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Apple hopes that macOS Sierra will bring in a rush to the Mac, too. First off, we should note that the name has changed (to protect the innocent?) from OS X 10.12 to macOS Sierra. I like the name change but it certainly pales next to the improvements in the operating system for Mac.
If you have a Mac that is older than 2009 you might want to turn out, or better yet come in for an upgrade because macOS Sierra will only run on late 2009 Macs or newer. It will be free when it comes out this fall and there will be a public beta program in July that you can sign up for at beta.apple.com.
Hello Siri!
What's new? Let's start with Siri. Siri finally comes to the Mac! Ask Siri to send messages, search the web, find files, adjust settings, and more. You can also drag and drop, copy, or pin Siri results. Siri will even turn down your Mac's fan when activated to minimize microphone interference. I have just started to play with Siri on the Mac but it is a little weird talking to my Mac in the middle of our open office. I feel a little bit like Scotty in Star Trek talking to the mouse of a Mac Plus.
Have you ever found an interesting article or picture on your iPad and wanted to include it in something you are working on your Mac? Well, that just got a lot easier with Universal Clipboard. Copy and paste now works across your devices when they're near each other. There are no special instructions, just copy images, video, or text from an app on one device. Then paste into another app on a different device.
Are you reaching the limits of your storage? With all the rich media, apps, pictures and music this is a pretty common issue. We recommend that you leave 10-20% of your storage space clear but finding what to delete is always a challenge. Apple has now addressed that with Optimized Storage. Optimized Storage helps you make more room on your Mac. When space is low, it automatically stores old files, photos, movies, and email attachments in the cloud and makes them available on demand. Files you recently created and optimized photos stay on your Mac so they're there when you need them. You can also easily find and remove files or apps. I am running the beta of macOS Sierra and my free space went up from about 25GB to over 150GB once my storage was optimized
How many times have you found yourself logging into your Mac and accidentally had the caps lock on and had to re-enter your password? Well, if you have an Apple Watch you will never have THAT problem again. When you walk up to your Mac while wearing your Apple Watch, you'll be automatically logged in to your desktop. Because you authenticate your Apple Watch when you put it on, there's no need to type in a password if you're nearby.
Apple Pay gives you an easier and more secure way to pay when shopping online in Safari. When you see the Apple Pay button on participating websites, simply click it at checkout on your Mac, then securely complete your purchase using your iPhone or Apple Watch.
I know that not everyone uses tabs in Safari or Chrome but most of you do. It is a great way to have multiple web sites open at once without cluttering your desktop. macOS Sierra brings tabs to other apps now. It works in Pages and a few other apps now but should be pretty universal by the time macOS Sierra comes out in the fall. I was a bit baffled at how to access it but then I noticed a new command under the "Window" menu item – Merge All Windows.
This time of the year I like to watch the Cubs day games while I am working. That's the thing about watching baseball, you don't have to pay too close attention. At any rate, with macOS Sierra I can now have a floating PIP window with the game while I work on spreadsheets or in our K9 database. You can float a video window from Safari or iTunes over your desktop or a full-screen app. Play the video in any corner of your desktop, and resize the window to see more or less of what's behind it. It currently only works with some video sources (and unfortunately not with MLB Team Pass) but more will certainly be added.
Ever been in a meeting and needed that document from your Mac but you just have your iPad with you? With the new enhancements to iCloud Drive in macOS Sierra it will be no problem. Now you can store your Documents folder and Desktop in iCloud Drive and access all your files from your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or PC and on iCloud.com. So you can save files where you normally do and they're automatically uploaded, with no need to drag them into iCloud Drive first.
And MORE!
Photos has been upgraded with new organization and search capabilities, iTunes has been upgraded including lyrics in the mini player, new Emojis and fun stuff in Messages and much more that we will talk about in Kibbles as we discover more of the features.]]>
Some people have argued that QWERTY is an inefficient layout. Since QWERTY was originally created for typewriters, the keys are optimized for them. However, typewriters work differently from computers. Typewriters have physical mechanisms to print each letter onto the paper. If certain keys are typed too quickly after each other, the mechanisms can collide and cause a jam. The QWERTY layout was designed to prevent this as much as possible, by placing keys that are commonly typed together far away from each other. This helps to prevent jams in typewriters, but can be inefficient for typing on a computer, where key jams are not a possibility.
