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There is a disconnect in ownership between roads and sidewalks that makes it all very political: "Sidewalks in front of homes can be a source of puzzlement over just who or what owns them. Generally, each state sets its own laws about ownership of property, including sidewalks in front of homes and buildings. Certain states say that sidewalks are owned by the cities, towns or other municipalities having jurisdiction. In California, for example, sidewalks in front of homes and businesses are owned by their municipalities, but their upkeep is to be handled by those homes and businesses."

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/sidewalks-considered-homeowners...


/dcc send instructions.txt


Systemd is the hammer and the problem looks like a nail to the systemd developers.

In this case systemd seems to be reinventing process groups, in a totally different way, instead of fixing whatever the reason is why GUI sessions don't use session leaders.

So it's pretty obvious there really is a problem that needs to be fixed, and apparently so far nobody else has made a real or successful attempt to do so.


The Rhine does not flow through Denmark.


Absolutely true, but irrelevant. Or maybe relevant because it's my point.


Wikipedia disagrees with that: "The term "brutalism" was originally coined by the Swedish architect Hans Asplund to describe Villa Göth in Uppsala, designed in 1949 by his contemporaries Bengt Edman and Lennart Holm.[citation needed] He originally used the Swedish-language term nybrutalism (new brutalism), which was picked up by a group of visiting English architects, including Michael Ventris. In England, the term was further adopted by architects Alison and Peter Smithson.[3][4] The term gained wide currency when the British architectural historian Reyner Banham used it in the title of his 1966 book, The New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic?, to characterise a somewhat recently established cluster of architectural approaches, particularly in Europe.[4]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture#History


Absolutely go for it! Post it even if you feel uncertain about it, just be clear about that, and about what your patch is trying to achieve, when the unexpected behaviour happens, and try to include a way for others to reproduce/investigate (as simple as possible, perhaps a program that demonstrates the bug). Also be clear about how you feel about whether or not the patch is the right approach and about what you would like list members to do with it (are you looking to confirm that what you're seeing is a real kernel bug, or a misunderstanding, or an application bug, and/or are you looking for help solving the bug/issue you're seeing, and/or are you looking to get it merged, etc). Can you demonstrate/quantify how your patch improves/fixes things, etc.


This just begs for some hardware with an e-ink display for a tabletop xkcd...


Ghosting is with three keys pressed: If there is a key A that is in the same row as a key B plus and also in the same column as a key C, then a fourth key (the 'ghost') appears to be pressed in the column of key B and the row of key C due to the shorting of the rows and columns, also in your scheme.


There are no columns in this design. The behaviour you're describing can't occur since this isn't a 2d matrix of keys. The keys are grouped such that putting voltage on an input pin will result in an output voltage on many pins depending on which keys are pressed at the time.


The money spend where '1/10 the money' was needed to save their lives is additional money spent, not 'instead money'.

In this particular case, the 'instead money' was pure profits for a company (and some taxes for the government).

Do you really think that the 'instead money' would have been a better choice?

Money is just money and is completely replaceable. Actually, we have machines to make it: it's printable. Actually, we don't even have to physically print the money to 'print the money'... It's a number in a computer file.

Every dollar is the same as every other dollar.

Each and every life, on the other hand, is unique.


Unfortunately, I wasn't clear in my comment above like I was in other comments in this thread. I am specifically referring to a not-for-profit focused healthcare system. If the choice is between profits and the care necessary to help a life, then it boils down to the contractual obligation of the insurer given the level of coverage purchased. In a nationalized healthcare system where costs are spread across all of society and the government has more or less determined the pool of healthcare dollars available by specifying the premium spent per citizen, there most certainly is a cost benefit analysis to consider.


With your reasoning, for example, the private prison companies would be valued incorrectly high (as do the companies that make the green lights for traffic intersections, the doors to stores, the electric power company, the wireless/phone/cable company, any company with any kind of monopoly, etc). What you're forgetting is to weigh for the difficulty to replace the company with another (that in some cases may already exist and only needs to move into the now vacant market).


I was being sarcastic. It's really hard to do that on the internet.


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