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The sad, slow death of TCM.
By ootsy,
September 20, 2021 in General Discussions
Dargo
An "Acquired Taste"
LocationSedona, Arizona
14 minutes ago, Vautrin said:
It's just his website or whatever one wants to call it. It always looks to me like a letter.
Good catch. That is Fassbinder, with Hanna in the background.
And here all these years I thought it was a composite picture of De Niro as both Jake LaMotta AND Rupert Pupkin!
(...also always reminded me a bit of Bobby Darin too, btw)
20 minutes ago, mr6666 said:
but I still think they 'glean' ideas from the Programming Challenges thread........
Yeah, maybe Mr.Sixes. I suppose that there's an outside chance of this.
Have to admit here though, and as you probably know, I seldom venture into that thread, and so wouldn't know if what you're positing here would be true or not.
(...but IF on the outside chance that this MIGHT be true at all, then whatever you do, PLEASE do not now tell me here that it was someone AROUND HERE who actually came up with that lame "Astrology" series a while back?!!!)
Fausterlitz
4 hours ago, Vautrin said:
maybe on his official orange haired man stationary.
4 hours ago, unwatchable said:
I'd love to get a look at that stationary.
stationary = not moving (adjective)
stationery = writing paper (noun)
(Sorry, I normally refrain from correcting any one person's spelling, but seeing the same error twice in immediate succession triggered a sense of civic duty to limit the contagion before it morphed into a pandemic. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.) 🙂
Mr. Gorman
Locationstate of GA
@Dargo: Yes, Dargo, I came up with the 'Astrology' series. My friends call me 'MOON TRASH' behind my back and I thought it naturally reflective [whatever that might mean] to turn my insidious attentions toward banal things! And so we had the 'Astrology' series. I knew this chick named 'STAR CHILD' and I'd selected her to host this fetid field day . . . but before she could read my palm again for encouragement THE COSMOS swallowed her up! Gone -- just like that. → Swallowed whole in a seething space morass! GULP! 😛
Well, hell, there went the neighborhood . . . what was I to do? I consulted my "BIG BOOK OF STARS AND PLUMBING CONSTRUCTION" but could find no answers upon which to base my selection as host of the hoary exercise. So I delegated my responsibility and had TCM do the 'host search' thing.
Because I am a 'Truly Modern Man' I take no blame for *anything* that went wrong! I aspired for this 'Astrology' bit to be a highly intelligent discourse about the joys of 'Space Junk' and its effects on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds. But nooooo! My high standards were compromised by low-rent production values. Damn. 🤪
All of this makes me a 'POMAWB' (means 'Pi*ss*ed Off Middle-Age White Boy'). But I digress. I bid you all Good Evening.
2 minutes ago, Mr. Gorman said:
@Dargo: Yes, Dargo, I came up with the 'Astrology' series. My friends call me 'MOON TRASH' and I thought it naturally reflective [whatever that might mean] to turn my insidious attentions toward banal things! And so we had the 'Astrology' series. I knew this chick named 'STAR CHILD' and I'd selected her to host this fetid field day . . . but before she could my palm it seems THE COSMOS swallowed her up! Gone -- just like that. → Swallowed whole in a seething space morass! GULP!
All of this makes me a 'POMAWB' (means 'Pi*ss*ed Off Middle-Age While Boy'). But I digress. I bid you all Good Evening.
Ah-HA! So NOW the truth comes out, eh "Moon Trash"?!!!
MOON UNIT was taken by one of those Zappa chix, ya know? There was nuttin' I could do! I'm just stuck with "Moon Trash" until I empty my Intergalactic Garbage Can. Sheesh.
Quel siecle a mains!
LocationNorth Carolina
1 hour ago, Dargo said:
I see a little similarity, though I hadn't thought of it before. Fassbinder had a kind of round baby face,
which is not much like De Niro or Darin. Plus he looks quite different from different angles. I don't
think he ever looked conventionally handsome.
So I take it this has always precluded your use of the phrase "Gag me with a spoon". Possible copyright infringement and all.
(...ya know, I HAVE wondered why I've never seen you use that phrase around here...now, I guess I know, huh)
Even Homer nods, though I'm no Homer. When writing on an uneven surface it's best to keep
your stationery stationary.
TRIVIA NUGGET: Bobby Darin and Rainer Werner Fassbinder both died at age 37.
unwatchable
Caution: Landmines
Lovely. 😄 One of the things I admire most in this world is sharp wit. Meanwhile, the grade school spelling bee drones on...
slaytonf
1 hour ago, slaytonf said:
With apologies to the faithful in the crowd: As it was in the beginning is now, and ever shall be, complaints.
filmhistorian
I for one am happy to see some of the newer films airing. I've been a long time fan of TCM and it's nice to see some of these films airing uncut and in their proper aspect ratio. Something most every other channel out there would never do.
Many of these films aren't even circulating around anymore so it's not as if they are airing repeatedly on several different channels. The days of going to the video store and being able to rent all of these films are long gone. Sure maybe a few will show up on Fox Movie Channel or AMC from time to time, so what? It's not as if the TCM showing of the film is happening every week. After all these years I'm thankful TCM has stayed true to their format of airing films uncut and in their theatrical ratio (whenever possible) commercial free. Think of how many channels over the years started off great and have gone downhill to the point where they are unwatchable.
Remember how good AMC used to be. Remember how good TV Land used to be, one of the only channels airing all of its tv shows uncut.
I've discovered so many films on TCM over the years (both new and old) that I wouldn't have otherwise. TCM is a treasure to so many millions of people out there. From time to time they are going to air something you don't care for. Show me any other channel out there that every single show or movie they air you watch and like. Go ahead, I'll wait...
11 hours ago, Mr. Gorman said:
And one of those "chix" being his DAUGHTER, y'know(who has that name ).
Interesting coincidence. They probably both knew the lyrics to Mack the Knife, though in different
languages. Bobby Darin had lifelong health problems, whereas Fassbinder died of a drug overdose.
Gone but not 4 got 10.
But of little practical import for me. Except for yesterday, I haven't written either stationary or stationery
for the last ten years and likely won't for the next ten.
David Guercio
TCM will never ever change. Ben said his set may be different and it looks like Dave's. Alicia's. Jacqlane's and Eddie's are all the same and he said they will never ever stop showing classic movies. Ever. So everything will be fine.
Movie Collector OH
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On 9/22/2021 at 12:33 PM, Sepiatone said:
Keep in mind that the channel is still called "Turner Classic Movies" regardless of the appearance of the logo (and for me at least, the "C" still looks like a "C". But maybe because I might be a bit more literate than some ).
Illiterate?? That could just be bad eyesight. No, they have a crappy new logo, Period. Not even worthy of the home shopping channels.
David Proulx
17 hours ago, Dargo said:
Well, I hate to tell you this Dave, but I've had the "feeling" since about a year or so after I became a member on these boards (this being just over ten years ago now, mind you) that the ONLY thing the "staff" around here has ever "skimmed over" in search of WASN'T or ISN'T for any "feedback", but was REALLY only to edit posts that they've felt might contain "questionable language" and/or language which might create a "flame war".
(...nope, other than THAT and sorry to say once again, I don't think "feedback" is that high on the "staff's" priority list, and IF it's even ON their "priority list" AT ALL!)