The leading rival to QWERTY is the Dvorak layout, patented in 1936 by Dr. August Dvorak. The Dvorak layout was designed to eliminate the inefficiencies that plagued QWERTY. Dvorak was scientifically designed to enable faster typing, reduce errors, and reduce strain-related injuries. There have been studies confirming these claims, but many of these studies were administered by Dvorak and his associates. There were also some flaws discovered in the methodologies of the studies. Some non-biased studies have been inconclusive for various reasons, but most seem to at least agree that Dvorak is significantly easier to learn to type with than QWERTY.
At this point, the main obstacle to adoption of a non-standard keyboard layout is the fact virtually all typists are already used to the QWERTY layout. Once again, tradition prevails over innovation.]]>
In 2013 Small Dog became the only company authorized to sell iPads in Vermont with Medicaid accepted as payment. These orders come in the form of authorizations from Medicaid as prescribed by speech and language pathologists (SLP) across the state. For right now the iPad is only approved by Medicaid as a speaking device, however; there are programs in place looking to expand the uses to other people with disabilities, these include blind and vision impaired, hearing impaired, autism spectrum and more.
In addition to Medicaid we also work closely with Vermont Assistive Technology (VAT), which is a state government agency tasked with cataloging all the items that fall in this very broad category. They provide consulting, information, demonstration and a 30-day trial period to the public. As of today they have catalogued over 21,000 items.
VAT recently reached out to me and asked if Small Dog would take on a role to offer more products and support services in this area as they do not have the resources or budget to do so. Naturally, we said YES! This is a great opportunity for Small Dog Electronics to expand into this field and offer some unique products that truly can change the end-users lives considerably. Having worked with Medicaid for the last several years we have found that procuring the items needed is very difficult. There is no central distribution for these products as many are manufactured by small businesses that specialize in very specific areas. Working with VAT we will strive to offer as many of these products and services that are attainable and make sense.
Some examples of products we have recently sold are the RJ Cooper Magic Arm. This is a wheelchair or desk-mounted iPad solution that allows a nonverbal person to communicate their needs through the iPad. The App we used for this solution is
The Tecla Shield gives those with limited upper body mobility (due to disability or disease) access to their touchscreen devices. Tecla makes it possible to use iOS and Android smartphones and tablets, as well as computers. All are accessible via assistive buttons, switches or wheelchair driving controls. You can see a video of this here
With VAT listing over 21,000 products there is a vast array of products offered to assist people with all sorts of disabilities. Examples of some of the devices available are large print keyboards for the visually impaired, antimicrobial cases for hospitals and caregivers, computer, tablet and display mounts, rugged cases with built in speakers, keyguards for iPads, smart pens for dictation, head pointers, cameras that replace the need for a mouse and more. Another area of focus will be Apple's Home Kit. The hardware and software taking advantage of this solution are a perfect fit for those with limited mobility and control. We will be able to design a home setting that reacts to the end users needs without having to move around more then needed.
Small Dog Electronics has identified assistive technology as an important area for our company to refine and specialize our offerings. Don has asked me to head up this initiative for the company and I am thrilled to be able to find tools that will make life easier for so many people. This is really a situation where new technology can make a real difference in these lives. If you want more information or have suggestions, I urge you to write me directly, email@example.com.]]>
The Session fills out GoPro's current product portfolio to six models as the company attempts to continue to lead the market for point-of-view cameras, also known as action cams. These cameras are increasingly used to capture video from the likes of surfers, skydivers, snowboarders, drivers, cyclists and even drones in the the most extreme situations. Here in the Florida Keys GoPro is popular with the local community and tourists alike.
The Session has a new cube-shape form factor that distinguishes it from its earlier, more rectangular GoPro siblings such as the Hero4, Silver and Black. It's also much lighter than those models and that square shape, included mounting frames and quick-release buckles, let you rotate the camera so it's right-side up and lower profile, something that's not easily done with other GoPro cameras. Another Session difference is that it's waterproof down to 10 meters (33 feet) without the need for an enclosure. By contrast, the Hero4 Silver and Black are almost twice as bulky when snapped into the wraparound housings that are required to keep them dry. You might think having to use a housing isn't the end of the world and it's not, but there have been several times when I've needed my GoPro to be waterproof and didn't have the case. I've wanted better audio, but only had the completely sealed waterproof back. The Session's waterproof build solves this. Also, the housings for other Hero models only have one mounting point on the bottom. The included frames are included for mounting the Session take advantage of the camera's cube design. This means that no matter how you attach the frame's mounts, to the top, bottom, left or right, you just position the camera in the frame so it's right-side up. If you have to mount it upside down, the camera will automatically flip the video 180 degrees when you start recording.
