Indeed. Forcing somebody to work more than 10h/day and 50h/week counts as assault and can land you in prison in some countries in Europe.

Funny...that's not something I've ever run into my whole career.

There have been a very FEW long nighters here and there when we had to get something out the door, or maybe servers/database went off line....

But those were extremely rare occasions...which I could likely count on both hands all my life and still have fingers left.

No one holds a gun to your head to work outrageous hours in the US.

He is right that the gap between the US and Europe gets larger though: The US is losing its middle-class and everybody is getting poorer and poorer (excluding the rich).

But in the US, with so much opportunity...and sometimes a little luck, you CAN create your own business and do very well.

And like the article says, in America, you can try, fail, and try again....till you make it.

Just takes mostly determination.

Yeah this is definitely a "I'll know it when I see it" type of judgement but to be fair most of their customer base if presented with the question of "how would you feel about someone using an AI app to perfectly map your face onto a nude body and distribute them and most people will not know the difference or see it labelled as fake in any way" would have a negative reaction to that.

Well....if the resultant images made me much less fat, and a bit more ripped....I dunno...maybe?

;)

jk

Why is it that the propaganda outlets will only show crimes on black people committed by other black people lately, and they won't report at all on the much higher amount of crimes committed on black people by white people?

Because statistics and raw numbers show that this is simply not the case, by a long shot.

Check your numbers again on black/black crime, especially violent crime.

...while other US states are trying to ban EVs, solar & wind, etc.. Swings & roundabouts, mate. Swings & roundabouts.

Ugh...I fucking HATE roundabouts.

I've seen a couple pop up here and there in a couple states I've been in recently.

Shortly followed by a huge increase in penalties and taxes for anybody operating one of those things in California. I know it's a dazzlingly beautiful and tempting notion but Milton Friedman was right about one thing, there is no such thing as a free lunch.

You know, at some point, when life gets tough enough in CA, taxes get just TOO high (and I'd have to think it's close now)....the people will finally wake up and vote the politicians OUT of office that are making their lives so difficult with regards to income, taxes and transportation.

It was only a few decades ago that CA was a Republican state.

It has changed back and forth over the years.

Numerous US states are going to ban new ICE sales , eg california by 2035.

I wouldn't hold my breath or put down heavy bets on that just yet.

With current trends...EV sales dropping, etc....unless the battery tech gets better quickly, and there is more infrastructure....states likely will have to extend those deadlines just out of practicality....

Of course a lot can happen in 10 years, but also, as we've seen....a lot can just NOT happen in 10 years.

There was a partially functional version that was official and sold. In the 80's you could buy it in Europe on a single 360K 5.25" floppy through a licensing arrangement between Microsoft and the French OEM Goupil. There's a write up about it at OS/2 Museum. It's clearly labeled "MS-DOS 4.00" when you boot it. But I didn't see the binaries for task swapper in there, so I'd say this is the M/T kernel without the full functionality of MT-DOS 4. A curiosity at best.

The developer and evaluation copies of Multitasking or M/T were produced by Microsoft officially. Including nicely printed disk labels, but no retail box. The copies we have come from people who worked on the project or had the foresight to (illegally) back up an evaluation copy. MT-DOS was not sold in a complete form as far as I'm aware. Which is why we have copies that say things like "Beta" or "Evaluation" or "GoupilOEM" all over it.

This is the super rare Multitasking (M/T) DOS 4.0 that wasn't available retail. The opposite of "most popular" to me.

I bought a Book 8088 earlier this year. So perhaps the time is ripe for me to chip into a DOS fork.

My contempt for landlords and my expression of that contempt is not hate speech. So your definition is a little lacking.

I wonder why they do search, seems like something expensive to do if there is no business purpose for it.

They were making assumptions, the type which can often go against the average citizen and it should not be such.

There are liberals on the supreme court?!

VERY much so...

Kagen, Jackson and Sotomayor....I dunno if I got the spelling right on those...

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

I'll bet you are the life of the party, amiright?

Personally, I'd rather stay young at heart and mind....especially when the body starts to fail a bit.

Can you cite some examples of overreach besides vague recollections?

Sackett vs EPA is the one I was thinking of...easy to google my friend.

And I found one from NPR to satisfy your liberal bent...

;)

This ruling arrowed the scope of the Clean Water Act and the agency's power to regulate waterways and wetlands.

There have been others, this is setting precedent in a number of unrelated cases of citizens vs govt agency overreach.

A number of pending 2A cases going before SCOTUS use this and other rulings to fight against the ATF in their recent rulings...some of which turn millions of every day citizens into felons overnight for buying weapons that the ATF expressly stated for years (in writing) that it was legal to buy and own....pistol braces for one, and even the bump stock case.

I'll leave those for you to google.