Did I mention that I had the slimmest of hope? lol
brianNH
Movie Collector: I'll be brash enough to think that Sepiatone's comment was a little jab at my contention that the new TCM logo contains a letter "O" rather than a letter "C." All in good fun, Sepiatone; all in good fun. I'll have you know that it elicited a good, old-fashioned guffaw up here in New Hampshire. (I think it scared the groundhog that's been chomping clover in our backyard lately)
bgwh888
I don't really care how old a movie is, so long as it's good, and it just feels like a lot of these newer movies are just crap. Worse than that is when the repeat the same crap over and over. How many times are they going to show Rollerball?
Sometimes it isn't even TCM's fault. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and it's various reincarnations play almost continuously on other channels. Why add to the pollution? Granted, they're good movies, but this is like getting diabetes from eating too much candy.
And then with the subtitle movies and silents added to the general rotation, I'm finding the channel that I used to watch almost exclusively, I'm now watching only rarely.
Without TCM I'm thinking the price of cable just isn't worth it anymore.
12 minutes ago, bgwh888 said:
If I abandoned TCM, yes, I feel like I would be just fine without paying for cable (and I will not pay for a TCM streaming service). However, when you say foreign films and silents make the channel less attractive, I can't go along with you. Pre-1928 films and films spoken in another tongue- man, there's an entire universe of greatness you're missing out on. But, matters of taste are matters of taste. Still, I think if you are a true fan of film, you are doing yourself a disservice.
3 hours ago, brianNH said:
I am Moviecollector. Hear me roar.
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Allhallowsday
On 9/20/2021 at 4:50 PM, ootsy said:
You won't recognize TCM three months from now.
10? Rage? The Hot Rock? Super Cops?
These "classics" never would have been shown on the old TCM, but on the new TCCM, HEY! Anything goes! Just call it "Classic".
It's only going to get worse.
TCM is dead. Long live TCM!
I thought TCM had show THE HOT ROCK numerous times. I caught a few moments of 10, and laughed at what I saw. RAGE I had never seen and watched only a small part; I did not care for it. SUPER COPS I think they've shown before. None are particularly novel for the channel as far as content.
Now. All of the movies you mentioned are hardly offensive, welcome to catch a glimpse of and thank goodness they weren't the usually over-repeated showings. Who decides what's classic? Heck! Each film you mention is at least 40 years old...! What's the criteria?


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An AFI Draft
I've still got that upcoming (June 20th) AFI "New Top 100" unveiling on my mind. I like the idea more than I did when I first heard it. They plan on doing this once every ten years throughout this century, not only to give the latest films a chance to be counted among the greatest ever, but measure changing cultural standards of movie quality. That's pretty cool.
So, in honor of the effort and because I'm such a big fan of lists, I downloaded their selection of 400 nominees to see if I could come up with my own top 100 choices. Well . . . 100 movies isn't enough, and everybody who loves the movies knows that. How can you measure which 100 American movies are the greatest? You can't. But it's fun to try, and that's really all I've done. This is a draft, more than anything else. That's part of what I like about this "once every 10 years" business . . . it acknowledges that there is not, nor can there be, a definitive list.
Just so you have something to keep in mind, here are the criteria for a top 100 movie. It must be a "FEATURE-LENGTH, AMERICAN FICTION FILM" that has achieved "CRITICAL RECOGNITION," won "MAJOR AWARDS," and demonstrates "POPULARITY OVER TIME," "HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE" and
"CULTURAL IMPACT."
The official ballot requests that you select up to 100 movies from its list of nominees, but allows for up to five write-in votes for anything they may not have included. It also asks that you rank your top 5 movie picks "for tie-breaking purposes only." So, below, I have my top 5 followed by my write-in votes and then my remaining selections. Keep in mind that everything below the write-in section is taken from the nominee list provided by the AFI.
One further note: I have six write-ins. I just couldn't whittle it down below that. I consider it justified because the new nominee list includes selections like Austin Powers, Shrek and Harry Potter 3 in lieu of worthier choices. Furthermore, the three starred write-ins appeared on the 1997 nominee list but were bumped from the new one.
As always, comments and suggestions are welcome, even solicited. What shouldn't be her? What ought to replace it? Why? What does your top five look like, and what else ought to be written-in?
1. The Godfather
2. Citizen Kane
3. Casablanca
4. Schindler's List
5. To Kill a Mockingbird
Write-ins
Anatomy of a Murder*
Fiddler on the Roof*
Judgment at Nuremberg*
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
Remaining List (alphabetical order)
All the President's Men
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Bringing Up Baby
Coolhand Luke
Driving Miss Daisy
The Graduate
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Hotel Rwanda
It Happened One Night
Little Caesar
Moulin Rouge!
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
North by Northwest
Rebel Without a Cause
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
~ by Jared on June 1, 2007.
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3 Responses to "An AFI Draft"
I would have added The Pianist (even if it is during the same period as Schindlers List), among others…
Micah said this on	June 9, 2007 at 11:43 pm | Reply
I agree,The Pianist should have been added also.
Cindy said this on	June 21, 2007 at 8:37 am | Reply
I'll agree that The Pianist is an excellent movie that deserves recognition, however it wasn't even on the list of 400 nominees. Why not? I had an idea, so I checked . . . It's because it doesn't qualify as an American film. Produced entirely on foreign soil by a foreign director and based on material by a non-American, it couldn't be considered for a spot as one of the Greatest American Films of All Time.
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Published on: Thursday August 26 2010
My apologies to all readers who were inconvenienced by the multi-page layout.
All of the Laws, slightly re-worded [1], are here once more. To view the original pages, click on the numerals.
A sanely designed personal computer system:
I - Obeys operator
The operator shall retain full control of the machine at all times. In particular, the handling of the keyboard, mouse, and other human interface devices must take absolute priority over all other processing. The operator shall have the ability to issue commands and receive immediate confirmation of said commands at all times, regardless of system load.
II - Forgives mistakes
Information which entered the machine through deliberate operator action shall never be destroyed or otherwise rendered inaccessible except as a result of deliberate operator action to that end. No operator action shall lead to the destruction of information unless said destruction is the explicit and sole purpose of the action. If all non-volatile storage space that could hold full undo-information for operator-initiated actions is exhausted, the operator shall be informed immediately and given the opportunity to explicitly erase unwanted data or connect additional storage devices, thus preventing unintentional information loss.
III - Retains knowledge
Volatile storage devices (i.e. RAM) shall serve exclusively as read/write cache for non-volatile storage devices. From the perspective of all software except for the operating system, the machine must present a single address space which can be considered non-volatile. No computer system obeys this law which takes longer to fully recover its state from a disruption of its power source than an electric lamp would.
IV - Preserves meaning
Compilation is to be considered a form of caching, and thus shall happen solely behind the scenes, like all other forms of caching. (See the Third Law.) The machine is to accept no externally-introduced executable code except in the form preferred for making modifications (i.e. source.) All executable code visible during any kind of debugging session or accessible to the operator in any other way shall also be exclusively of this form. Nothing residing at any lower levels of abstraction shall be semantically relevant to the machine's operation. In effect, the machine behaves exactly like a "hardware interpreter" of a high-level programming language. Note that what the silicon actually does to achieve this is irrelevant so long as no programmer need ever be made aware of just how it does it.
