“However, when analysing this system, we came to the conclusion that Katyusha is a kind of Potemkin’s village (is a construction whose purpose is to provide an external façade to a situation, to make people believe that the situation is better than it is - ed.). Obviously, the Russian Defence Ministry’s DIMC uses it for reporting purposes.”
That would explain some things…
Zorin
Not sure if I’d trust an OS named like a Bond villain.
Just use your media corporations
Exactly. It’s easier for smaller NGOs to do political lobbying since they don’t have any media corporations available.
If you take that away, you’re basically left with big actors and social media.
corporations with big pockets have more possibilities to influence than regular people, or even NGOs
I guess nowadays it’s cheaper to target social media and let the voters + traditional media do the lobbying.
license is probably the reason they’re doing it. no way around that without infringing copyright law I guess.
you could check how other FOSS do it. e.g. you externally link it as a library and use another license the user has to agree on just for that.
What are you trying to prevent? You can’t release anything (opensource or not) without risking someone stealing the idea without patenting.
No FOSS license will prevent that (quite the opposite, it encourages copying/modifications). Those licenses just prevent someone using your code commercially without releasing the source code again.
not sure why you think that. if it’s indistinguishable, it’s still prior art. If it’s something better or different than your code, it’s a new thing.
Patents protect technical principles, not actual sourcecode.
no, the patent office would find your publication, deem it Prior Art and not grant the patent. If it would miss it (some don’t research very well), anyone can notify them to void the patent afterwards anytime.
IANAL, there are lawyers specialized on patents who’ll reassure you for free/cheap (relatively, they are friggin expensive). It also depends on legislature. Countries that break/never agreed to the PCT will do what they please.
NAL but my understanding always was, that you can’t patent anything in your name, when it’s already published.
That would make any patent related clause void anyway.
You could do some automated/scripted installation VM-image builder thingy and release that. Would probably also save some manual work for you. (bash script fetching install image & run qemu, autounattend.xml, etc. all nicely released on github.) And it’d be auditable.
that’d be an awesome way to spread malware with some VM evasion.
not sure if any 3rd-party windows install should ever be trusted. no matter what usecase.
What’s surprising? You can basically poke a hole in any living thing and goo will drip out if the hole is large enough.
OP pointed out the fascinating specialty of complete transformation with an intermediate liquid state.
much more important: we’d be years ahead with storage technology.
Secret ballot is not a prerequisite for a democratic process.
What? Of course it is. Hence: “The secret ballot became commonplace for individual citizens in liberal democracies worldwide by the late 20th century.”.
The UK has numbered ballots
secret != anonymous … OPs argument mainly dismissed confidentiality.
But we don’t claim their voting process is undemocratic.
we certainly would if no one checked the number of people simultaniously using a voting booth.
I never assumed this.
Sorry, didn’t mean to imply that. I meant OPs argument.
Nigeria
It’s not a democratic process then by definition.
mail-in votes technically don’t meet the criteria
Now that’s a valid point. But how bold to assume, the vote was lost because men forced their women to use mail-in. In reality, reasons are much more complex.
It doesn’t need to be constitutional, a simple law is enough.
Sure, if this was some kind of joke poll ignoring the most basic rules of democratic voting, I’ll stand corrected.
Of course they did. Did you ever vote?
How do you think that goes? “Hey you! Only one per booth! Oh, it’s a man. Is it your husband? Oh, I see your marriage certificate. Then it’s all fine.” for millions of couples? Come on…
You might want to check your facts.
How would the husband check? Voting is strictly secret punishable by law. It’s next to impossible to check what your wife actually put on the ballot. For a reason…
That was also the time where some classic tunes were created…