorrect on that as well. But as for your last question. Where were the southern armamets being built up? Are you speaking to south carolina defending a marginal island fort just outside its own port? Does the third ammendment not strike a resemblance here? How could sc stand idle when a now foreign army is sneaking in just outside their major port in the middle of the night not be of major concern? Especially since it was unoccupied by the federal government, and james buchanan agreed to not have it taken. Its not like south carolina was sending boats to blockade washigton dc or new york or boston. Have I mistaken that stance? The south was segregated by states. Was another state building up forces on the border of pennsylvannia? Ohio? or even illinois? I genuinely have not heard of this and would appreciate tips!
Didnt mean to send yet. Your last point is excellent though! I agree
An interesting point that makes me stpo and think for a moment However, are you saying all single parents choose to be single parents? Do you speak for all single parents? My mother left my father to handle myself and siblings. I can tell you he didnt choose to be left behind.
Give me a literal number. It's a Class B misdemeanor to sell, barter, or offer the fur of a domestic dog or cat. Does that happen regularly? Your conflating that it happened. A law was put in the books. And so it must happen every day? Or maybe it happens enough to make you ucomfortable? I agreed that it happened. I nnever said that its not possible it happened multiple times. Your implicitly suggesting that this was a regular and normal occurance. Show me litteral numbers
I agree largely with your first paragraph! The world is a better place if people don't have total coercive power over others, self determination all the way!(obviously that statement lends to the subject and the great irony of the south). Long ignored.. the last 155 years is injustice made my the winners! Jim Crow laws were invented and wide spread in the north(1938 massachussets) before they went south.
Oif you know anything about the old south, white families penned themselves to the land they were on and married those in litteral proximities. Your son was going to marry the neighbors daughter. Thats why they were so defensive of thier land. It had been held closely for generations. Your using modern stanards of moving around constatly and marrying based on 60's free love standards. This was also not too uncommon of a stance made by west africans in their bative lands. Thats why africa is dense of language families, territorial familial rule. The anglo/Irish(ulster etc..)were very similiar in that regard. A story? Lincoln married a prominent kentucky slave holding white woman and sold her slaves for profit. Robert E lee was the executor of his wifes estate, and followed her fathers bequeathing of his slaves freedoms.
So your big criticisim of Nehemiah is that he is
1. He is a weirdo?
2. I can list more names who think as I do than I can count to the contrary?
Fair! My mistake, a little less than half of the states seceded due to the problem I addressed of excessive force which you have not discredited or properly justified.
Again your second paragraph attacks a small technicality. Your saying destroying a run down building on a sandbar is the same as conquering a 32000 square miles? Or are you saying that ignoring the definitions found in all english dictionaries is null and void for this specific use case? Seperating from a definitional union is not a revolt. If my wife leaves me do i get to threaten her with violence and then beat her if she refuses, then chain her permanently to me?
South Carolina did succeede due largely to its fear that the federal government would nationally abolish slavery. President Buchanan, before leaving office, made a gentlemans agreement that he would leave alone a largely abandoned sand bar military base that was run by South Carolinians inside the boundary of said state. In the middle of the night, a federal navy ship, who took all the armamments from a well established nearby federal military base, went to fort sumter and forced out the occupants by bayonet(kind of aggresive?/s) Cabinet members of Lincolns presidency warned him not to send reinforcements, which they were sure would further provoke sentiments of military provocation. He did anyway. This pissed off the SCians who decided, to hell with it no one gets this sand bar, and so they destroyed the base by cannon fire with no one there to nullify either parties claim. No one died, largely because no one was supposed too. Lincoln, then, decided he should call on the remaining states to build one of the largest armies assembled by the federal goverment to forcibly take back south carolina. This extereme overreaction to the situation is the well known historical reason why the rest of the states promptly left the union in its fear of the clear millitary power grab that was occuring before their eyes. Many powerful southerners did not want their home states succeed, including Robert E Lee!
Note: What I did not say in the second to last sentence was that there wasn't sentiment of the follower states of protecting slavery.
Lincoln, like a good lawyer, modified the definition of a word, union, from (meriam webster 1. the formation of a single political unit[okay sure, but read on] from two or more separate and independent. Most dicts use the word "confederacy" for this definition as well) a voluntary agreement between indepenent parts, to involuntary permanance. Did he use trade embargoes like a peace seeking consolidator would? Regardless of your opinion on slavery's involvement, or how righteous either side was, Lincoln, at best, poorly* navigated the waters of the time and was the clear cause of military escalation bringing the greatest casualty of americans lives by population of its respective era.
It is interesting that the emancipation proclamation did not free the slaves of the northern and northern occupied states, despite that being there "main concern"
I wanted to call bs on this, but for now it seems you are right. In Texas, there are plans to take an abandoned railroad line from about Farmersville to a location fairly close to Texarkana. I am not sure the exact mileage, but I would think it must compete. Here is an off the cusp link about it.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/traveling-130-miles-alon...