V - Survives disruptions
If the machine encounters an error condition requiring the operator's intervention, the state of the now-halted process prior to this event shall be preserved, and the operator given an opportunity to correct the error using an interactive debugger and resume execution from the saved-and-corrected state. The debugger shall display the code which generated the condition -- and any other executable code on the system, upon request. All of the code shall be viewable and editable in the form preferred for modification. (See the Fourth Law.)
VI - Reveals purpose
All of the information contained inside the machine's storage array (see the Third Law), whether executable or not, shall be accessible at all times for inspection and modification by the operator, in the form preferred for modification. The operator shall have the ability to modify the functionality of any executable code within the system without cycling power or performing any similar ritual. No modification of any kind shall be able to render the means for undoing said modification (the keyboard and a spare instance of the built-in debugger) inoperable.
VII - Serves loyally
The machine shall never tell a lie to the operator. It shall obey all orders given to it through the human interface devices, without attempting to pass judgement on their legality or morality. The machine shall not put the interests of any third party (including society in the abstract) above those of its operator.
[1] In particular, the distinction between "user" and "programmer" is an artifact of our presently barely-programmable and barely-usable computing systems. I would like to use the neutral word "operator" instead.
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19 Responses to "Seven Laws of Sane Personal Computing"
Hi Stanislav,
1. is trivially true and more broadly wrong. The whole wording of commands and obedience is wrong - it's imperative. Jef Raskin likes the dialogue metaphor better, and I agree. LISP's conditions are in the same vein. Totally interactive, based on a dialogue instead of a monologue.
Like I said, the UI being responsive is trivial. More meaningfully, any objects you pay attention to should gain priority automatically. The UI should have absolute priority so long as you're at the mouse and keyboard. *When you're away from the UI then the UI should lose priority*.
Confirmation can be tricky depending on what you mean by it. It's trivially true but most people understand it to be interrupting confirmation. Which is egregiously ... reprehensible. Despicable even. That's not what you mean obviously, but the language you use is ambiguous.
3. has a name - transparent persistence.
4. smalltalk has this - it's a great feature. Transparent compilation to go with transparent persistence?
5. seems to be a combination of reflection and interactivity.
6. is reflection. Which has to be moderated by progressive disclosure.
7. honesty and loyalty are interesting. I considered them to be so basic that I never bothered including them in my comprehensive enumeration of OS principles on the original wiki. Honesty and loyalty both contradict bondage & discipline languages, and also ACLs which lie about the impossibility of proxies and are disloyal to the operator.
Samantha Atkins says:
Once upon a time I worked for an Object Database company. Transparent persistence was my thing. Just for fun/coolness I decide to persist everything in the Smalltalk image, save the bare handful of classes and instances it must have to crank up the image, to disk and transparently fault it in as needed. It was wondrous.
It was fairly easy with Smalltalk with its highy data homogeneity and byte code representations of methods, and pretty thorough reflection. It would be much harder with an ugly language like C++.
Connor Lane Smith says:
I've written a response, particularly with respect to functional purity. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
dmbarbour says:
1.realtime: A weaker form of this is more practical - I doubt you could achieve hard-realtime user input for arbitrary service apps. But you could feasibly provide hard-realtime access to hard-realtime simplified job-control and authority-control console (akin to Windows Ctrl+Alt+Delete).
1.security: You might consider adopting some principles from Secure Interaction Design. I understand you intended real-time responsiveness, but true "operator control" over what is happening requires supporting the operator in making sane security decisions at the HCI, allowing revocation of authorities, and so on. (In a sense, job control may itself be reduced to security decisions, especially if scheduling or memory are provided via these authorities.)
3. Naive transparent persistence of the sort you describe here will conflict with maintenance and upgrade concerns. If you have transparent persistence, you will also need runtime upgrade - e.g. via automated synchronization. I share Bracha's opinion that 'full service' computing will be the 'application' killer that makes transparent persistence truly feasible.
4. At least as written, this would be unenforceable. You can use a high-level language as the basis for distributing code, and you can compile and cache this code... (and I do agree with these features!). But one may also use a high-level language as a compilation target, or run the code through an obfuscater.
5,6. I think it unlikely that most operators will be interested in debugging their applications, though I agree that a language suited for live-programming and debugging would be nice for the developers. You might pursue dataflow programming or reactive programming as a base paradigm, as these can support (limited) 'retroactive' effects from edits to code - which greatly shrinks the edit-test cycle for live programming.
6. Rather than by reflection and inspection of potentially obfuscated 'source' code, revelation of 'purpose' might be better achieved by secure design - control distribution of authority, and give operator full control and awareness of this. cf. 1.security. You'll need to organize authorities in a manner a user can grok them... e.g. a one-time screenshot within the next 15 seconds, or access to the webcam for the duration the application is visible on desktop, or authority to look at the current GPS coordinates of the portable computing device.
Stanislav says:
Dear dmbarbour,
1 - Just why not? Why should any process have the ability to monopolize the I/O apparatus?
2 - I favor security through understandability. Just about everyone is stuck in the "hard security" paradigm (http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/HardSecurity ). It is an intrinsically broken concept.
3 - I will say more about this later. It deserves its own post.
4 - Why should I (or anyone) tolerate obfuscated code on my system? It is a declaration of war against my mind. The social norm that we should put up with such things on our computers is a broken one: see the Seventh Law. Obfuscated code destroys my ability to usefully interrogate the machine about its activity at all times, and is thus as welcome as an anthill would be in my living room.
5,6 - This assumes that applications developed under a fully transparent system will have similar rates of bugginess to those currently available. I disagree.
6 - See (2). I will say more about this later.
-Stanislav
Why should any process have the ability to monopolize the I/O apparatus?
Huh? Responsiveness requires a lot more features than just multi-plexing the I/O apparatus. In particular, you need also to ensure that the application is in a state to receive input or produce output. This raises issues involving such things as progress, divergence, real-time event handlers, real-time garbage collection...
I favor security through understandability.
Then you should consider adopting some principles from Secure Interaction Design. SID is all about security through understandability - i.e. ensuring that users of an HCI are aware and in control of security issues. (Since programming languages are HCIs, the principles apply to language design as well.)
Just about everyone is stuck in the "hard security" paradigm
That doesn't mean I'm suggesting it. What I'm against is 'eggshell' security: a hard outside and a soft, gooey middle that easily rots once exposed. Capability security models take just one principle from 'soft security' and apply it deeply and repeatedly and in an understandable manner: limit damage.
Why should I (or anyone) tolerate obfuscated code on my system?
The primary reason: obfuscated code helps protect IP rights of the developers. If you do not accept obfuscated code on your system, then you'll typically shrink the market and developer pool. The market for video games was $12 billion in 2008. How many video game developers do you believe would provide original source? Assuming a large community of LoperOS users, how many do you believe would tolerate obfuscated code in order to play a quality game?
Obfuscated code destroys my ability to usefully interrogate the machine about its activity
Don't exaggerate. It doesn't destroy all of your ability to usefully interrogate the machine. I would say: it doesn't even affect most of an operator's ability to usefully interrogate the machine. I offer the following reasons:
First, the "activity" most relevant to operator decisions is IO and resource consumption - the content and destination of outputs, access to sensitive information, use of memory and CPU, and so on. Obfuscated code does not affect your ability to interrogate a machine about a process's IO and resource consumption.
