These are V-notch canals, made of cement and carry fast moving water. Not many creatures will try swimming or drinking in it. There are smaller mud canals that carry water from these to the field. Insects, birds, and animals can be found there.
DSL's goal was to provide most of the tools you might need in a tiny footprint. The platform target was the old "thin-client" style machines which might pack a 500 MHz AMD Geode or a VIA C3 processo and have either no internal storage or maybe a few hundred megabytes for preboot environments.
They were able to fit X (Xfree86, iirc) w/ Fluxbox, Firefox, Ted (a word processor), and a few other things into a 50 MB "bizcard" image (PCMCIA cards & compact flash).
Another thing it was designed to do was allow you to install most of the common things to a small internal storage device, while running the rest off of optical media.
It dates to the time before common support for USB booting. Also kinda crazy to realize you could fit Firefox, a windowing environment, and a kernel into 50 MiB while today the standard vim install is 33 MiB...
Millennials have least overlap with a living example of Communism. A turning point in Orwell's life came when he visited USSR. There's no USSR for a millennial to visit and validate his/her theories, College campus politics doesn't challenge them enough.
Orwell was opposed to the USSR when he realized their imperialism, not when he realized that socialism was a bad idea.
In any case, there are living examples of socialism right now. They are small in scale, but seem to be better than capitalism. Millennial socialism is also much closer to the socialism of George Orwell in any case, because it is much more libertarian than that of the 1900s.
Modern experiments would be Rojava, the Zapatistas, and so on.
Venezuela never got even close to socialism due to frankly stupid economic policy, their share of private enterprise was even higher than France, and Cuba while much better than comparable South American states is not modern, nor an experiment.
Democratic mechanisms to address these issues already exist, and they are in the hands of each State's legislature.
If you hold the Federal Government responsible, then you want to put this power in the hands of Federal Legislature. Are you ready to forsake the federal structure of US Government?
That is exactly what these protests are - part of the democratic process. To show the majority, who are not affected by police criminality through a combination of race and chance, the severity of the grievances by the minority who are.
As for the decentralization argument - I really don't want to be on this side of the states' rights debate, but that ship sailed a long time ago with regards to civil rights. It's not terribly unreasonable that individual rights are protected by state governments ior the federal government when an individual state is unwilling. Although we are currently witnessing a direct failure mode of this centralization, with the federal government having gone AWOL with regards to enforcing the law and even inciting lawlessness.
Do we live in separate universes? It is the media on the Left that is inciting violence by justifying and even glorifying violent riots. The federal government has done the opposite of invite lawlessness both now and in the past.
As we are now beginning to realize, the entire narrative of "rampant police brutality and killing of minorities" is simply a lie. Not backed up by the data.
Black communities need the police now more than ever. In Chicago over memorial day weekend over 50 people were shot. 11 killed. A 5 year old girl was shot! Where are the protests? Where is the rioting and the sanctimonious yapping from celebrities and companies?
There is none, because it's not politically advantageous for certain factions to address the real problems in the black community. Shameful and sickening.
Yeah, see, when black people call cops they themselves get beat up by cops who show up after a few hours and arrest anyone they see for bothering them. So, more cops would hardly help. But if you can have civil cops that live in the community they protect,maybe that might help.
Regardless, I doubt you will ever get it. I think the rioters are holding back too much if you ask me. If I was in fear of my life from cops and I have exhaused the political process for decades like this people, I would be more strategic about the destruction, target gas stations, 18 wheelers, transformers,etc... Cripple the city's critical infrastructure. When they try to demonstrate peacefully ypu complain, when they democractically elect someone you fight undemocractically and in bad faith to prevent their success. People armed with automatic weapons stormed city halls just a few weeks ago with no consequence. Did you not see cops doing a drive by shooting? Cops marching and breakint car windows for no reason? Cops tear gasing a peacefup protest? Getting caught framing protesters so they can beat them up?
