instruction decoding on the m68k is a mess, and is Probably why it died after the 68060, It's convoluted, labyrinth encoding is vastly more complicated then x86. It didnt have any room for additional instructions which would have been needed in the following years , no cache control, no SIMD, etc.

Don't get me wrong its a very very clever instruction set, and a breeze to write assembler on, and neat that every instruction fits into 2 bytes. and still manages 16 registers using the data/address separation. I can't say enough nice things about the m68k, but sadly scaling up isn't one of them.

Both "government" and "corporation" are works of legal fiction, the first being created by the collective will of those governed, and the second create by the first work of legal fiction.
The problem comes in where the second is given extra legal rights in excess of those protected for the governed. Further it should be more correctly said that any entity which can extend force over another, no matter the circumstances that lead to that outcome, that in fact that entity becomes government.
The moment limited liability protections are enacted for corporations, the moment they have the right to eminent domain or to capture private property from another(see Texas common carrier law for example), the stop being the governed, and become the government itself.
To an extent these extra legal rights are a matter of practicality, the organization of property ownership, and all the works required for productive endeavors are important to the maintenance of society as a whole.
Property, Corporation, Government, are all concepts created by the mutual consent of those governed by them, Things like the legal fiction that is money are created to aid in their management.
The forth branch of government known as corporation has grown well beyond the means of reason. It has perfected misuse of the powers granted to it to subvert the powers of the original three branches of government.
Corporations originally existed for the public good, a bridge needs building and maintenance, a city needs something to manage the docks, etc. with powers limited to that needed function, then they expanded to organize private property, such as merchant fleets, and yet still limited, it wasn't until later every business became a corporation, old blacksmiths, and farmers, and artisans of all types, where each held liable for their own actions with no special rights became corporations.
For awhile we where free from lords and kings, then we invented new ones, corporation, not organized by kingdoms and nobility, but by practical function and ownership. And slowly, a new nobility being born, an aristocracy of the ultra wealthy using the powers of corporation to curtail the branches of government which they do not control via writ fiat.
Low corporate taxes, privatization, are just tools to expand this control.

They increased the standard deduction, while dumping both personal exemptions, and the elderly(or medicare) exemption.

Yes your standard deduction went from $6,000~ to $12,000~(for single adult), but you lost the $4,000 personal exemption. And remember that the personal exemption is off the top before anything else, It won't lower the value of other deductions like the standard deduction does.

The base tax bracket went from 10% to 12% as well, Along side the lose of many many deductions in general, the SALT (State and Local tax deduction), a deduction put into place to avoid double taxation, the $10,000 cap doesnt effect the lower middle class, its most certainly is a hit to anyone living somewhere with high property values, and higher taxes.

Among the few positive things in the tax bill, the increase in the child tax credits, and making large chunks of those credits rebatable, its another step towards a basic income guarantee.

Neutral changes include things like the mortgage interest deduction changes, you can only deduct interest from a single primary residence and the cap from dropped from $1,000,000 to $750,000. This provision was mostly a fuck you to California and New York, and a few other "high tax states". The only proper change to the mortgage deduction would be to convert it to a one time use home purchase credit. This deduction is very very expensive, and as such could easily allow a $70,000-90,000 dollar home purchase credit per person(so double that for couples)(between 500,000 and 700,000 of these per year).

The vast majority of people got screwed by tax deform.

And once you start to look at secondary effects it gets worse. The corporate tax cut is creating a horrid situation for workers in "marginal profit" places, Workers(mostly in rural area's) now have to compete with the marginal expense of relocating the capital from that small town walmart to some magic wall-street instrument. When given the choice of paying a $1.00 to an employee in rural Alabama and maybe having a $1.10 at the end of the year after overhead for a $0.10 cent profit, they can just remove that dollar and pay it out as profit for a maybe $0.97 cent profit right now. Unless of course you are Amazon then its a $1.03 profit right now......

It is no surprise that walmart closed 100+ locations shortly after tax deform passed, And they are not the only example that I can site.

A bit of equity allocation adjustment is good and healthy in the long term, but equity isn't being reallocated, its being sold for temporary profit for a minority of people, at the cost of the wider economy. Its also accelerating the failure of economies in rural towns and cities across the country.