Come into our stores and check out all of our GoPro camera's in stock and our huge selection of accessories!]]>
With just this minor update to the MacBook Air we can speculate that perhaps this unit is on its way out within the next year. The MacBook Air does not have the Retina display nor does it support the latest in Intel mobile processors. On the other hand, it is Apple's best selling laptop.
The changes to the MacBook were more significant. They added a Rose Gold (er…pink) color which might actually be a nice option for some. More importantly, Apple went to the new sixth-generation dual-core Intel Core M processors which run at clock speeds up to 1.3 gigahertz, with Turbo Boost up to 3.1 gigahertz. The revamped notebooks also feature faster 1866 megahertz memory.
This new processor yields increases in performance from 15-20% in initial testing. With the Intel HD Graphics 515, the new MacBook has about 25 percent faster graphics performance. Speed has also been enhance with new, faster PCIe-based flash storage.
The lower power requirements and a slightly larger battery has also improved battery life, with the Apple claiming the new MacBook offers up to 10 hours of wireless surfing and up to 11 hours of movie watching.
While some were expecting additional ports or an improved FaceTime camera, these features did not make the cut.
We should have all the models in stock next week as well as some great deals on the newly discontinued models.]]>
Make Relationships with Siri
When you speak Siri commands, you can refer to people by relationship, rather than name. So, if you want to call your father, you can say "call my father" instead of saying "call Bruce Leibowitz." But to do this, you need to introduce Siri to your family. First, make sure you have a "card" in the Contacts app for yourself, and then go into Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars, scroll down to find and tap My Info, and select your card. Next, make sure you have a contact card for your father, and then tell Siri, "Bruce Leibowitz is my father." Or, if Siri doesn't hear you correctly, open Contacts, edit your card (not your father's!), scroll down, tap "add related name," tap the default relationship to pick "father," tap the info "i" icon, select your father's card, and tap Done.
You can even use Siri to remember other types of relationships. Artie used to bring manure from his uncle's farm for my garden and ended up with the nickname, "the spreader". If I tell Siri "Art Hendrickson is my spreader" I can now just say "text my spreader…" and Siri knows who I am talking about. This works for nicknames but also for lawyers, accountants, doctors or any nickname you want to tell Siri about.
Take a Picture
Instead of fumbling to launch the Camera app on your iPhone you can just say "take a picture" and Siri will automatically open the Camera app and you can snap away.
Siri Converts
Need to know how many millimeters are in 4 inches? Just ask Siri and you will find that there are 101.6 mm in 4 inches. This works for currency exchange rates, too. Ask Siri how many Euros are equal to $100US you will find that 87.73 Euros is the exchange rate today. Siri has some other strong calculation features too. You can ask Siri how many calories there are in that fish sandwich or to calculate a 20% tip on your restaurant bill. You can ask her to solve math problems involving fractions and other math functions that will be faster than opening the calculator app and punching in the numbers.
Settling Up
Okay you can use Siri to look up baseball stats or other information to settle a dispute but what if you are at loggerheads and just want to get a random answer and don't have a coin to flip. You can ask Siri to "roll the dice", "flip a coin" or pick a random number.
Name that Tune
Siri is integrated with Shazam to help you figure out what song is playing. Just ask her "what song is playing?" and she will listen and let you know and probably try to sell you the song, too!
Find that Photo
Siri can search your photo library for you. I know how frustrating it is if your are like me and have literally thousands of photos. You can say something like "find that photo from Daytona Beach from last March" and Siri will launch Photos and take you right to any photos taken at that place and time.
Siri Takes You Out
Siri can make your restaurant reservations for you, too! Tell Siri "make a restaurant reservation for four at 7PM" and she will respond with available restaurants nearby and if you have the Open Table app installed can make the reservation for you or give you the phone number to call.
Are We There Yet?
If you are using your iPhone for navigation you can just say "ETA" and Siri will let you know how much longer you are gonna be on the road.
Leave Me Alone
Siri can do a lot for you but sometimes you just want alone time. You can tell Siri to turn on "do not disturb" and you will not be bothered. Or tell her to "turn on airplane mode" and she will turn off Wi-Fi and cellular signals.
So when I started hearing rumors about what would be included in the latest iOS 9.3 update, I was immediately pretty excited. Now that it was released earlier this week, I'll go over the new features here and give my impressions.