Second, if LoperOS were ever successful, then most users would not be programmers and would not be in the habit of studying code to grok what's happening. Obfuscated code would have zero impact on most operator's ability to usefully interrogate a machine about its activity. By comparison, effective control over flow of sensitive information or authority for sensitive operations would remain critical.
Thank you for the SID link. I will read it as soon as I can.
Your other points are equally interesting and deserve a proper post-length reply, which I will write as soon as I have the time.
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Hi Loper -
Your blog a breath of fresh air. You seem to be the only person around who really understands that these computers should work for us - not the other way around.
The first language I learned was Logo - under Abelson and Sussman at MIT. Currently the main languages I use are Maude (an algebraic executable specification language) and interpreted non-von-Neumann array-processing languages such as J. Maybe some Scala for more commercial stuff.
My machine still runs Windows - I just don't know if there would be that much to gain by installing a dual-boot system involving Linux. (I've got to keep WIndows around in order to keep one foot in the commercial world.)
I've read some of your ideas earlier about making a machine that's specifically designed to run a better OS, and I think that you're headed in the right direction. It's unfortunate that more people in the industry don't think as clearly as you do. Apparently most people are quite happy be chained to the desk working for the machine - instead of the machine working for them.
well, the blog software here doesn't follow the rules of this manifesto.
i posted a compliment praising your ideas - and the blog software ate it - and i can't find it now.
maybe i didn't do the captcha right. it was damn near unreadable.
i am soooo tired of spending such a large chunk of my computing time fighting off spam and viruses.
Dear ScottA,
Your post came through. All comments are moderated by default, and I had to approve it.
Thanks Stanislav.
By the way, your earlier post about "you've made your bedrock, now lie in it" was wonderful. I have used your "Legos" metaphor to explain to several laypersons why most of today's computers suck.
This is another reason why I like Maude so much. You can "see" all the way down to the "bottom". (Yes, there are things going on *below* that - but they always *work* - so you needn't muck around below that.) The lowest-level things you need to worry about in Maude are the modules fed in via the file prelude.maude - which typically starts with a definition of an interesting and important set called "Boolean" containing two elements called "true" and "false" (and a few simple operators such as "and", "or", "not"), and then moves on to a set called "Nat" containing an infinite number of elements, the first one called "0" and the rest of them constructible by using a function called "s" or "succ" (for "successor") along with some operators such as "+" and "*" - ie, Peano notation.
I totally agree with your observation about how reliable hardware is (we don't have to debug things like Intel or AMD chips), versus how unreliable software is. It is an outrage that most simply accept the "fact" that most commercial software won't do what it claims to do.
I know you are just one "vox clamantis in deserto" - but if more people were as demanding as you are, then maybe computing might actually progress and serve humanity - instead of the other way around.
By the way, back in the mid-90s there was some talk about designing a "Rewrite Rule Machine" for the Maude algebraic specification language:
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&safe=off&q=maude+%22rewrite+rule+machine%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=c6affe93747c32d0
It sounds like this might be similar to your ideas about designing specialized hardware optimized for the OS and languages running on it.
The Maude language itself is highly successful, even in its current publicly available implementation (a command-line interpreter running on several platforms including Linux and Windows).
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1. Obeys operator... (lets say dumb)
2 Forgives mistakes....
7. Shares your personal data entry with another operator (let's say smart)
Does this not prove that a pc's are hacked by smart Christians fooling dumb atheists?
Terry Davis, is that you? How is TempleOS coming along?
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I don't think that a good computer must be good for everything and everyone. A good computer does not need to be good at playing or editing video. A good computer should be free to suck as a gaming platform. A good computer might be most useful as a remote control for other, less good, computers I do think that minicomputers were better computers than microcomputers. The Apple II ruined it for everyone and we never recovered.
Dear sunnysideup,
I thought it was rather obvious, but this piece concerned the general-purpose computer (aka "Intelligence Amplifier" rather than every possible electric calculating device.)
I (along with millions of other people..) had many occasions to build various single-purpose computers which performed 100% to spec. But these were not the subject of this piece... instead, it is about the instrument with which one designs these and other artifacts of thought.
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Crossroads (2019) is a marimba and cajón duo composed for award winning percussionist, Bryce Turner. At times, the cajón player is asked to simultaneously play deskbells with feet.
The piece is an intersection of rhythmic complexity and melodic simplicity. Throughout the piece, the two players share complex unison rhythms, requiring focused attention to groove and time. This is underscored by the addition of simple melodic figures, adding another element for the players to navigate. The goal is to create a blitz of tight rhythms and grooves while also bringing clarity to the simple, often times singable, melodic ideas. This juxtaposition makes Crossroads one of the most technically and musically demanding pieces I've written.


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Want to Grow Your Own Backyard Fruits? It's Not Hard to Get Started
Home // Home // Want to Grow Your Own Backyard Fruits? It's Not Hard to Get Started
DELAWARE, Ohio – With the downturn in the economy and the move toward healthier, locally produced foods, more Ohio homeowners are interested in growing their own backyard fruits. They'll be happy to learn that it isn't hard to get started.
Gary Gao, an Ohio State University Extension educator in agriculture and natural resources, said that several types of fruit crops are beginner-grower friendly.
"It just takes a little management input, time and patience," he said.
The following are some of the easier, more popular fruit crops to grow in a garden, or backyard landscape:
•	Strawberries – "Strawberries are not tough to grow at all. It's the one fruit crop I recommend to those who are just starting to dabble in backyard fruit production," said Gao. The two most popular types of strawberries in Ohio are ever-bearing strawberries, which will produce a crop the same year they are planted, and June-bearing strawberries, which will produce a crop in the second year of planting. "Strawberries are great if you have limited space, as you can grow them in containers," said Gao. "You will want to protect the fruit from birds, squirrels and rabbits using netting or chicken wire. If you don't, you won't have much of a crop to harvest."
•	Brambles, such as raspberries and blackberries – "There is tremendous interest right now to grow brambles," said Gao, "and homeowners have access to all kinds of varieties." With raspberries, growers can choose from red, black, purple and yellow varieties. "A traditional red raspberry that is quite dependable is 'Heritage'. 'Caroline' is another good red variety that produces bigger fruit and is said to taste better," said Gao. "For a good black raspberry, try 'Jewel' or 'Bristol', and for a good yellow raspberry, try 'Fall Gold' or 'Anne'." With blackberries, growers can choose between thorny or thornless varieties. "A good thornless variety is 'Apache'," said Gao. "Two good new blackberry varieties are 'Prime Jim' and 'Prime Jan'. Both will produce fruit in their first year of growth, as opposed to traditional varieties which produce fruit in the second year." Gao said that these two blackberries are ideal for Ohio weather conditions because of their ability to produce fruit on new shoots if the floral canes are damaged by cold temperatures in winter.
•	Blueberries – "Blueberries are bit more challenging to grow because you need to keep the soil acidic. Soils in central Ohio are not acidic enough so you have to apply a sulfur amendment annually to keep soil pH between 4.5 and 5.5," said Gao. In addition, Gao recommends growers plant two to three blueberry varieties to encourage cross pollination and keep the plants productive. "Blueberries will generally produce fruit in their third year of production," he said.