I agree with your last statement, good thing I am not the internet! The question of centralised sovereign banking was one of the first great debates of American politics/economics. For sake of not going into to much depth here, I will start and end with the Bank of Amsterdam, which is considered to be the first central bank. It became insolvent in 1790 due in part of its allowance for irriationally large sums of money to be loaned to big buiness such as the East India Company(the parent comment on CB's helping those closest to the "printing" spiggot). This, even as we say to this day, leaves the big players with assets bought with those loans and poor people with nothing and potentially no job until markets revitalize. Some solutions produced in my country's history includes the free banking system of Massachusetts, with the suffolk bank, and Andrew Jacksons attempt at decentralised sovereign banking. I am not here advocating for either btw. Hopefully this gives you a short, and noncomprehensive start on A: a cause for early distrust of central banks creating monetary favoritism to big buisness and B: the Americans who wanted different solutions. I might add, the parents statement about fractional reserve banking having been considered "fraud" is a bit out there, I'm with you on that. Ill try to scrape url sources later, watching the Masters today. Cheers!
Couldn't it be said that all the wealth inequality created by this system in europe created a massive collection of poor europeans who then decided to sell themselves to indentured sertitude in the America? This situation is the basis for why creating a fundamentally different kind of banking system was so important to the first few generations of Americans, thus the previous comment not being ahistorical at all.
I sure hope so! Mezzano has been great fun to follow progress on. Though its seems covid killed the project as it hasn't had a prebuild image update since 2020.
I discovered him through Coldplay. I can't remember which ones but he produced at least one of the early records.
Sticking to an American frame and the principle of freedom of speech from the federal government, if the premier league or another private organization wanted to enforce this from the boundaries of their stadium, that's fine.(banning people from being racist at football matches). Having legislation create a system of using the top level government resources to patrol the internet for what they deem to be racist should be concerning to a statesman that holds the original principles of the federal goverment to be law. This is because not only could they liberally enforce this onto people who are not being racist, but also to decide some forms of actual racism isn't racist and create a class of people who are above justice without any check on this power at the country level(except a slow bureaucracy/judicial system). Of course, England can do what ever it wants. If this is across the board what english want for themselves, great for them!
Also a long time iPhone 5/SE advocate. It was the last 0hone with flat edges(maybe not anymore). I am convinced they dedigned the following generations off a bar of soap, requiring another $30+ case, or an expensive screen replacement.
An american southerner with some nitpicks, specifically to one or two spots in your post.
1. The slaves were (largely) in the south until the abolishment of the instutution in the mid 1860's. Despite railroads being a Northern business("free as in freedom" labor) well before then. The heyday of railroad construction through out america began with the well know northern robber barrons of the 1870's 80's and 90's. In other words, no, slaves did not build the railroads; poor people from anywhere did; whites, recently made free(and poor) blacks, and in the american west, asians.
2. (As i understand it, someone show me otherwise) Africans who were shipped to America were not stolen from Africa. The western part of the continent was experiencing the introduction of the idea of nationalism. Certain west african tribes went on a warring land grab, and stole from other west africans. The conquering ethnicities didnt want the subjected ethicities around, and traded them for various goods at port to american northern shipping business. They, in turn, sold those individuals to southern traders in exchange for raw materials which then went on to the northern merchantile industry to then trade various final goods to nationalists in west africa for...
Anyway, just my two cents.
I understand that this is too much of a reach back.. but there must be some consideration of the fact that a decentralized weak america over threw the globes strongest power. That power thought that Indians(asia) were just English. That australians, canadians, the western colonies were were just English. Eventually there was a realization that these political differences demanded the allowance for self determination. It seems, in order to keep a strong central Oneness, we must enfore coercive, destructive powers to enforce one region over another. The comment I am responding to seems imply a similar extreme; that Floridians are perfectly reconcilable under the name American as is an Oregonite, who are sepperated by 1,556 miles away! Or even that generational Virginians have much politically and culturally in common with generational Massachusettsans. I don't know what is best, truly, but I hope the united states does not become one large California, or Texas, or any ideology that presupposes the people of a specific region. I'll hop off my soap box. :-)
As a proud 4th generation Texan, I would like to say going to California in various ways would strike me as being a place that uses state power in backwards ways as well.
Unfortunately for the both of us, not to speak for anything specifically to California, our states have managed to make some bad decisions. I believe I have standing to speak to recent Texas policy in regard to the recent abortion madness, illegalizing delta-8 THC products etc... sad times indeed.
I am very pro federalism myself, and think that competition of polity would be a great unwinding of federal power. But it seems the iterim is going to be the states fighting against the Fed in extreme ways.