Night Shift
Admittedly, this was the most interesting thing to me. I hear a lot of complaining (from my mom mostly) about how I shouldn't be reading/watching movies/web browsing in bed on my iPad. Most modern displays, especially on mobile devices are notoriously "cool" meaning they tend to be towards the blue end of the color spectrum. This helps the displays to be brighter in direct sunlight, and also more vibrant, but if you're in the dark, getting ready for bed, it's not so great. The brightness and the "cool" tint sends signals to your brain that mimic sunlight. It's basically telling your brain, "hey, the sun's up, it's time to get active." Night Shift helps to correct that problem. It re-tunes the display to exaggerate "warmer" tones in the spectrum like red and orange. With iOS 9.3, you can turn it on manually, or on a schedule. You can also specify how much or how little "warmth" you want to use. It looks weird at first, but after as little as 15-30 seconds, you'll adjust and won't be able to tell the difference.
I'll admit I've started using Notes a lot now that you can have checklists, formatting, drawing and more. In iOS 9.3 Apple added secure notes. You can secure notes using a password or Touch ID. This is great if you have some confidential information you want doubly protected both by your device's PIN and Notes itself. I haven't had a use case for this yet, but I expect I will very soon.
I think Night Shift and secure Notes are the most notable changes in iOS 9.3 for me, but other additions included improved personalization in the News app, more information about third party apps in the Health app, and additional 3D Touch context menus. I'm particularly fond of the menu on the Settings app which allows me to quickly jump to bluetooth, wifi, or battery settings in one quick motion.
One last thing to note is that the Night Shift feature isn't available on every single device. While it is supported all the way back to the iPad 4th generation, the original iPad mini does not support it. The performance of the original iPad mini isn't quite enough to allow for Night Shift without reducing performance and stability on the rest of the device.
Overall, I definitely give iOS 9.3 my seal of approval.]]>
I got my start in using computers with CPM operating system and keyboard shortcuts were present there. I used them all the time so they come as second nature to me. But as I go out and talk with customers and help them with their Macs, I am surprised by the number of people that do not know that most of the things you can do with your mouse by clicking on a menu item can be done faster with keyboard shortcuts.
The first thing to learn about shortcuts are the symbols that are used to show these keys.
Command ⌘
Shift ⇧
Option ⌥
Control ⌃
Caps Lock ⇪
These work for your Mac Keyboard but if you are using a keyboard made for a Windows machine you need to substitute the Windows logo for the Command key and the Alt key for the option key. When you look at a menu in almost any application you will find the common commands for all these symbols next to them to indicate the keyboard shortcut. Here are some common ones:
Command-X Cut Remove the selected item
Command-C Copy the selected item
Command-V Paste the contents
Command-Z Undo the previous command
Command-A Select all items
Command-F Find open a Find window
Command-G Find Again Find the next occurrence of the item previously found
Command-H Hide the windows of the front app.
Command-M Minimize the front window to the dock
Command-M New Open a new document or window
Command-P Print the current document
Command-Space bar Spotlight show or hide the spotlight search field
Command-Tab Switch apps switch to the next most recently used app
Command-shift-3 Screenshot take a screenshot of the entire screen
As you can see, there are endless keyboard shortcuts to use, and these are only a small fraction of what you can do with keyboard shortcuts. So the next time you find yourself wondering what you can do if your mouse suddenly stops working or if your just looking for a more efficient way to do something, keyboard shortcuts might just be what your looking for!]]>
Does this sound familiar? In the perfect world we would only need one password, but unfortunately for security purposes and as hackers get better at what they do password strength has become critical and part of our everyday lives. The hassle with this is that most sites have their own sets of rules for password strength leaving many of us to peck away at our keyboards or devices in a sometimes endless game of "remember how you manipulated your favorite password 16 different ways and can't remember if your banking site used the password with the capitalization or the one with the ampersand".
For a very long time I will admit my method of keeping track of my usernames and passwords was the stickies program on my Mac, much to the dismay of our IT manager! While stickies are easily accessed they are not secure and I do not recommend this method. Where you should keep them is in your keychain. You can access your keychain through applications and then utilities. Once you are in your keychain you can manually add preferred sites, accounts and passwords you wish to store. Another huge benefit is secure notes. Secure notes allow you store additional confidential information. Keychain is safe and secure because in order to view any of the passwords stored there you need to enter your administrator password. Within keychain you can make sure to safely and securely keep your passwords, and when you forget if you needed that capitalization or ampersand in your password you can simply open keychain and enter into the search field the website for which you need to confirm the password.
