Do you think they did it this way because it would be too painful to tattoo fingertips? Can you tattoo fingertips?!
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No need to get pissy, I was just trying to re-explain myself in a way you'd understand.
Ah well it was worth a try.
I'm guessing then it's a sample rate issue, unfortunately I don't use Linux so don't think I can be of much help there. I know I've had issue before where the interface and windows were both set to a different rate (44.1 / 48) and it caused all sorts of serious sound issues. Hope you figure it out, when I can't figure out an issue with my music setup it drives me nuts!
I said free healthcare at the point of use, not free healthcare. And it's nothing like your US systems, I was personally charged £0 for my emergency appendictomy surgery, £0 for the ambulance ride, and £0 for the hospital stay.
This I think is a key part of misunderstandings... I'm not trying to protect capitalism, I'm trying to be realistic in how we go about modifying society towards more socialist goals. We're not going to upend the global capitalist systems in our lifetime, I don't think. And imo things are going to get worse before they get better, as wealth continues to be concentrated in fewer hands, as productivity increases due to further automation. I hope the tipping point isn't something that causes massive loss of life, like the collapse of civilisation.
It's like... imagine you have a lake filled with crocodiles, sharks, and jellyfish. We need to get to the other side. Wanting to get there isn't enough, we need a solution. We can just keep endlessly pushing people in expecting them to somehow cross the lake (trying to 'destroy' capitalism), or we can build a bridge across (slowly modify capitalism to have strongs checks and balances). Anyway it's just my personal opinion, I stand by it
This sounds very much like the problems I had recently with two different brand new interfaces, trying to connect over USB-C. Fortunately they were both bundled with a C-to-A USB cable, which had them both working perfectly.
Over USB-C it was disto city, like when a cable is half-unplugged. I thought maybe it was something to do with the type of USB-C ports my laptop has (one is thunderbolt, one is dual-C / thunderbolt). What sort of cable are you using?
You can have socialist policies without being a socialist society. Our (UK) NHS is a socialist policy, free healthcare at the point of use. My country is decidedly not socialist!
I'm not from USA, but from the outside in, it's pretty obvious what Biden can, and can't do. You have to take his achievements (which there are many of, unfortunately the dems don't seem to be very good at trumpeting their actual good works) with the pinch of salt that they haven't had the control in the senate they need to enact the policies they like. Enough people vote for 3rd party or feel fatigued / despondant like you, that they didn't get the actual control of senate, and lost the house in midterms.
Whether it's slow walking (or blocking) appointments, fake dems like Sinema, dems that have to be stupid-capitalist to maintain power (Manchin), they've just not had the numbers.
I'm lower-left quadrant but always cop a fair amount of shit from others on 'the left' (nebulous term though it is) for my feelings on capitalism. The people I speak to have never seen anything but corruption, and have a combo of zero faith and utter hatred for it.
My personal feelings are that with strong, enforced checks & balances, capitalism can be combined with socialist policies to create a fantastic standard of living (see Norway), without it becoming cancerous. Unfortunately most of our western political systems (and capitalism is strongly influenced by political systems) seem to be run on a wink and a nudge, an assumed sense of 'fair play' which we all know has been shown to be worthless in recent years.
Strong unions; an educated populace; politicians who actually give a shit; this is what we need. But, capitalism has an absolute stranglehold on the populace of most western countries via print / tv media. The foxes are in charge of the henhouse and the hens are getting shit on.
In Austria and Germany (as far as I’m aware, I’m not a lawyer) when it’s criminal charges the state sues
To follow on from my previous comment... I'm sure you've seen multiple cases in your own country where the police / courts decline to charge or prosecute someone based on lack of physical evidence
She will almost certainly find it very, very hard to prove the offence. Police and courts are usually reluctant to prosecute something on a 'he said, she said' basis. I can see why she'd not go down the police route with that, without even taking into account the massive power imbalance in terms of wealth / influence
Interesting, I didn't know that. Thanks