•	Grapes – "If a homeowner wants to grow grape plants simply for landscape design, it's not that difficult, but it gets more challenging when fruit production and fruit quality come into play," said Gao. "From that standpoint, grape production can be challenging to control insects and diseases. A grower also needs to know what grapes are grown for which products. Are they interested in juice grapes, wine grapes, grapes for jellies? These are some things they need to think about." Gao said that to get started, most growers choose Concord grape – a popular variety in Ohio noted for jellies, jams and pies. "There are many other grape cultivars that can be grown in Ohio," said Gao. "Select those that are less susceptible to fungal diseases."
•	Apple trees – Of all the fruit trees that Ohio homeowners can plant in their yard, the apple tree is the easiest to maintain and produce high-quality fruit. The biggest mistake homeowners make, however, is choosing varieties based on what they would normally buy in a grocery store. "People will go to the store and buy 'Gala' or 'Honeycrisp' because they love those cultivars. But such cultivars can be difficult to maintain from a disease and insect perspective," said Gao. "We generally recommend growers look to disease-resistant varieties and try growing those first. Some of them are 'Enterprise', 'Freedom', 'Jonafree', and 'Liberty'." Apple-lovers also have to wait several years before a tree produces fruit, depending on the type of apple tree and where it was purchased. "There are dwarf, semi-dwarf and standard apple trees. A dwarf tree, for example, will produce fruit in its third or fourth year. However, if a homeowner purchases a tree from a local nursery, it could already be two or three years old, so you may get fruit production sooner," said Gao.
For additional information on how to grow backyard fruits successfully, refer to the Midwest Home Fruit Production Guide. The 148-page how-to manual is available via PDF at http://ohioline.osu.edu/b940/index.html, or a hard copy can be purchased for $19 from the OSU Extension e-store at http://estore.osu-extension.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2231. In addition, refer to OSU Extension Bulletin 780, "Controlling Diseases and Insects in Home Fruit Plants," for spray schedules and pest management practices at http://ohioline.osu.edu/b780/index.html.
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Nokome and I landed in LA at the end of last week - him from the rainy Pacific Northwest and me from OpenCon in Berlin. We got to break out our sunnies and met up at Documentand check out K-town's coffee scene.
We'd first met Miriam Posner at csv,conf,v3 and were super excited to connect with her and others at the UCLA Center for Digital Humantites. Digital humanities students come from diverse backgrounds and data science skills are critical to student success. As we've heard from faculty in other fields, most students come to digital humanities projects with spreadsheet experience but many have not worked with programming languages in the past. At Stencila, we are thinking of this type of student as we design so hearing from faculty and digital humanities students is critical to our process.
Our feedback session sparked great conversation, and the features that were developed by the teams centered around easy summary statistics and data visualization tools. This type of feature has surfaced repeatedly on our trip, but was not really on our radar until now. Participant driven software design at work! As we synthesize the feedback from our trip, we'll keep you posted on how we address this request.
After the session, we walked across the stunning UCLA campus and had a fun happy hour with UCLA researchers at a local bar.
Thanks UCLA - we'll be in touch!


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André Cardinal Destouches (París, 6 d'abril de 1672 - 7 de febrer de 1749) fou un compositor francès del Barroc.

En la seva joventut fou mosqueter i després va estar a punt d'entrar en la Companyia de Jesús, fins a acabar dedicant-se a la música. Va ser mestre de capella de la cort del Gran Duc, on entre altres alumnes va tenir en Carl Theodor Theus. Va escriure nombroses òperes, entre elles les titulades:
 Issé;
 Amadis de Gréce (1699);
 Marthésie (1699);
 L'Omphale (1701);
 Callirhoé (1712);
 Telémaque (1714);
 Sémiramis (1718);
 Les éléments (1725);
 Les stratagémes de l'amour (1726).

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When COVID Strikes Cancer Patients, Men Fare Worse
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Men with COVID-19 and cancer run a greater risk for severe symptoms and death than women with both conditions, a new study finds.
Researchers concluded that male cancer patients are 60% more likely to have severe COVID-19 and even die from it than women.
"Knowing this propensity for poorer outcomes in males with COVID-19 and cancer will help physicians make better decisions in caring for them in clinical settings," said study author Dr. Anup Kasi, an assistant professor of oncology at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Other studies had noted a higher death rate for men who developed COVID-19. The research team wondered if such gender differences would also apply to cancer patients. "We didn't know if the same gender differences in severity risk would still apply or not," Kasi said in a hospital news release.
The researchers reviewed 17 studies about COVID-19 and cancer published through June. These included nearly 4,000 patients who had both diseases.
"The data behind risk factors for COVID-19 in the general population as well as in the cancer patient population is still evolving," Kasi said. "But the takeaway message is that the male sex may be a potential risk factor in the cancer patient population for poor outcomes with COVID-19 infections."
The report was initially published online in the journal EClinical Medicine. The Lancet subsequently ran an updated version.
For more on COVID-19, see the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
SOURCE: University of Kansas Cancer Center, news release, Nov. 24, 2020
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In what has to be one of this year's most star-studded categories, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie earned a shiny new performance of the year belt buckle at the 2014 CMT Music Awards for their performance of "Oh No/All Night Long" on 2013's CMT Artists of the Year special.
The award at Wednesday night's (June 4) awards show was presented by CMT Crossroads veterans Keith Urban and Kacey Musgraves, the latter of whom makes her Crossroads debut with pop megastar Katy Perry on June 13.
Bryan, looking summery in a baby blue blazer, was all pearly whites as he accepted the award next to the legendary Richie.
Richie was just as excited to receive his first belt buckle.
He was so pleased, in fact, he suggested that another collaboration may be in order soon.
"All I can say is if I'm having this much fun, let's do it again," he added.
Bryan opened the CMT Music Awards with Florida Georgia Line, Jason Derulo and ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill. He also performed his solo hit, "Play It Again," later in the show.


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3-point goals: Vance 3, Kent, D. Besancon, O. Besancon. Fouls: Smi., 16-8. Rebounds: Smi., 26 (Indermuhle 7); Nor., 27 (Holcomb 11). Turnovers: Nor., 12-5. JV score: Norwayne won.
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A missed chance to condemn violence
Posted Wednesday, January 27, 2021 1:00 am
By Dennis Warden, Publisher
Just five days after the riot on the U.S.Capitol earlier this month, the FBI released a memo which highlighted plans for "armed protests" in all 50 state capitol cities to occur on or before the inauguration of Joe Biden.
Because of this and other threats, 21,000 National Guard troops were deployed in Washington D.C. for the inauguration last Wednesday.
Preparations and extra police were called outinmajorcitiesallacrossAmerica,includ- ing Jefferson City.
Presumably these riots were to be carried out by supporters of Donald Trump in protest of Biden's inauguration.
A funny thing happened. Republicans did not come out to protest and destroy business- es across the country. It was the left-wing — which has had lots of practice — that organized, protested and looted the day our 46th President was inaugurated.
Riots occurred in Seattle, Wash., Portland, Ore., and Denver, Colo.
According to authorities, in Portland —
where they had 221 days of rioting last year — protesters damaged a federal immigration facility, then they moved on to smash up the Democratic Party of Oregon headquarters.
Sgt. Kevin Allen, with the Portland po- lice department, said protesters were seen carrying pepper ball guns, electronic control weapons (similar to stun guns), shields, fireworks, and rocks.
These protesters were smarter and more experienced than the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol. They brought more than weapons. To keep from being identified by police they brought umbrellas to block surveillance cameras.