Now what if you don't have a mac? The loss of passwords, and most often your Apple ID password is a huge concern with users of iOS devices only. Luckily there is an easy solution for that, iCloud and iCloud keychain. Simply go to settings, iCloud and then select keychain. Your iOS device will begin to store your logins and websites. Additionally you can add specific websites and passwords manually to your phone or iPad under safari and then selecting passwords. This is also where you would look if you can't remember login information.
Recording safely your logins and passwords is an often overlooked step, especially when users of iOS devices accidentally have the device damaged or lost. Saving your passwords safely and using iCloud keychain can avert your being logged out of accounts.]]>
Frequently a Mac-to-Mac data transfer can be done without any special equipment or advanced knowledge. The easiest way is to use Apple's Migration Assistant which is a program built into OS X, and is on every new Mac. When setting up a new Mac (or any Mac that's been reset to factory settings, generally from the disk being wiped and the OS being reinstalled) it'll prompt you to make a decision.
The top option is to transfer data from a start up disk or Time Machine backup. If you're already doing a Time Machine backup to an external HDD this is the best option, just make sure your backup is completely up to date. If it's behind, any changes you've made won't show up on your new machine when the transfer completes. Once you've identified the drive you want the data to come from it goes through and calculates the sizes of everything on that older drive. You've got a little control of what comes over, like whether or not you want the entire Applications folder, but nothing more specific than that. It'll also tell you how much available space will be left over, or if there's more data on the source drive than the destination.
I recommend using a Time Machine backup drive (any external HDD that has a Time Machine backup on it) because it'll be useful for backups on the new machine. It'll even see that it's a new machine that has all the same data and ask if you want to keep using the same Time Machine backup; this is call inheriting.
Alternatively, you can put the source machine into Target Disk Mode by pressing the T key when the machine is booting and having it connected to the destination machine through Thunderbolt or FireWire. Target disk mode only works through Thunderbolt and FireWire, don't bother trying anything else. I've wasted enough time for us all: it's not supported. If you're transferring data from a machine with FireWire but no Thunderbolt to a new Mac that only has Thunderbolt you can get a Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter, but that'll run you $30 and you might not have another use for it after the data migration. You could also use a Thunderbolt cable, but that'll also run you at least $30, and again, you might not have another use for it, that's why I recommend an external HDD. If you're not doing a backup, it's worth the peace of mind, and simplifies data transfers.]]>


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"The brutal fact is, when it comes to education, America is slipping" behind other nations.
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An exaggerated claim
President Obama's "budget would call for about $25 trillion in debt by the end of his term, if he was re-elected."
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on Monday, March 5th, 2012
Mislabels a statistic
"Under Gov. Rick Perry's leadership [Texas] has created more jobs over the last decade than the rest of the states combined."
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Guv exaggerates actual cuts
"When I took office last year we faced historic budget deficits of $6 billion here in Virginia. And we closed those deficits by cutting spending."
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on Saturday, April 9th, 2011
Has no data to prove his claim
Road construction bids "are coming in at the lowest in the modern era."
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Governor's numbers don't add up
"It is estimated that every $100 million spent on construction generates 3,000 new jobs."
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Skip to comments.Lincoln and the 'Ghost Amendment'
Posted on 10/25/2006 6:33:20 AM PDT by 300magnum
In the delicate days before the Civil War, Congress proposed a 13th amendment that would have prohibited Washington from interfering with slavery in states where it existed.
It was one of many last-ditch efforts to avert war and stem the tide of southern states seceding.
The amendment, known as the "ghost amendment," was signed by President James Buchanan and left for the new president, Abraham Lincoln, to send to governors for their legislatures to ratify.
Lincoln dutifully did so, sending North Carolina's copy to Gov. John Ellis with a cover letter that didn't endorse or oppose the constitutional amendment.
Last week, 145 years later, editors of Lincoln's papers discovered it among Ellis' documents in the state archives in Raleigh.
It will be on display today at the archives, then will be placed into a vault with other important documents.
"We had two documents with Lincoln's signature, but were surprised and obviously delighted to discover we have a third," said Jeffrey Crow, deputy secretary of archives and history. "Lincoln doesn't say yea, or nay, but it is clearly a part of a larger effort to try to prevent civil war. He didn't make emancipation of the slaves a goal of the war until late 1862."