Not really, I would call this completely expected. After the crazy ramp up of production their is bound to be more employees then needed as the rate of production levels off and stabilizes.
Don't be shocked if you see more of this as parts are redesigned to be friendlier to automation, redundancies are reduced, or processes adjusted.
Workforce adjustments are inevitable, in an undertaking like this. On the plus side, future Gigafactories will see less of this as the production process can be copied from the existing one, and fewer excess personal taken on in the learning process for development of the production line.

No it was both, The customer webportal domain name is only visable from within Centurylinks network. So, If i was you I would double check your VPN's settings and make sure that DNS traffic is being correctly forwarded over the VPN.

Second During the attack(yes that is what I consider this), port 443 was left alone and was routable etc, only port 80 traffic was blocked, My gmail kept working, my instant messaging client kept working, my udp traffic with the game I was playing kept working.

Some funny shit went down todo this. and their most certainlly was DNS hijacking going on.

I use cloudflares 1.1.1.1 myself, granted UNIFI does not support dns over https, however after this, I will move my DNS onto raspberry that does correctly support dns over https.

Their system crashed a couple of times leaving me this nugget.
Sorry I have no clue how to make it formated nicely.
#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use CGI qw/:standard/; use WalledGarden; my $CACHETIME = 3600; our %config; do '/etc/wg.conf'; my $wg = WalledGarden->new(); my $cgi = CGI->new(); my $UD = new Cache::Memcached { 'namespace' => 'excessive_use', 'servers' => $config{ 'memcached_servers' }, 'debug' => 0, 'compress_threshold' => 10_000, }; # Parse the incoming URL string my $host = $ENV{HTTP_HOST}; my $referer = $ENV{HTTP_REFERER}; my $wgurl; if( $referer =~ /http:\/\/$host\/index.html\?wgsid=([^&]*)(?:&wgurl=(.*))*/ ) { $wg->session_id($1); $wgurl = $2; } else { $wg->session_id('NO_SESSION_ID'); } my $url = 'http://customer.notify.centurylink.com/utah_restore_internet.html'; # Allow override for debug/testing/demo if( $wg->is_internal_ip( $wg->remote_ip() )) { my $uname = $cgi->param('uname'); if( defined $uname and $uname =~ /^[A-Za-z0-9]{4,16}$/ ) { $wg->uid( $uname ); } else { $wg->uid('accounttest'); } } # Perform redirect my $uname = $wg->uid(); my $tn = $wg->wtn(); if( $@ or $wg->err() ne '' ) { $wg->log_it( "$uname ($tn) ERROR: Self-release redirected to error.html" ); print redirect( -uri => '/error.html' ); } elsif( $uname eq 'mnlabppp06' or $uname eq 'wgtest-hlrn' or $uname eq 'wgtest-mpls' or $uname eq 'wgtest-stpl') { $wg->log_it( "Test user $uname - skipping self-release" ); print redirect( -uri => $url ); mark_wall_user_out($tn,$uname); } elsif( $wg->is_internal_ip( $wg->remote_ip() )) { $wg->log_it( "$uname ($tn) Internal ip quickout'ed. Not released or DB updated." ); $wg->bigip_quickout(); print header( -type => 'text/plain' ); print "Would now be redirected to $url"; } else { if ( self_release() ) { $wg->log_it( "$uname ($tn): Self-released" ); } else { $wg->log_it( "$uname ($tn): ERROR: Self-release failed." ); } print redirect( -uri => $url ); mark_wall_user_out($tn,$uname); } sub self_release { # Update BigIP quickout table depending and initiate releasing customer from walled garden my $quickout_time = shift; # Value in seconds $quickout_time ? $wg->bigip_quickout($quickout_time) : $wg->bigip_quickout(); $wg->release(); } # End self_release sub mark_wall_user_out { my $tn = shift; my $uname = shift; my $tn1; my $tn2; if ( $tn =~ /:/ ) { ($tn1,$tn2) = split(/:/, $tn); } else { $tn1 = $tn; $tn2 = 0; } my $sql = q( UPDATE state_of_utah SET wg_out_time = NOW(), end_process = NOW(), wg_status = 'COMPLETE' WHERE tn = ? AND notice_year = YEAR(curdate() ) ); $wg->log_it( "$uname ($tn): Self-released" ); my $result = $wg->do_db_write( $sql,$tn1 ); if ( $result->{RowsChanged} > 0 ) { $wg->log_it( "User $uname ($tn) mark_wall_user_out update successful." ); return 1; } else { $wg->log_it( "ERROR: User $uname ($tn) mark_wall_user_out update failed with tn $tn1. SQL: $sql" ); if ( $tn2 ) { # Attempt to update db table with 2nd bonded TN if first TN failed $result = $wg->do_db_write( $sql,$tn2 ); if ( $result->{RowsChanged} > 0 ) { $wg->log_it( "User $uname ($tn) mark_wall_user_out update successful with 2nd tn $tn2." ); return 1; } else { $wg->log_it( "ERROR: User $uname ($tn) mark_wall_user_out update failed with tn $tn2. SQL: $sql" ); } } return 0; } } # End mark_wall_user_out