Video clips from the riot in Portland show
people holding banners that read: "We are ungovernable" and "We don't want Biden - We want revenge!" for "Police Murders," "Imperialist Wars" and "Fascist Massacres."
These riots were reportedly organized by Antifa — or what Joe Biden called just an idea last September in the first Presidential debate.
There were no National Guard troops at thesegatheringstoprotectthebuildingsthat were ransacked.
In Seattle police reported multiple win- dows shattered at the William Kenzo Na- kamura Courthouse by rioters. Rioters may have crossed the line and gone to far when they damaged Seattle's original Starbucks store.
A report on Foxnews.com detailed pro- tests in Denver where "protesters burned an American flag in separate demonstrations that reportedly involved members of the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as others who chanted anti-Trump and anti-Biden
slogans."
On last Friday, the Mayor of Bellingham,
Wash. was rushed out of City Hall when a mob of protesters stormed the building, reminiscent of the Jan. 6 riot in D.C.
These cities have one thing in common — Democrat mayors and governments which do little to put down and discourage these reoccurring violent protests.
Conservative columnist Miranda Devine said on Friday that left-wing prosecutors oftenchoosenottopursuechargesagainst rioters after arrests are made.
And in keeping with the theme of underre- porting or ignoring violence from radicals on the left, the three broadcast networks, ABC, CBS and NBC spent a total of 50 seconds talking about these riots on their Thursday news programs —30 seconds on CBS; 20 seconds on NBC; and nothing on ABC — all without mentioning Antifa.
"During President Biden's inauguration Wednesday, the networks repeatedly remind- ed Americans of the horrible violence from Trump supporters two weeks ago, storming the Capitol over the election results. But, overnight, violent leftists took to the streets, rioting in at least two different cities in 'pro- test' over Biden's election, and the networks couldn't care less," Media Research Center news analyst Kristine Marsh wrote.
The day after the terrible riot organized and carried out by his supporters on Jan. 6, President Donald Trump condemned it.
In 2015 President Barack Obama con- demned rioting in Baltimore, Md. after FreddieGraydiedinpolicecustody.
I write this column on Sunday — four days after the Antifa, Black Lives Matter protests — neither President Biden or his administration has condemned the Jan. 20 riots.
If Biden is going to be the President of every American, Republican and Democrat alike, he needs to learn to stand up to violence no matter what side of the aisle it comes from.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-internal-memo-warns-of-plans-for-armed-protests-in-all-50-state-capitals-ahead-of-biden-inauguration
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2021/01/14/national-guard-dc-presence-will-swell-to-26000-for-biden-inauguration/
https://www.foxnews.com/us/left-wing-riots-cities-after-biden-inauguration
https://www.foxnews.com/us/anti-biden-antifa-portland-police
https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6225477252001#sp=show-clips
Another September day from my memory
We need a law to make sure laws are enforced
Let's learn to be more civil in 2022
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Stacie and I went on a hike to COIT tower. Apparently some lady that was romantically involved with a fireman donated a bunch of money and some stupid tower to the city of SF. Not a lot of pictures of this, but I'll give it my best description.
Stacie insisted on going WAY out of the way to hike some stairs (like a million stairs) to get to this tower. There are a couple pictures from that. Once we got to the tower, there was a gift shop roughly the size of a shoe-box if it were wrapped around a tall garbage can (that would be the tower). You have to buy a ticket for a few dollars to go to the top of this mega-trash can.
Once yo uhave your ticket, you pile into an elevator roughly the size of a toe nail (sticking with the trash-can/shoebox analogy scaling). Standing room only. You'd better have good breath or keep your goddamn mouth shut. The tour guide rambled on about the history of the trash can, but I couldn't understand a word of it. His breath was't very good either.
The rim of the can: big windows, extremely crowded with both tourists trying to get a good view of the fog and people who saw the fog waiting in line to go back down the elevator. FAIL. We looked around, elbowed a bunch of people, laughed at some people doing Segway Tours, and then got in line to go back down. The tour guide had a second speech for the trip back down which was equally stinky and muddled.
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Activision has launched a week-long campaign across Future Publishing's GamesRadar Network and TotalFilm.com website to push its Quantum of Solace video game, reports MAD.
The content-led campaign will see new exclusive content released each day, including screenshots, behind-the-scenes information and competitions with the chance to win the game. The campaign lasts seven days charting the run-up to the film release at the end of this week.
The deal was brokered directly with Activision, the games publisher, with the campaign designed and created in-house by Future's digital team.
Based on the movie, Quantum of Solace is the first 007 game created under a publishing deal between Eon Games and Activision and marks Daniel Craig's video game debut - lending his voice and likeness to the in-game Bond.
In the past three months, Future has created campaigns for Mercedes, Range Rover Sport and a Europe-wide Dark Knight campaign for Maxell Europe.


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That was a really interesting account of the Great Wall of China. when I lived in Beijing back in the 1980's it was not nearly as touristy as it is now but Badaling still had too many tourists to be enjoyable. One weekend, a Chinese friend took my family and I to Simatai which is one of the more remote locations of the Great wall. Apparently it was one of the hideouts of the Communist party during the Great March, or so I was told, I never could verify the story for sure.
When we arrived at Simatai there were only a few local people around, most of them were hawking souvenirs and booklets of the Great Wall. One persistent woman kept pestering me to buy her books. I told her that I would buy all her books and give her 200 yuan if she would take us to the end of the wall. She readily agreed because 200 yuan was more than she would make in a month back then. We had to cross a narrow stream to get to the first lookout. After that the wall went upwards at a angle of about 60 degrees. My wife, old daughter and son gave up after the second watchtower. My youngest daughter hung in with the guide and me. The guide told me," put your foot where I put my foot and you will be fine". I did exactly what she said and mimicked her every move. At that moment I really appreciated all the years of martial arts practice. We slowly made our way along, stopping from time to time when the guided indicated that we should stop to look at the view of northern China and glimpses of Mongolia in the distance. It was breathtaking but not nearly as breathtaking as the wall ahead of us. At one point we were walking along a path literally on the top of the mountain, there was no wall just a broad path about six feet wide. On either side was a shear drop. We hung close to our guide. Eventually, we made it to the end of the wall. In the 1990's there was no one thee to prevent you from going all the wall, they probably did not think that there were foreigners foolishness enough to brave the entire wall. It was an experience that I will never forget and neither will my family.
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The softer side of Alex Grignon isn't something NMU football's hard-nosed safety had ever really shown, that is, until Quincy came into his life.
Grignon, a four-year starter for the Wildcats, and girlfriend Vanessa Anderson welcomed baby Quincy on June 19, giving them someone new to love and one more task to tackle.
"I have a family now, and every decision I make is going to affect my family," Grignon said. "I have to put family first, and it's easy to put family first because I love them so much."
The change wasn't something that affected only the lives of Vanessa and Grignon but Wildcat football head coach Bernie Anderson as well.
Vanessa, is Anderson's daughter, and gave the football coach a grandson.
"Whether you're 15 years old or 50, when God gives you a little one, it's a gift. And that's exactly how we look at it," Anderson said. "It's a great gift from God, and it couldn't be any better."
But it's no easy job to perform. Taking on the new task of being a father, while also a college athlete and full time student, is a taxing duty.
