i'd put the reagan years, newt, etc. as the start of regression this cycle. 9/11 was the excuse for heavy clamp downs on things other than just taxes/govt spending that started with regan. it sure feels like a pretty steady eroding of social progressiveness wins of the 60s-late 80s. TFG/MAGA let those folks feel empowered to say aloud what they'd been pushing for since reagan (and the civil war...).
one of the other things i think reagan did was normalize the fantasy of the 50s that never was, the stepford wives dream instead of the american dream. even blue collar MAGA seem to be buying into a past that never was.
one of the charms of places like NYC, London, etc. is that you can walk down the street and hear dozens of languages. you can find an overwhelming variety of foods, see a huge array of different clothing. always puzzles me, the people that find this threatening and not fascinating.
suspect you mean the 29 Mar 1976 cover. the copy i found is very heavily copyright limited on use but shows Manhattan, 9th ave, 10th ave, Hudson River, then a very narrow brown strip of bare earth, then the Pacific ocean. sums it up pretty well. ;)
i think it's tragic that we have turned college into a hugely expensive vocational education for so many and denied the true learning and possibilities of a liberal education to any that desires it.
"useful to society/capitalism" is a poor substitute for "bettering everyone".
- stop working if you drop streaming plans - stop working if the streaming service goes out of business - stop working if the streaming service decides they don't want to pay royalties to the artist - stop working if the streaming service takes it out of the catalog that month
buying vinyl, CDs, and paper books means you own the material. it's not a unilaterally revokable, highly limited and one-sided right to use license.
copyright law and "fair use" are a complete mess these days.
i went through calculus more than once. (more than twice...).
problem was lousy teachers, i found out. when i finally had a teacher who was a physics person at an army lab, he'd explain underlying concepts, show concrete examples of how things were used, showed how things related. it was revelatory. got straight As and actually learned.
i figure it's kind of like the zoo. as long as the monarchs are confined and can't get into the US, we love looking, poking things through the bars, and generally annoying them.
been interesting seeing what remastered albums have come out and how much clarity there is. got some jethro tull that i knew the albums inside out. amazing what was hiding in the original recordings.
and the dvd mixes, like eagles hells freezes over dvd or the steve wilson remixes of yes albums.
i've had several companies and boards with international spread where we just post the time in UTC and let everyone's own calendar figure out conversion to local time.
still screwy but a bit less error prone.
but DST just needs to die/stop... timezones make it hard enough.
for the same reason that having 1918 space & NAT as one layer of your security is frequently useful (though not enough in and of itself), NAT66 does solve some problems and make things harder for attackers.
it does up the complexity of debugging on your part, which is one reason i'm not a huge NAT fan in general. but security is all about risk/benefit/complexity tradeoffs.
be interested to see what you wind up with, assuming you can share.
i still remember the PGP source code and 3DES being classed as munitions. there were t-shirts w pgp code as one workaround.
a company i was working for (UUNET) was doing a 3DES encrypted tunnel box at the time. we had to get registered as arms dealers with the state dept. two cool results:
1) we got the auction catalog with used tanks, etc. seemed like the perfect DC commuting vehicle 2) i got to call my parents and tell them that they didn't have to worry about me working on that weird/shifty thing, the internet. i was now an arms dealer.
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