Crow calls the rare and valuable document the "evil twin" of the 13th amendment that abolished slavery in 1865.
But its intention was consistent with the Republican Party's platform of 1860 and what Lincoln said on the campaign trail, said Daniel Stowell, editor and director of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Ill.
"Lincoln and the Republicans had no intention of interfering with slavery in states where it existed," Stowell said. "They wanted to prevent the spread of slavery into the new territories."
Needing three-quarters of the states to ratify, the proposed amendment was approved by only two states before the war began -- and it was forgotten.
It was likely pitched out by governors whose states had seceded.
Yet with North Carolina still considering secession, Ellis hung onto his.
Stowell and colleague Kelley Boston have spent two years scouring archives across the country for Lincoln's papers. They routinely go through the papers of governors.
Ellis' copy is the fifth they've found, with the signatures of Lincoln and Secretary of State William Seward.
Ellis was in his second term when the letter arrived. In February, N.C. voters had defeated a referendum for a secession convention.
But after Confederates fired on Fort Sumter in April, Ellis became known for one of the most famous quotes of the early Civil War.
After Lincoln called for two N.C. regiments to help throw down the rebellion, Ellis responded: "You can get no troops from North Carolina."
On May 20, the state seceded.
"This is certainly one of our most important documents, if just for Lincoln's signature," Crow said.
"And to think we didn't even know we had it. That was a big discovery."
This was curious to me. I didn't think Article 5 of the Constitution required the President to sign amendments proposed by two-thirds of Congress.
Republican Endorses Slavery!
Things just keep getting curiouser and curioser.
Nice thread hijacking tc ...
Question for liberal lurkers: You call Islam a "religion of peace" yet the Quran openly endorses violence against those beliefs that disagree. How do you resolve the two?
The slave debate in 2006 isn't likely to get anyone killed after all...
yes, but the passage that you are talking about that Paul wrote also instructs slave masters to be kind, and humane-christ-like with their slaves..
(In the old south this was not always the case..).
The slavery referred to in the Bible bears little resemblance to the chattel slavery that Islam brought to Africa and Europe. Slavery in ancient Israel was more like a form of indenture; people could sell themselves into a seven year contract at the end of which they could renew or go free. Their masters were not their owners. The "slaves" in Biblical times were primarily people who sold themselves, criminals and prisoners of war.
IIRC the rules about slavery are spelled out in Leviticus.
My intent was not to discuss slavery as an issue but rather to discuss changing moral perceptions and how that impacts our views of issues.
However, agreed, Biblical slavery was different that abject or Roman slavery. However, the "kinder gentle slavery" of which you are referring to existed in law towards the Hebrews in general. It did not include foreign slaves who could be bought and kept as life long slaves and even inherited by the owner's children. But again, my intent was not to discuss slavery but moral perceptions and how that impacts our laws and voting habits.
I,beg to disagree slavery was (and still is) a matter of economics -- money, mullah, cash, dough, bread, and wampum, to use a little Indian lingo. What ultimately ended slavery was the Age of the Machine. Look around the world: the places where you find human slavery are among the least industrialized.
I've always thought of the Old Testament provisions for slavery as falling in the same category as those for divorce. In the New Testament, Jesus puts forward a more restrictive view of divorce than is found in the Old Testament:
"Why then," they asked, "did Moses command [Editorial: he didn't. He allowed it] that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?"
Jesus replied, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery."" Matthew 19:7-9
Moreover, we know that God hated divorce before: ""I hate divorce," says the LORD God of Israel" Malachi 2:6a.
So, from these passages, we knew that God permitted Israel to do things that he loathed because their hearts were hard. I would like to put forward that slavery is the same way.
"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." Genesis 1:27.
That man was created in God's image, seemed to have been regarded as important by God in other places like: "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man." Genesis 9:6
This passage seems to be saying that part of what makes murder as despicable as it is, is the fact that the act was done on an image of God. Or, something like burning an effigy of God. So, if we take this principle and apply it further, how could you put in chains an effigy of God?
Besides all of that, I would like to offer one final remark: "So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets." Matthew 7:12. I believe obedience to that law alone would prevent the vast majority from becoming slave owners.
Yet in the Bible, slavery is not only practice, but slaves were instructed to obey their masters
Yes, he did. The rule Christians are given in the New Testament is, more or less, "obey the authorities, unless commanded to do something contrary to God's law".
"Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God." Romans 13:1
slavery was COMMANDED by God.
Only has a punishment and that was only temporary (they were commanded to let fellow Israelites go free after seven years).
If we are now free to "reinterpret" the moral teachings of the Bible, isn't is now also possible for us to alter our positions on other moral issues?
Under the new covenant, the only laws that were altered were those that pertained to the ceremonial and to the temple worship. The moral law has never changed.
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever" Hebrews 13:8
"The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever." Isaiah 40:8
You are right, and Lincoln went after the economics of the South, which was less industrialized then the North.
Morality does not change just because time does.
Lincoln went after nothing except to preserve the Union against a rebellion alarmed that slavery was going to be limited and the slave interest would no longer have the preponderance of power. Chaos would erupt if sections seceded every time an election came up whose results they didn't like.
"Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him."
Doesn't sound at all like the practice in the land of the bloodhound. Like many, the Southern slave apologists were adept at examining only those portions of the Bible that they thought supported their selfish agenda.
Please see my post 13. I did not raise the question to debate slavery, rather people's changing views of morality. Remember, both of the two amendments were offered within a few short years.
The Democraps hae done an excellent job of convincing blacks that the Republicans are the "Anti Black"/ RACIST party!
Huh? How about illegal tariffs instead. Slavery was a minor issue compared to what else was going on. Apparently you got the washed version of history along the way. It's about the money, it's always about the money.
Again, over slavery? It's the economics. It's the money!!! If California secedes due to a moral issue it will be nothing like the issues in the Civil War. Although slavery was an issue it was minor.
Lincoln knew that if four million slaves were released, they could then be able to help the progress in the North.
Booth wanted to kill Lincoln when Lincoln advocated going one step further after the war and proposed giving the slaves the right to vote.
Lincoln's proprosals progressed as his own views changed.
Inadvertently. As the article states, Lincoln had no intention of interfering with slavery (or the economics) of the states where it then existed. He, and a majority of the nation in 1860, simply opposed the extension of slavery into the then rapidly developing western territories. They opposed it for various reasons ranging from moral to completely self interested.
It is likely that Lincoln did not fully understand that blocking expansion of slavery was indeed an serious threat to the Southern "economy." Contrary to conventional wisdom that Cotton was the source of wealth for the south, the actual wealth was really embodied in the value of slave property. That slave property (4 million by 1860) had a total value greater than all of the land and equipment in the South. Slaves were a resource that could be bought, sold, speculated on, or used as collateral. And they reproduced at a much faster rate than the white population of the south, making owners wealthier with every birth. The slave population of the south doubled in size every 25 years.
Slave wealth was secure only as long as the demand for slaves continued to rise. If the demand ever slowed, or supply overwhelmed demand, the value of all slaves would rapidly collapse and along with it, the Southern economy.
For that reason, the South had a vested interest in opening new lands and markets for slaves. If unable to do so, they faced economic ruin, and few outside the handful of major slave owners who forced secession understood that simple fact.
I see no evidence in the records of freed blacks heading north to "help" in any way in the decades after the Civil War. The North had an abudance or labor available due to immigration from Europe. It was not until WWI when immigration all but shut down when sizable numbers of blacks moved north for factory jobs, a trend that grew even greater during WWII.
I disagree. The South had enough wealth to survive with the trading partners outside the US. It was the North that decided they were losing money to these trading partners and the South should be exclusively trading with them. Slavery was a minor issue.
First, you confuse income with wealth. The two are not the same.
Trade with Europe (and the North) was a source of income for the Cotton states, but it was not a source of wealth. Cotton was a cash crop and income in any given year could and did fluctuate wildly based on crop yields and the market price for cotton. In most years, the South was cash poor which is why they relied on New York and London banks to see them through the next planting season. But that was not a problem since they had wealth.
The main store of wealth to use a collateral was in the form of slaves --- more than the value of all the land holdings and machinery in the South combined. There are numerous, heartbreaking stories of families being broken apart when plantation owners who had to sell their slaves to pay off debt. But they could do it because for a 40 year period from 1820 to 1860, the value of slaves continually rose as the market for slaves grew in the Gulf Coast states. By 1860, King Cotton had just about reached it's geographical limits in the US, yet the slave population continued to grow --- basically doubling every generation. Without new markets for slaves, they would soon be facing an oversupply slave labor causing the market for slaves to collapse and also a potentially dangerous social problem of the southern white population being hopelessly outnumbered throughout the cotton belt. They needed new markets for slaves or they faced eventual ruin.