"Every move he makes is setting an example because he is a role model now, even though Quincy is only two months old," Vanessa said. "He knows that he is a father figure."
"He has balanced his time with family, school and football to the point that he optimizes his time with each well," she added.
Vanessa was forced to make sacrifices as well as she was a member of the NMU track team where she ran sprints and participated in pole vault. Vanessa still loves to run and stays close with team members, but feels her priorities have shifted.
"I would love to pick it up again, with faith that I could get my strength and speed back," Vanessa said, "but my priorities have shifted to something I love more and track has become more of a hobby for me running is an activity I enjoy to do as more of a hobby and not so much as competition."
In addition to Grignon guiding his son, stepping up to be a leader of a young Wildcat defense is something that he has taken upon himself. The defense returns only five starters from last season's group and five of the players expected to start will be sophomores or red-shirt freshman; all who will be looking to the experienced players, such as Grignon, for guidance.
"After both of us found out that we were going to be parents, we both grew up real fast and matured," Grignon said. "As a senior now, in my last season of football, I'm stepping up and becoming a leader."
Grignon, who recorded 44 tackles last season, along with two fumble recoveries, will be looking to improve on last season's individual performance and the overall team record of 5-5.
"I think he has a very good understanding of where his priorities are – where he puts his effort, his attitude toward all of them; he's enjoying life, and I think he's enjoying his role," Anderson said. "He's carried a very positive attitude, and his performances have increased and gotten better."
"I think he has a super attitude right now and is playing the best he has in four years," he added.
Junior linebacker and team captain Nathan Yelk came to NMU in the same recruiting class as Grignon. The two players have played together for three years, including last season's final game against defending national champion Grand Valley State, where each player started on defense.
Yelk admitted he has noticed the maturity level of Grignon increase over the years, especially recently.
"He has matured a lot as a player and obviously as a person now, being a father," Yelk said, "You can tell by the way he carries himself."
Having the support and aid of family and friends is something both Vanessa and Grignon have had throughout the entire process and something that has been important to both.
"Our families have both been there from the start," Vanessa said. "Realizing that we are young and that we are going to need their support – they have been our backbone since we were kids and want to make sure we raise our children to be the best they can be."
At 7:03 a.m. the morning Quincy was born, Grignon had been at the hospital with Vanessa for six hours. He said he felt it hard to put into words, just how he felt the first time he saw his baby boy.
"It was nerve racking waiting," Grignon said. "And it was a hard feeling to explain the first time I saw him, just how much you instantly love him."
Spending time with Quincy is the biggest joy Grignon said he has, and he is looking forward to the future with his son, from playing video games with him to teaching him the game of football.
"Being a dad puts life in perspective for you. In the past, on the field I've kind of felt like losses or mistakes were the end of the world, but now, win, lose or draw, when I come home Quincy isn't going to care how his dad did," Grignon said. "He is just going to care that his dad is home and it's time to play."


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List of 9 things women couldn't do in 1971 is mostly right
CLOSE To commemorate 100 years of women's right to vote, USA TODAY recognizes influential women from every state and U.S. territories. USA TODAY The claim: In 1971, women could not do these nine things. It wasn't that long ago a woman couldn't get a credit card in her own name, or […]
To commemorate 100 years of women's right to vote, USA TODAY recognizes influential women from every state and U.S. territories.
The claim: In 1971, women could not do these nine things.
It wasn't that long ago a woman couldn't get a credit card in her own name, or serve on a jury, or get an Ivy League education.
In fact, a viral Facebook post lists nine things a woman could not do in the United States in 1971. The post, made by Julia Siergiey Juraez, who said she copied and pasted it from someone else, has been shared more than 105,000 times.
Here is the list of "nine things a woman couldn't do in 1971" in the post:
Get a credit card in her own name.
Be guaranteed that they would not get fired for getting pregnant.
Serve on a jury.
Fight on the front lines.
Get an Ivy League education.
Take legal action against workplace sexual harassment.
Decide not to have sex with their husband.
Obtain health insurance at the same monetary rate as a man.
Take the birth control pill
Let's take this step by step, verifying each of the nine points and keeping in mind that the list says "a woman," not "all women."
Fact check: In 1952, Charlotta Bass was the first Black woman to run for vice president
Get a credit card in their own name
Banks could refuse women a credit card until the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 was signed into law. Prior to that, a bank could refuse to issue a credit card to an unmarried woman, and if a woman was married, her husband was required to cosign.
Many banks required single, divorced or widowed women to bring a man with them to cosign for a credit card, according to CNN, and some discounted the wages of women by as much as 50% when calculating their credit card limits, according to an article from Smithsonian Magazine.
This claim is true.
Be guaranteed that they would not get fired for getting pregnant
Women didn't get this protection until 1978.
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 prohibited sexual discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's website. It stated that women who are pregnant or have been affected by pregnancy or childbirth must be treated the same for all employment-related purposes.
An employer cannot refuse to hire a woman because of her pregnancy as long as she is able to perform the major functions of the job, according to the EEOC.
Before that law passed, however, there were numerous Supreme Court cases that dealt with employment discrimination against pregnant women, according to an article from jurist.org. The enactment of the law was in response to two Supreme Court cases.
Serve on a jury
The post states that women were kept out of some jury pools because they were considered the center of the home and were "too fragile to hear the grisly details of crimes and too sympathetic by nature to be able to remain objective about those accused of offenses." It says that this varied by state, as Utah found women were fit for jury duty in 1879.
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 gave women the right to serve on federal juries, however it was not until 1973 that all 50 states passed similar legislation, according to an article from Associated Press. It was not until the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Taylor v. Louisiana when the Court held that states must treat men and women in the same way in respect to jury service in 1975, according to an article from Humanities and Social Sciences Online.
Utah became the first state to deem women qualified for jury duty in 1898, according to the ACLU and Cornell Law School, not 1879. The post also misstated that women could serve on juries in all 50 states in 1973, when the date was actually 1975.
This claim is partly false.
Fight on the front lines
Women were admitted into military academies in 1976, but it was not until 2013 that the military ban on women in combat was lifted, according to the post. It also states that before 1973, women were only allowed in the military as nurses or support staff.
Service academies did first admit women in 1976, according to The Women's Memorial.
On Jan. 24, 2013, the Pentagon rescinded the rule that restricted women from serving in combat units, according to a Congressional Research Service report. On Dec. 3, 2015, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter ordered that the military open all combat jobs to women with no exceptions, according to the report.
Conscription, which was mandatory enlistment for state services, ended in 1973 and with that women's participation in the military increased, according to a research article titled "Women and War: What Physicians Should Know."
While women have participated in U.S. wars since the American Revolution, serving as nurses or other staff, it was not until 2013 when women were allowed to serve on the front lines.
Get an Ivy League education
The post states that Yale and Princeton did not accept female students until 1969, and Harvard in 1977, when it merged with the all-female Radcliffe College. Brown, Dartmouth and Columbia did not offer admission to women until 1971, 1972 and 1981 respectively, it states. In some specific instances women were allowed to take certain classes at Ivy League institutions, the post states.
"A handful of female graduate students were permitted to earn advanced degrees starting in 1962," according to "A Brief History of Women at Princeton" on the Princeton Alumni Association website. Princeton began coeducation starting in the fall of 1969, according to Princeton Alumni Weekly.