My friend, the rioting is for people like you so you can hear their screaming, I think they need to scream louder since you're still dismissing their plight as if they haven't been peacefully protesting and voting since the 1950's and the current president vowed to unleash vicious dogs on them, something JFK fought against in the late 50's and early 60's. So I think they need to scream louder this way so you can hear them.
You may have some valid points in isolation, but as long as you keep rejecting others' substantive points that don't fit your narrative, it will continue to seem that you are living in a different universe.
The democratic system is founded on the fundamnetal rights of the people (live,liberty and pursuit of happiness), the police are attacking these fundamental rights and the people are excercising their right to freely assemble and air their grievances to the government, and again they are being physically assaulted for it. Proteating is a democractic process as is journalism.
If it helps protect innocent people's rights, I am willing to forsake the federal structure of the us government. I would actually be in favor of rewriting the condtitution. I think you forget the american war of independence and civil war were fought over much less.
Generic in terms of your taste or generic in the larger population? IMO the whole reason to have human helpers is to avoid both, while algos can do both kinds of generic well.
In this case it was a direct call for violence which is already spreading in this context.
Three lines from the play were highlighted.
>“The government is telling Muslims to leave India and go away.” In reply, the other child says, “Amma, Modi is saying show documents of your father and grandfather otherwise he is telling us to leave the country.” At this point, another child is heard saying, “Hit them with slippers if anybody asks for documents.”
The last one is directed at survey workers who have been (mis)targeted recently.
>Following instances of workers, engaged to conduct Poshan Abhiyan survey, facing hostile behaviour, the state government had issued an ad explaining that the survey had nothing to do with Census and NPR.
>In Kota, the woman attacked was a surveyor from the National Economic Census department collecting data for the National Economics Census 2019- 2020 in Brijdham area. Nazeeran Bano was let off only after she was able to convince the crowd that she, too, was a Muslim, like them. The police later arrested one person for the attack.
>The house of a 20-year-old woman was set on fire by a mob in West Bengal's Birbhum district on Wednesday, following rumours that she was collecting data for the proposed nationwide NRC.
>Chumki Khatun and her family are now under police protection after the incident happened in Gourbazar village in Mallarpur police station area, officials said.
I don't support sedition charges, but there should be a penalty for (1) promoting (even petty) violence against government workers and (2) getting your children to express this promotion.
>“The government is telling Muslims to leave India and go away.” In reply, the other child says, “Amma, Modi is saying show documents of your father and grandfather otherwise he is telling us to leave the country.” At this point, another child is heard saying, “Hit them with slippers if anybody asks for documents.”
The last one is directed at survey workers who have been (mis)targeted recently.
>Following instances of workers, engaged to conduct Poshan Abhiyan survey, facing hostile behaviour, the state government had issued an ad explaining that the survey had nothing to do with Census and NPR.
>In Kota, the woman attacked was a surveyor from the National Economic Census department collecting data for the National Economics Census 2019- 2020 in Brijdham area. Nazeeran Bano was let off only after she was able to convince the crowd that she, too, was a Muslim, like them. The police later arrested one person for the attack.
>The house of a 20-year-old woman was set on fire by a mob in West Bengal's Birbhum district on Wednesday, following rumours that she was collecting data for the proposed nationwide NRC.
>Chumki Khatun and her family are now under police protection after the incident happened in Gourbazar village in Mallarpur police station area, officials said.
I don't support sedition charges, but there should be a penalty for (1) promoting (even petty) violence against government workers and (2) getting your children to express this promotion.
Angel Tax was not 'ended'. There are still many conditions under which it is still applicable, governing both who can invest in a startup and how the startup can spend its money. [1]
A bigger issue which is still applicable today is that long term capital gains tax on startups and other unlisted companies is still 28.5%, while for listed stocks it is 10%. [2]
There are some exemptions announced today for foreign investments until 2024 with a lock-in period of 3 years. [3]