As to somehow the North losing money because the South traded with Europe, can you please explain how? I simply don't see the connection. The North was doing quite well with a mostly internal market in the decades before the war. Railroad growth in the North was spectacular allowing Midwestern crops low cost access to the big cities of the East. Industrialization was beginning in earnest (which is why states like Pennsylvania favored protective tariffs.) Population was growing far faster than the white population of the south and immigrants easily supplied the additional labor necessary for growth. But through it all, nothing that I am aware of that the South was doing hurt or stifled the Northern economy. The South was in fact a good market for both Northern manufactured goods and Midwestern crops in addition to being serious debtors to the big banks of the East. I can't see why the North would have gained any advantage in harming the Southern economy. If you know of something, please explain.
What's illegal about the tariff?
Slavery was a minor issue compared to what else was going on.
And yet it was pretty much the only issue that the Declarations of Causes issued by the seceding states talked about. Hardly a mention of tariffs among them, but lots of talk about slavery. And when South Carolina issued its appeal to the other southern states to join them in secession, it wasn't addressed to the tariff-affected states, but to the "slaveholding states."
Frankly, just general study of the conditions that lead to the Civil War. I am a "buff" of sorts, but unlike many who study the battles and tactics, I have been more interested in the political, social and economic issues that lead the nation to civil war.
I can document each of my points but it would be weeks of study for you to understand the demographics and economic drivers of the sections.
If your care, I can start sending you links.
If there is anything the the Democrat party has excelled at, it is in playing the race card. From the 1840s until the 1960s they dealt the race card from one side of the deck, but once black Americans finally won the right to vote in every state, the Democrats moved seamlessly to dealing the race card from the other side of the deck. Their PR division in the MSM never noted the change.
But from a moral standpoint, what they do today is no different than the politics used by John C. Calhoon and Jefferson Davis.
But what Lincoln accomplished was an end to slavery. Quite an accomplishment indeed.
The statement that Buchanan "signed" the Ghost Amendment is news to me. However, Lincoln did in fact "sign" the actual 13th Amendment abolishing slavery even though the Constitution did not require it and he had no business "signing" it.
Me too. I don't know that it is wrong, but that "original" 13th was nothing but a Hail Mary pass trying to avert war. It never had a chance of ratification mostly because the political leaders of the Deep South were intent on secession and had been since the early 1850s. Their was no chance of compromise with them.
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A capacitor blocks DC, so it can be used to pass a signal (e.g. audio, etc) without it's DC level interfering with the DC bias of a transistor. This way the DC offset of the input signal can be at any level and the transistor amplifier will treat it the same way.
For example, if you have one transistor with it's collector output at a DC level of 5V, and the next transistor stage has it's base biased around 1V, directly connecting them would turn the second stage full on all the time as the input voltage will always be too high.
Take this simple circuit as an example:
Here are the waveforms at the various points:
Notice how the input voltage is a 1kHz 10mV signal with a 10VDC offset. After the input capacitor the DC level is now ~870mV. The same can be seen at the output cap. The gain is around 20 (200mV / 10mV = 20)
Now if we remove the caps:
And look at the input/output waveforms:
Things have changed drastically - the transistor base is now at 10VDC, which means the emitter will be at around 8-9V (the usual 0.7V drop will be higher due to excessive current) and the emitter resistor current will be ~8.5V / 100 = ~90mA. The output is stuck at around 20mV higher than the emitter. The circuit has no gain.
Apart from coupling, capacitors are also used for things like emitter bypass (as Vlad mentions) Here is the first circuit again with an emitter bypass capacitor added:
And the simulation:
Notice the gain has increase to around 100 from the first circuit (1V / 10mV = 100) This is because the emitter resistor provides negative feedback and controls the gain in the first circuit. With the capacitor added, the DC is unaffected but the AC now sees a lower impedance path to ground (the capacitor) so the AC gain is increased. So the AC is "bypassed" to ground.
There are many other uses for a capacitor, but these are the main uses in a typical audio amplifier circuit (apart from power rail filtering of course)
The input and the external capacitors are used to block the dc supply. The emitter bypass capacitor is used to increase the AC gain of the amplifier by shunting the emitter resistance for AC . We should include the emitter resistance in the circuit because it gives better DC stability. Keeping the emitter resistance reduces the DC gain of the amplifier. so to increase the gain of the amplifier a capacitor is placed across emitter resistance.


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