For some Ivy League colleges, women were accepted beforehand in specific circumstances or in a separate female college. At Harvard, for instance, women were taking classes in the early 1900s, according to the Harvard Gazette. However, Harvard merged with Radcliffe College officially in 1999, and in 1975 the two colleges merged their admissions.
In 1977, Harvard started "sex-blind admissions," according to the Harvard Gazette.
Women began attending Brown University's female college in 1891, but it was not until 1971 that Brown became coeducational, according to Brown University's website. Dartmouth began admitting women in the fall of 1972. For Columbia, the decision was made in 1981 to make classes coeducational for the fall of 1983, according to Columbia's website.
This claim is partly false. Some Ivies were open to women before 1971
Take legal action against workplace sexual harassment
The post states that the first time a court recognized that office sexual harassment as grounds for any legal action was in 1977.
A 1974 case called Barnes v. Train is commonly thought of as the first sexual harassment case. It was not until 1977 when the U.S. Court of Appeals found that the woman, Paulette Barnes, had been mistreated and that a supervisor had sexually harassed her, according to an article from Wenzelfenton.com.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 created the basis for discrimination cases in its Article VII and established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. But it wasn't until 1980 that the EEOC determined that sexual harassment was a form of sex discrimination.
Decide not to have sex if their husband wanted to
Spousal rape was not criminalized in all 50 states until 1993, the post states.
This is accurate.
In 1979, "a pair of cases highlighted changing legal attitudes about the concept," according to Time. In 1986, the Federal Sexual Abuse Act criminalized marital rape on all Federal lands, but it was not until July 5, 1993, when marital rape became a crime in the sexual offense codes in all 50 states, according to the National Criminal Justice Reference Service.
By 1996, 16 states had repealed all of their exemptions to marital rape, and 33 states had partially repealed exemptions.
Obtain health insurance at the same monetary rate as a man
Sex discrimination was not outlawed in health insurance until 2010, according to the post. It also says that many people, including sitting elected officials at the federal level, feel that "women do not mind paying a little more."
Women were routinely charged more for health insurance coverage than men, and it was not until the passage of the Affordable Care Act that it started to change, according to the American Bar Association.
Women still often pay more in health insurance than men. For health insurance companies, women are considered high risk because they tend to visit the doctor more frequently, live longer and have babies, according to healthline.com.
While the birth control pill was approved by the Federal Drug Administration for "severe menstrual distress" in 1957, it took years before it was approved for family planning.
"Issues like reproductive freedom and a woman's right to decide when and whether to have children were only just beginning to be openly discussed in the 1960s," the post said.
In 1960, the pill was approved for use as a contraceptive. However, it was illegal in some states and could only be prescribed to married women for purposes of family planning, the original post states. It says that not all pharmacies stocked the pill, and some who opposed birth control said, "oral contraceptives were immoral, promoted prostitution and were tantamount to abortion." It states that birth control was not approved for use by all women until several years later. A CNN list on "5 Things Women Couldn't Do in the 1960s" states the same.
PBS also confirms those dates, and says five years after the Food and Drug Administration approved the pill for contraceptive use, 6.5 million American women were on the pill.
Though it was not until 1972 that the pill was available to unmarried women, according to Time.
This claim is partly false, because birth control was available to some women in 1960.
Our rating: Partly false
The post presents claims that include a lot of truth but also some inaccuracies. Women could not get a credit card in their own name and serve on the front lines in 1971. They could get fired for getting pregnant, they could not take legal action against workplace sexual harassment, they paid more in health insurance and they were unable to take their husbands to court for rape. But the post is not accurate on women and juries, an Ivy League education or contraception.
Our fact-check sources:
CNN, Aug. 25, 2014, 5 things women couldn't do in the 1960s
Smithsonian Magazine, Jan. 8, 2014, Forty Years Ago, Women Had a Hard Time Getting Credit Cards
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978
Jurist, Dec. 20, 2014, History of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act
Humanities and Social Sciences, Nov. 2013, Shoehorning American women onto American juries
Associated Press, Nov. 16, 2018, History made when women were allowed to serve on jury
Cornell Law School, Billy J. TAYLOR, Appellant, v. State of LOUISIANA.
The Women's Memorial, Women Enter the Military Academies
Congressional Research Service, Dec. 13. 2016, Women in Combat: Issues for Congress
US National Library of Medicine, Women and War What Physicians Should Know
Princeton Alumni Weekly, Oct. 5, 2016, When Women Came to Princeton
Princeton Alumni Association, A Brief History of Women at Princeton
Harvard Gazette, April 26, 2012, Hard-earned gains for women at Harvard
Brown University, A Brief History of Women at Brown University
Columbia College Today, July/August 2009, 25 years of Coeducation
WenzelFentonCabassa, Jan. 1, 2018, A History of Sexual Harassment Laws in the United States
History of Sexual Harassment Law
National Criminal Justice Reference Service, July 2003, Martial Rape: History, Research, and Practice
American Bar Association, July 1, 2010, What Health Reform Means for Women
Healthline, June 25, 2016, Should Women Pay More for Healthcare Services?
PBS, May 7, 2010, A brief history of the birth control pill
Children and Youth in History, Age of Consent Laws
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Finally, the trailer for the film AndhaDhun hit the media in an unusual time. The film is directed by Sriram Raghavan, while it has Ayushmann Khurrana, Tabu and Radhika Apte in the lead role. As the critics went through the trailer, they went ga-ga on it calling it to be the best trailer of any film this year. Though it would be rather too early to make any comment on the film itself, it would be interesting to see what really has impressed us in this trailer. The 3 minute trailer has a perfect length, which gives a fair amount of picture of the movie when compared to other trailers of 90 and 120 seconds.
The other key element in the trailer we have seen in the cat, which is the real cause of moving the story ahead. It was the cat only that leads to the murders that soon creates a mystery in it. The movie is directed by the man who is famous for directing films like Johnny Gaddar and Ek Hasina Thi, who has the potential of bringing out the best. Now, talking about the performances, indeed Anshuman Khurrana has scored the crony points, which makes him ahead of the show. The next comes is the lady Tabu who has created the right blend before the media by giving some of the coolest performance on the silver screen.
Checking over the trailer, one can make out that it would be a typical mystery film that gives you the best of the performances ahead. The film AndhaDhun has something really interesting to portray. The film is releasing on 5th October and it has much to offer to the media. Let's see how things go, but at the moment things remain too rosy for the makers as they can expect a big time film to catch. The makers are expecting to catch the film in a big way, let's see how things would move, but at the moment, let's see what goes beyond. Do comment on it and let us know what do you feel about it only with us.
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as these are unique items made to your requirements and therefore cannot be resold.
There will be a returns form inside the document holder on your parcel. Please complete this form and send the parcel back to us with your item(s) in the condition that they were sent, in the original packaging to the address below. Don't forget to send us proof of postage iso we can refund any eligible postage costs. Please see the FAQ section for more details about this.
Please let us know you are returning a parcel, by sending us a quick note about the items via our contact us form, or email info@lightsourceart.co.uk or telephone us. This way, we can expect your order back and it assists us with any replacement or exchange items that you may require, as we can check current stock levels straightaway and reserve any replacement goods.
Please allow up to 14 days from when we receive your parcel for any refunds to be processed.
If there are any problems with an item(s) purchased, please 'contact us'and let us know, as there is always a solution for any problem, but without communication, we will never know.