Competition is such a strong word to describe this "relationship". Perhaps, bing flounders uselessly before Google search? I mean bing isn't even worthy of being typed with a capitol letter, the very word is beneath other proper nouns. If bing where a hard drive, you would have to put the jumper on the drive to configure it in slav......., sorry in post 2018 vanacular, secondary mode! Dodged a bullet their, was gunna have Duckduckgo pissed at me. Tho Altavista wouldn't have minded.

Odd Bill Clinton doesn't look Slovenian at all.....

It can either spend a few bucks to solve all sorts or ills, or it can spend a few bucks to cause them...

$22,000 Average cost of policing each homeless person per year
$45,000 Average cost per person placed in prison per year
$75,000 Average cost per person found dead with no family, savings, or estate to auction, when funeral/cremation is left to be paid for by local government
$130,000,000,000 Yearly cost of uncompensated health care at emergency rooms shifted onto your health care insurance premiums, and doctor copays by the poor

Don't delude yourself, not paying isn't an option. Their is no magic scenario where you don't pay.

We can either spend on compassionate programs to help people, or we can spend more money through various private gatekeepers and local governments and pretend we are not spending because its not on our federal tax statement, and generally have cruel outcomes that damage society as a while.

I generally don't believe in charity, I believe in changing the system that created the need for charity in the first place.

Granted I will fully admit that its a bit of a Marxist view, But you can't give with the right hand, what you toke with the left hand, its a fundamentally uneven exchange.

Sure I could take that $27 dollars and feed a couple homeless people for a day, or I could spend that on changing the system that created the inequality that created those homeless people in the first place.

Government provided access to health care/mental health care, low education jobs, Education, and housing programs will do much more then a single food/money donation ever could.

Government debt is different from your personal debt, The US government could spend over $500 billion dollars per year in debt and not grow the debt as a percentage of the GDP, Government income to relative to the taxable money, as the economy grows, the population grows, and inflation goes, the government revenue also grows. Basically, the current GDP is 17.7 trillion dollars, so inflation(1.5-2%) with growth (3%) is $885 dollar increase for the following year, as long as the government deficit spending is that or less, the debt is as a percent of the gdp staying the same or shrinking.

So long as the US governments debt is denominated in US dollars, and the US government still controls the US dollar, then their is nothing to worry about, as debt is simply something governments have, and it is always measured in values comparable to the national GDP($17.7 trillion for 2014).

Only the most foolish of idiot governments would want their debt denominated in a foreign currency, or a currency in which the government does not control the central bank(see: Greece).

We in the US have neither problem, our problem is within our slash and burn politics of the right wing, that thinks massive cuts to the highest economic multiplier things in our budget(health care, social security, food stamps), will somehow not shrink growth to the point that it is negative, and reduce tax collections to the extent that the cuts have been canceled out(again see: Greece).

Does QT use xlib or xcb under the hood on X11 based systems. I ask because I would like to thread applications without worrying about the finicky nature of xlib when threading is involved.

Even a James bond villain would question of the ethics of CenturyLink.

And where are they getting the money?, They where at last I counted over $20 billion dollars in the hole, And Rackspace isn't large enough to be used as part of their leveraged buyout "WorldCom" esk scam.